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<article>
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<title> Video Streaming to TV, Casting to TV, Play Movie HOWTO
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<author>Alavoor Vasudevan (Al Dev) <url url="mailto:alavoor[at]gmail-dot-com">
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<date>v1.0, Feb 2019
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<abstract>
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How to cast and play videos, pictures, music on big screen TV (Television sets) from Linux
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desktop/laptop or mobile phones.
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And do Video streaming from Linux to big screen TVs like Samsung, Sanyo, Sony, Vizio
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and Panasonic television.
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</abstract>
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<toc>
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<sect> Introduction
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<p>
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This article gives information about how to cast videos to big screen TV (Television)
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from Linux desktop computer and also from your mobile phones.
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View videos, pictures, and play music on your Linux computer by projecting to a
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big screen TV (Television).
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Linux can cast the video, audio, pictures to TV (television screen) using DLNA.
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DLNA stands for
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<bf>Digital Living Network Alliance</bf>
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, the trade group founded by Sony in 2003 to define the interoperability
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guidelines that make this communication possible between Linux computer
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and TV.
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To use DLNA on your TV, you need to connect both, your TV and your
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smartphone or tablet to the same
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<bf>network</bf>. You can do this on both <bf>devices</bf> by
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going into their <bf>Network</bf>
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settings and searching for your wireless network.
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Select your home wireless network from this list and enter
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your WiFi network password.
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A modern AV receiver that supports DLNA can stream movies, music,
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and digital photos
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from a storage device attached to your home network to your smart TV.
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All DLNA-certified devices use Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) to discover
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and talk to each other on the network.
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<sect> MiniDLNA
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<p>
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DLNA is the only non-proprietary media serving technology and has decent device support.
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MiniDLNA is the most popular open source DLNA server.
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ReadyMedia
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<url url="http://minidlna.sourceforge.net">
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(formerly known as MiniDLNA) is a simple media server software, with
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the aim of being fully compliant with DLNA/UPnP-AV clients.
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It is developed by a NETGEAR employee for the ReadyNAS product line.
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Download ReadyMedia which has the latest code as compared with MiniDLNA.
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And it is same.
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Install the older MiniDLNA (use ReadyMedia instead)
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<tscreen><code>
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$ sudo apt-get update
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$ apt-cache search minidlna
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$ sudo apt-get -y install minidlna
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</code></tscreen>
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Edit /etc/minidlna.conf:
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<tscreen><code>
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media_dir=V,/var/lib/minidlna/videos
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# chown -R minidlna.minidlna /var/lib/minidlna
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# chmod a+r videos/*
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$ sudo service minidlna force-reload
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</code></tscreen>
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Switch on the TV (Television) and using the TV Remote press "Sources" button and you should see "Desktop-Linux"
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on the TV screen
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along with other sources like TV, Cable, DVD, Antenna. Select "Dekstop-Linux" and click Videos folder
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and then you should see the same files as in your linux computer. Pick one video file and play on TV.
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See also: Minidlna Debian wiki <url url="https://wiki.debian.org/minidlna">
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If you do not have smartTV like Samsung, Sony, Vizio, Panasonic and you have very
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old TV set which has only the HDMI port, then you have to buy a <bf>Dongle</bf>
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to enable DLNA on TV set.
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Purchase dongle from internet (ebay,amazon) like EzCast, MiraScreen,
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AnyCast M2 Plus WiFi Display etc.
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AnyCast M2 Plus WiFi Display Receiver is a Special Devices to project your Smart
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Phones / Tablet PC to another big screen devices with HDMI
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interface (such as, HDTV, Monitor & Projector, etc) through WiFi connection.
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And, it supports popular ScreenShare standards, such as, Miracast, DLNA
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and Airplay, can enhance your HDTV / Projector / Monitor with HDMI input socket.
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Moreover, The WiFi Display Receiver has more features such as, streaming video,
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web surfing, photo viewer, Internet video and more, excellent multi-display sharing.
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Cast your contents (Video, Game, Audio, Picture, App and File) in your
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Smart Phones / Linux PC / Tablet PC to another big screen devices with HDMI
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interface (such as, HDTV, Monitor & Projector, etc) by using
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Miracast, DLNA and AirPlay through WiFi connection.
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<sect> Streaming Video from Linux to TV set
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<p>
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<bf>Method 1:</bf>
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Websites like YouTube support the casting from Linux desktop PC to TV sets.
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<bf>IMPORTANT:</bf> Before you attempt below steps, you MUST power on
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your Television (TV) set and the TV must be
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connected to your local WiFi router or by ethernet wire to router.
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Also the Linux desktop PC must be connected to the same router which connects TV.
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Also must be running the DLNA service on Linux PC (see previous section).
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In Linux desktop, open web browser Google Chrome and open YouTube
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<url url="http://youtube.com">.
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And you will see the Cast icon at bottom right corner (rectangle with waves).
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This Cast icon in Linux web browser will show ONLY when your TV set is powered ON.
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Click on the cast icon and select the DLNA destination source to the TV set.
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On your TV screen, you will see a popup dialog which says Allow/Deny video.
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Using the TV remote pick Allow and now the TV screen will start playing the video.
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If you do not see the popup dialog you may want to keep clicking twice or reload
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the webbrowser and retry again. Sometimes, the TV plays video without any popup.
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Firefox browser currently does not support casting youtube out of the box.
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If you are using the Firefox browser, then you will need a Add-on like MagicCast
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<url url="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/magic-cast/">.
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Install MagicCast add-on to firefox browser and then you have to set the
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Device ID.
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Click on Firefox:Menu:Add-ons:Extensions:MagicCast:Preferences:Settings:Enter Device ID
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You should find out the Device ID displayed when you connect Mag setup box to TV.
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Note this device ID of setup box and enter this above.
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To use MagicCast, you need AuraHD or MAG set-top box and browser Chrome or Firefox.
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By installing the MAGic Cast extension in the browser and specifying the
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unique identifier of your set-top box in it, you will be able to send
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almost any video to the set-top box and watch it on the big screen.
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The MAGic Cast extension button turns blue if the page has a video to send.
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Click on the extension button and the video link will be sent to all
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the devices specified in the extension.
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This does not work for TV, to support TV, someone needs to enhance
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this magic-cast add-on to
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add support for smart TVs like Samsung and others devices.
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See also: Librecast <url url="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/librecast">
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<bf>Method 2:</bf>
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Download the "Command line Video downloader" package
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youtube-dl
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<url url="http://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/index.html">
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, is a popular command line tool for downloading videos from YouTube and other similar websites.
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<tscreen><code>
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$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nilarimogard/webupd8
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$ sudo apt-get update
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$ sudo apt-get install youtube-dl
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</code></tscreen>
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Change directory to where the minidlna videos directory is, one which is visible on TV screen.
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$ cd /var/lib/minidlna/videos
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$ youtube-dl http://VIDEO_URL
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Now you can play the video downloaded on TV screen.
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Other option is to download the video with web-browser plugins like Video-downloader.
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It can download video to linux box and using DLNA (see previous chapters) you can then
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play video.
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See also older deprecated movgrab
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<sect> Mobile phone
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<p>
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To stream content from your smartphone,
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you need to have a DLNA app
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installed on it. One of the most popular DLNA apps is BubbleUPnP, which
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can be downloaded from the Google Play Store for free. Some
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smartphones also come with pre-loaded DLNA apps.
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Or instead of BubbleUPnp, you can use the Youtube or chrome browser which has Cast icon.
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<sect1> UPnP
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<p>
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UPnP (which stands for Universal Plug and Play) is a feature that
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allows the devices on your home network to discover each other and
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access certain services. Often, this is used for streaming media
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between devices on a network.
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See also: List of UPnP AV media servers and clients
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<url url="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_UPnP_AV_media_servers_and_clients">
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<sect1>Using YouTube or Chrome webbrowser to cast
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<p>
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On phone open Youtube and open a video.
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Power on the TV.
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At the bottom right corner you will see Cast Icon (rectangle with waves)
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Click it and select the TV name and play.
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<sect1>Selecting a device
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<p>
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Once you have the BubbleUPnP app loaded on your smartphone, you are
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presented with a screen with four menus at the bottom - Now Playing,
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Playlist, Library and Devices. Before you select a file, you need to
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select a device that you want to stream to. You can access this list
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by clicking on Devices, present on the main screen of the app.
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Select your TV from the list of renderers. If you are streaming
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content from your handheld device, then you can select this too.
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If you have a separate network storage drive, you can choose to
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stream from it too.
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<sect1>Streaming media content to TV
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<p>
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Once you select the device, you need to select the content you want to
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play on it. You can access all your media by selecting first the
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source from where you want to play. BubbleUPnP segregates all your songs,
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videos and images into folders. You can click on the file you want to
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stream. Once you select the file, the app will start streaming it on to
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your TV. You can either select one file or create a playlist of your
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preference. You can also control the volume of the TV, with the help of
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the volume keys present on your phone. Skipping through the video or
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song is also possible. You can also use DLNA to stream photos to the TV.
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Some Smart TVs do not even need a router as a medium to stream media
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files from a smartphone. To do this, you need to have a smart TV and
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a smartphone that support Miracast. This technology uses Wi-Fi Direct
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to stream content and is great for use in short distances such as in
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a living room. Miracast also allows you to duplicate your smartphone
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screen on to your smart TV. This means, you can play movies, music
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and also play games and use apps on the large screen.
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</article>
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