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DLNA-certified Android Tablets -- Share your entire media library wirelessly

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There's the TV and digital video recorder in your family room. You have a PC and a tablet running Android such as Asus Eee Pad Transformer, along with a network attached storage device(NAS). Then it takes only two steps to listen to music or watch movies on your TV/PC/tablet: 1. Transfer the recorded or other media to the NAS; 2. Select your media file that is automatically detected by your digital media player(DMP) for playback, as long as they are all DLNA-certified devices.

 

The NAS here is described as a digital media server(DMS). It streams media files to DMP, either wired or wirelessly. As for PC or tablets, they can be both DMS and DMP -- if all required apps are installed. In addition, you may use your PC or Eee Pad Transformer to remote control your TV to play movies on the NAS, if they are all properly connected to each other via local network and have the third-party DLNA apps set correctly. Currently all personal computers running Windows, Linux or Mac OS X are able to be turned a DMS or DMP as there are programs for all the three platform, while tablets running Android only are available for such app. (Motorola Xoom, Samsung Galaxy Tab, Asus Eee Pad Transformer, etc.)


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The DLNA has a protocol for certified devices on required and optional media formats support to achieve a baseline for network interoperability, including image, audio and video with audio (AV). DLNA requirements on media format support apply to media content that passes over the home network from a DMS or M-DMS device to a DMP or M-DMP device. Table 1 and Table 2 show the current set of required formats and optional formats as defined in the DLNA guidelines. The network interoperability model for media formats is as follows:

 

  • All DMS, DMP, DMR, DMC, and DMPr devices, and their counterpart MHD devices, must support all formats designated in Table 1 and Table 2 as required for any of the media classes and device category they support. In the addition, all DMS/M-DMS and DMP/M-DMP/M-DMD devices may support any additional formats designated as optional for any of the media classes they support.

  • Any DMP, M-DMP, DMR, M-DMD and DMPr device must be able to receive content from any DMS or M-DMS device. A DMS or M-DMS device may stream content in its native format if the receiving device supports such native format. Otherwise, that DMS or M-DMS device should transcode the native format to one of the applicable required formats or to a format understood by the rendering device.
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    Table 1. DLNA Media formats for Home Devices

    Media Formats

    Required Formats Set

    Optional Formats Set

    Imaging

    JPEG

    GIF, TIFF, PNG

    Audio

    LPCM (2 channel)

    MP3, WMA9, AC-3, AAC, ATRAC3plus

    Video

    MPEG2

    MPEG1, MPEG4, WMV9

    Table 2. DLNA Media formats for Mobile/Handheld Devices

    Media Formats

    Required Formats Set

    Optional Formats Set

    Imaging

    JPEG

    GIF, TIFF, PNG

    Audio

    MP3 and MPEG4 AAC LC

    MPEG4 (HE AAC, AAC LTP, BSAC), AMR, ATRAC3plus, G.726, WMA, LPCM

    Video

    MPEG4 AVC (AAC LC Assoc Audio)

    VC1, H.263, MPEG4 part 2, MPEG2, MPEG4 AVC (BSAC or other for Assoc. Audio)

    Above tables are referred here.

     

    Hope the article DLNA-certified Android Tablets -- Share your entire media library wirelessly helps. Thanks for reading.

     

    See also:
    How to Activate AllShare and Customize the DLNA Feature of Samsung Galaxy S2?
    DLNA Media Sharing from PC to PS3 with Best Video Quality
    Stream/Play Droid X Movies and Music to DLNA Certified Devices
    Stream/Watch Galaxy S2 Recorded Videos on Sony Bravia DLNA Equired TV
    Stream videos and audios from Droid X to PS3 via DLNA

     

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