I'm somewhat late to the game, but I need some suggestions for best course of action to put together my plan...I'm fairly certain these issues have been addressed in other places, but my limited knowledge is leaving most things as beyond me (reads as gibberish) and I don't know enough of what I'm looking for to search effectively. I'm happy to accept links to previous posts if that answers my situation.
I have an HP TouchScreen PC in my study permanently attached to a 1TB external HD full of movies (mostly .avi I think). I have a Sony55HX750 in the living room that I want to stream to. I have a wired connection with both the computer and the TV on the home network. What program/system should I use to manage the movies and is there anything specific I should for the TV to recognize them (the TV indicates that it supports DNLA, but I don't know much about that)? What I would love is a system that organizes and displays metadata for each movie on the computer side as well as the TV side...is this even an option? (I also have a WDTV Live Plus from a previous plan that I never flushed out before the old TV died...would that be better to use?) I recently attempt Plex as recommended by some users, but it looked significantly different than I expected and I couldn't figure out where to start.
Thanks for info and bearing with me...
I have an HP TouchScreen PC in my study permanently attached to a 1TB external HD full of movies (mostly .avi I think). I have a Sony55HX750 in the living room that I want to stream to. I have a wired connection with both the computer and the TV on the home network. What program/system should I use to manage the movies and is there anything specific I should for the TV to recognize them (the TV indicates that it supports DNLA, but I don't know much about that)? What I would love is a system that organizes and displays metadata for each movie on the computer side as well as the TV side...is this even an option? (I also have a WDTV Live Plus from a previous plan that I never flushed out before the old TV died...would that be better to use?) I recently attempt Plex as recommended by some users, but it looked significantly different than I expected and I couldn't figure out where to start.
Thanks for info and bearing with me...