Stream from NAS to my TV?

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I recently purchased a Synology NAS drive that's hidden away in another part of the house. So far it's been one of the best purchases I've ever made and I'm loving it, but would like to know the best way to stream files from the drive to my TV?

Currently with my laptop I just navigate to the folder and play through VLC Player with no trouble. How would I go about doing this but on the TV instead?

Cheers
 
Raspberry Pi would be a good and cheap shout as would a ChromeCast at around the same price.

Other options would be a HTPC but that going to cost more or a dedicated media player like a Boxee or WDTV player.

Are you connecting your laptop to the TV currently or just using the laptop as the player/screen?
 
Just using the laptop as the player when I sit in bed.

Is getting one of these Raspberry things up and running an arduous task?
 
Instal Plex from the Package Center and get yourself a NowTV box from Sky for £10, put the NowTV in developer mode and install RarFlix. Works brilliantly for me!
 
Think the NowTV does actually, You can set the bitrate for streaming as well, I use mine with an AppleTV currently, running PlexConnect on my server to serve up Plex via the trailers App.

Edit - NowTV is 720p output i think so no benefit streaming 1080p to it!
 
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wndsr said:
I recently purchased a Synology NAS drive that's hidden away in another part of the house. So far it's been one of the best purchases I've ever made and I'm loving it, but would like to know the best way to stream files from the drive to my TV?

Currently with my laptop I just navigate to the folder and play through VLC Player with no trouble. How would I go about doing this but on the TV instead?

Cheers
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What make/model TV is it your wanting to stream to?

I currently have a Panasonic 47" dt50 which streams everything fine via a synology nas.
 
How did you manage to get that running?

I own a 2012 Panasonic GT50 and the Smart TV touted so many features which ended up so abysmal that I spent 100 notes on cables to wire up my rig directly and now it's exceptional.

Are you using the Synology web browser streaming, or the built in windows media server access? The later was so awfully pixelated in my experience with only a few media file types appearing let alone playing.
 
trentlad said:
How did you manage to get that running?

I own a 2012 Panasonic GT50 and the Smart TV touted so many features which ended up so abysmal that I spent 100 notes on cables to wire up my rig directly and now it's exceptional.

Are you using the Synology web browser streaming, or the built in windows media server access? The later was so awfully pixelated in my experience with only a few media file types appearing let alone playing.
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Im running a Synology 212J, its running DSM 4.3 and I have media server package installed on the device. On the TV remote its just "viera tools" then select media server and it allows me to browse the contents on my nas. Pretty straight forward really. I would have thought the GT50 would have the same options on the TV.

EDIT: as for the way I'm playing it, its just running a Synology media server with DLNA enabled and the TV is finding DNLA devices I think. Then i just select tv/show/music and it plays. There has been a couple of odd ones that don't play at correct speed or no sound however I think that's a problem with very specific videos/music codecs. Otherwise its been great for 720-1080p videos.
 
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sja360 said:
What make/model TV is it your wanting to stream to?

I currently have a Panasonic 47" dt50 which streams everything fine via a synology nas.
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It's a Samsung UE32EH5000 which according to a very quick Google search does have an Ethernet port but it's not for streaming.
 
Pi gets my vote. I've done this before, but it is now just used as a mini NAS for my music that Sonos connects to.
 
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