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MY BOOK LIVE
USER MANUAL
PLAYING/STREAMING VIDEOS, PHOTOS, & MUSIC – 112
Playing/Streaming Videos, Photos, & Music
Media Server Overview
Media Server Settings
Media Types Supported
Media Storage
Accessing My Book Live from Media Players
Accessing My Book Live Using iTunes
Media Server Overview
My Book Live Personal Cloud Storage device is designed to serve as your home's
central media hub. It enables you to stream photos, music, and videos to your home
entertainment center and/or other computers on your home network.
The Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) is a group of consumer electronics,
computing industry, and mobile device companies that sets standards for product
compatibility, thus enabling users to share content in their home.
The DLNA Server searches for all the media stored in all shares on the My Book Live
connected to your home network. If you do not want DLNA to display specific media
files, place them in a private share that is set to disable media sharing.
The server is pre-set, so you can just transfer your multimedia content to the
respective shared Public folders (e.g., Photos, Music, Video) on your My Book Live
device and you are ready to stream and view content on your home entertainment
center, game consoles (for example, Xbox 360
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, PlayStation
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3, or DLNA
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1.5
Digital Media Adapters) and media services such as ITunes. For more information,
visit http://www.dlna.org.
Media Server Settings
The Media tab on the My Book Live dashboard enables you to define DLNA and
iTunes media settings so that you can enjoy media in every room in your house.
Note: DLNA and iTunes only work on your network.
DLNA Media Server
DLNA streams your music, photos, and videos to compatible devices in your home.
Playing media on a compatible device is easy.
The DLNA server searches for all the media stored on the My Book Live device
connected to your home network*. The server is pre-set, so you can just transfer
your multimedia content to the Public share on your My Book Live device, and you
are ready to stream and view content on your home entertainment center, game
consoles (for example, Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3), WD TV Live HD media player, or
DLNA 1.5 Digital Media Adapters), and other PCs on your home network. Visit
http://www.dlna.org for further information on DLNA.
* Media located outside of the My Book LIve device folders will also be indexed and available through the DLNA
player. If you do not want this media to be made available, place the media in a separate share, then turn off the
DLNA indexing for that share. See “Creating a New Share” on page 80.