Cartoony 0 Posted November 30, 2014 Posted November 30, 2014 Wondering whether you could help out a newbie. I've read how to install stuff like plex etc on the nowTV box, but I wondered whether someone could point me in the right direction please..... I have a Buffalo NAS drive with video content on it, & it has a built in DLNA server. I can play stuff from it on my smart TV over my LAN. Can someone please advise the best thing to install on the nowTV box so that I can play content from the NAS drive? Help much appreciated.
Luke 42077 Posted November 30, 2014 Posted November 30, 2014 There must be some standalone roku apps that can browse dlna servers. You'll have to search the store. You can install our channel of course, but it will require installing our server app on another machine (which will bring benefits).
Cartoony 0 Posted November 30, 2014 Author Posted November 30, 2014 Don't know what 'our channel' is, but as you say it would require your server app, wouldn't that mean I would need a PC to be on to run the server? I would like to play files directly from the NAS.
Luke 42077 Posted November 30, 2014 Posted November 30, 2014 well we're working on getting the server to run directly on a NAS, but we're not there yet. in the meantime we support windows, linux and mac so there are some choices.
Cartoony 0 Posted November 30, 2014 Author Posted November 30, 2014 Thanks. Are you able to advise on plex, rarflix or media player? Can any of them see DLNA shares?
Luke 42077 Posted November 30, 2014 Posted November 30, 2014 you'll have to go ask them. they all require server installations too i know.
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