win7/win8/8.1 How to create a wireless video player

Windows Media Player, a free player from Microsoft, is a component of Microsoft Windows, often referred to as "WMP," to support enhanced functionality through plugins. Starting with Win7, Windows Media Player 12 introduced the play to feature, but this feature can also be win8/win8.1 in Windows Media Player 12 for continuation and hardening. Now let's explore the support of new and old platforms such as win7/win8/8.1, how can a wireless audio-visual playback effect be customized?

Test object for Win 8.1 Pro

Test environment: Windows 8.1 Pro, joined to a WiFi hotspot network, and the remote computer to be tested.

Run the secpol.msc command

Change your network location from the original public network to a private network that supports sharing. For win8/win8.1 users, changing the network location is a little trickier than Win7, and you need to use the Run secpol.msc command to modify the Network List Manager policy in local security policies and choose your own network location to set it up.

As early as the WIN8 listing, we were more or less aware of some of the new features, and Microsoft is now determined to let the previously non-hyped play to wireless playback function to play a good performance. This remote playback feature allows you to wirelessly deliver movies or music to another compatible device without having to set up a relay point between devices.

The application of play to in WP8

To emphasize its ease-of-use, Microsoft explains from different directions that, for program developers, it is simple to embed specific program code to enable the remote playback of copyrighted music and movies. The play to feature allows users to play video, audio, or images from the computer's media library directly to the same network segment, LAN or other computer, TV or stereo on the WiFi, to achieve the effect of wireless playback, and easily create a home wireless audio-visual system.

The user selects the type of playback and the AV control interface on the remote dial-up interface, and the right side of the screen can call out a list of all compatible devices on the network.

Playing to Living TV

Although Microsoft does not elaborate on how to apply this feature to copyrighted media, and compared with the way the set-top box is built, it is doubtful that compatibility between devices will be a concern, although it allows software developers to write programs more flexibly, but a friend who has used DLNA should be able to appreciate the incompatibility between devices. But the idea of saving money to buy set-top boxes is a good deal for consumers.

Use play to on Windows Media play 12

Play to Purpose: In general, you can select files such as video or audio, pictures, and so on in the Windows Media Player 12 Library, if there is a device available in your network environment, such as a WiFi-enabled TV, Audio or another computer or tablet that has been added to your home network, you can use play to in the right-click menu to enable remote playback.

In front of us by running the secpol.msc command, open the local Security policy system, in the policy system, we need to find the Network List Manager policy, in the right position, we can see the current state, all the network connection situation.

Find the user's current network under the name, right click to open the corresponding network properties, so combined with the previous operation, we have found their own network location.

Find your network location

Set up all networks

Next, open the Control Panel, select network or Sharing Center, click "Change advanced sharing Settings" to set the media streaming feature in all networks. Turn on the media streaming function, all allow the required devices, such as you can see, the name of the media library or according to the user's use of the Microsoft account name is called the beginning of life, of course, users can also be changed to another name.

Allow all devices to access media

In this section, open the Control Panel and adjust the media sharing settings to allow all devices to access your shared media. So here we have built the prerequisites for play to. Next, let's talk about how to implement wireless audio and video operations.

Well, the last part of the article has been provided under the basic premise guarantee, into the wireless audio-visual build time. Now we can go back to the Windows Media Player player, switch to the Media Library interface, select the media streaming feature, tick two items "Allow remote control of my player", "Allow devices to play my media automatically".

Two permissible conditions

Allow remote control on the network

Play to find computer users

Select audio or images of popular files in your library, or even high-definition MKV videos can be played via play to function and played remotely on a wz-pc computer.

Play to another user's WMP player

MKV HD video is successfully played on the remote computer wz-pc, so that the remote playback function is successfully built. Users can experience the ability to play music and video remotely.

Note: If the play to media stream does not open a workaround: Ensure that the following system services are turned on: SSDP Discovery, Time Broker, UPnP Device host, and so on.