When you turn on Media Sharing for the Music shared folder, you can access your music from devices that support Windows Media Connect. You can stream videos to an Xbox 360 or to a computer by using Windows Media Player. Your server can be used to store and stream large collections of videos and recorded TV shows to your computers or other playback devices on your network. There may be times when you want to do the following: Many people store music, video, and pictures in shared folders in Windows Server Essentials. Why would I want to stream my digital media? For information about the digital media types that are supported by Windows Media Player, see File types supported by Windows Media Player. After digital media is encoded, it can be easily manipulated, distributed, and played by computers, and it is easily transmitted over computer networks.Įxamples of digital media types include: Windows Media Audio (WMA), Windows Media Video (WMV), MP3, JPEG, and AVI. Encoding content involves converting audio and video input to a digital media file such as a Windows Media file. To add the media streaming functionality in these versions, download and install the Windows Server Essentials Media Pack from the Microsoft Download Center.Īllow or restrict access to a media library on the serverĮnable media devices that use the Server Message Block (SMB) protocol to access shared files on the serverĬommon processors and the video profiles they supportĭigital media refers to audio, video, and photo content that has been encoded (digitally compressed).

By default, the media streaming functionality is unavailable in Windows Server Essentials and Windows Server 2012 R2 with the Windows Server Essentials Experience role installed.

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