Chapter 15: Manage Media Server And Itunes Service; Manage Dlna Media Server - Synology DiskStation User Manual

Manage Media Server and iTunes
Chapter 15:
Service
Synology DiskStation can become a multimedia server on the local area network, allowing computers (using
Windows Media Player or iTunes) and DLNA/UPnP home devices (such as stereo system or TV set) to play its
multimedia contents.
This chapter explains how to stream multimedia contents from Synology DiskStation to your computer or other
DLNA/UPnP home devices.

Manage DLNA Media Server

Go to Main Menu > Control Panel
users can browse the multimedia contents on Synology DiskStation with a DLNA/UPnP home device, also known
as Digital Media Adapter (DMA).
The following shared folders will be accessed by DMA Devices:

photo

video

music
Note: You can play the following multimedia file formats on Synology DiskStation with DLNA/UPnP enabled DMA:
 Audio: AAC, FLAC, M4A, MP3, Ogg Vorbis, PCM, WAV, WMA, WMA VBR, WMA PRO, WMA Lossless
 Image: BMP, JPG (jpe, jpeg), GIF, ICO, PNG, PSD, TIF (tiff), UFO, RAW (arw, srf, sr2, dcr, k25, kdc, cr2, crw, nef,
mrw, ptx, pef, raf, 3fr, erf, mef, mos, orf, rw2, dng, x3f)
 Video: 3GP, 3G2, ASF, AVI, DAT, DivX, DVR-MS, ISO, M2T, M2TS, M4V, MKV, MP4, MPEG1, MPEG2, MPEG4,
MTS, MOV, QT, SWF, TP, TRP, TS, VOB, WMV, XviD, RV30, RV40, AC3, AMR, WMA3
 Playlist: M3U, WPL
 Subtitles: srt, psb, smi, ass, ssa, sub, idx, ifo (x07 Series: DSM v2.0.3 - 0451 and onward; x06 Series: DSM v2.0.3
- 0430 and onward)
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> Media Server to enable DLNA/UPnP media server. After it is enabled,
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