CyberLink PowerDVD 11 User Manual page 57

Setting Up Device
Before you can use a portable device to remotely control the play back of media,
you must first:
connect the computer with CyberLink PowerDVD 11 installed to a wireless
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network.
connect the portable Android device or iPhone to the same wireless network.
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download the free PowerDVD Remote app from the online store (Android App
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Market, iPhone App Store).
install the PowerDVD Remote app on your portable device.
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on the computer connected to the wireless network, click on the Device tab of
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CyberLink PowerDVD. You must enter the Passcode provided on this tab into
the device running PowerDVD Remote, so that it can control CyberLink
PowerDVD on this computer.
Note: if required, click Change to generate a new Passcode for the connected device.
Playing Media with PowerDVD Remote
Once you have set up your portable device by connecting it to the wireless
network and installing PowerDVD Remote, you can use it to control the playback
of media on a server on the network or on the device itself.
To remotely control the playback of media with PowerDVD Remote, do this:
1. Open the CyberLink PowerDVD program on the computer you want to play the
media on.
2. Launch the PowerDVD Remote app on your portable device. PowerDVD
Remote will search for and find all the media servers connected to the network
it is connected to.
3. Select the server from the list (the name of the computer you launched
CyberLink PowerDVD on) to connect to it.
4. If required, enter the four digit password to access the media server. PowerDVD
Remote displays the Modules window.
5. In the Modules window of PowerDVD Remote, you can do the following:
select Movie to access and play back movie discs on the Movie tab of the
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computer running CyberLink PowerDVD.
select Video to access and play back video files on the Video tab of the
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computer running CyberLink PowerDVD.
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