Hi,
I’ve only recently bought my 8tb MyCloudMirror. Slowly getting through one or two teething problems I am having with it.
I have transferred all my movies and tv shows to my drive. Today I took my wife shopping and whilst she browsed I got myself ready to watch a tv show through the big fluffy cloud.
I logged onto my drive via the internet and selected a tv show to watch. It took 20 minutes for the program to open. I could see the progress bar moving slowly across Windows Media Player (I was watching it on my acer tablet).
I tried a music track and that played instantly. TV shows do not appear to stream but load the whole thing before playing.
I have read through the my cloud learning mirror centre and it said that I should turn on streaming through the dashboard/Settings/media and set to on.
When I did this, it would play music OK but when I attempted to play any kind of movie/TV show after around 3 minutes it advised that the media player was disconnected.
The only way I could then watch any movies/TV show was to turn streaming off and reset the drive.
Any ideas???
Regards
Paul
Manofmystery wrote:
I have read through the my cloud learning mirror centre and it said that I should turn on streaming through the dashboard/Settings/media and set to on.
When I did this, it would play music OK but when I attempted to play any kind of movie/TV show after around 3 minutes it advised that the media player was disconnected.
Hope you noticed in the settings it said DLNA Media Server where you enabled the media streaming. DLNA works on local network, not over the Internet from outside the network.
With suitable media it is possible to play stuff over the internet, at least on Android, using the mobile app (and quite probably too other platforms too - I’ve done it before using MP4 files to show movies and TV programs so that’s all I can speak about).
That said the main issue that I think you’re falling over is the speed of your network connection. I’ve only managed it using an extremely fast connection at work, if I try it elsewhere I just get lags, delays, buffering or non-connection somewhat like you sound to have hit. The music files are small so can be sent quite quickly, but compared to them movie files are massive and so basically won’t work unless your connection is extremely fast (both at home for the upload bit and locally for the download bit). And generally that won’t be what you get if you’re doing this whilst out shopping, unless you’re paying through the nose for 4G.
What Cybernut1 says is entirely correct though with regard to DLNA, which from what you describe is what you were also trying which as he says won’t work as that’s local network only. But you may be better off if you can use the relevant app or program, but given the network speeds required you’re probably better with local copies.
Thank you both for your answers. You have answered my question.
Looks like This will only benefit me for watching movies etc at home
Thanks again for taking the time to answer
Best wishes
Paul
