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How to put your movies on your media server

31.08.2012
I have a huge movie collection. It used to all be on VHS tapes, then I moved to DVDs, and now I'm slowly moving to Blu-Ray. That's all well and good, but along the way I decided I liked the convenience of making my hundreds of movies accessible from a single hard drive instead. Does this sound good to you? Here's how you, too, can put twenty boxes of DVDs into a single 2TB hard drive.

Before you start any of this you need a media server and a media extender. A media server is a program, such as , , or , that enables you to "broadcast" your videos to other computers and media extenders. A media extender, in turn, is just a device, like an , the and most 2011 and newer Blu-Ray DVD players, such as a , that lets you view video from your media server on your TV.

Most, but not all, of these programs and devices support one version or another of the Universal Plug and Play Forum's () Digital Living Network Alliance (). In theory any DLNA server can transmit to any DLNA media extender.