Hello, I'm planning to stream videos from my computer to my tv, need some advice for this as I am completely new.

What are the equipments that I will need for this. Another problem that I am facing is that my wireless connection from my router won't reach my tv. Is there any extender for this?

Thanks Alot for the help.

wireless is too iffy for streaming videos, especially when you have higher quality videos.

My advice is to put the videos on an external HDD and get one of those media players (Seagate, WDTV etc)

Your TV have network capability?

some media players have ethernet network port, can play movie remotely located on other computer's harddisk

Both source and display must have a Upnp or DLNA.
In your PC, you must install media server software such media player, arcsoft, cyberlink etc..
Your TV will find the media server automatically.

If you are using windows 7, you must share your media library.
in windows 7 media player, you can found stream button, then enable allow devices play and remote control.
if media player found your upnp capable TV, right click on your selected media, and choose play to>your TV.
TV also capable to search Media that you already shared in network library.

Upnp or dlan not just stream to your TV, it also can stream music to your AVR, handphone, digital photo frame etc..
If you have iphone, samsung or nokia n series, you can control your dlna devices.
Use this phone to search movies from your pc and play it on your tv, search a picture from your network storage and display it on your photo frame.

PS: Ade jugak peti ais yg support DLNA ni, untuk apa? I dont Know...

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Ooooo... I see

Our mamak not so hi-tech.

Thanks Alot for the help!, I'm pretty interested in what ariff said. Not sure whether my current tv has networking capabilities. Shall check it out and so more research first.

Bro, what TV are you having, make and model number, that is capable of receiving stream vids?

why make life so complicated, DLNA and all

just buy realtek 1073 based media player and connect to any TV, even CRT TV, this setup can play movies from any network drive

Right on...thats why I just bought one.. PC is just too expensive way of doing things, moreover bulky.

If your PC is near your computer, maybe you can get a graphic card that support HDMI out and connect them with a HDMI cable, you will get better quality than streaming wireless, but of course, depends on your source as well.

PC is a computer, should be TV near the Computer..

This seems really interesting. I might go with this. My tv I'd pretty far from my computer, so I guess that's out.

I'm using my PS3 to scan videos/music/pictures on any computer in my house via wifi and stream them on TV that the PS3 connected to.

That wold be best option I guess. Media player can lot more than media renderer /receiver(your TV). It can become NAS, media server, media controller, torrent client and lot more.

But if you have a hundred of movies, thousand of musics, million of pictures, PC would be the best to managed it. Acryan and eaget would be good, HDX, popcorn hour and Dune would be great.

Typo... I mean if your PC is near your TV~

Buy the damn PS3 la, can do more than any media player these ppl mentioned.

Unless you have nice HTPC casing like this:-


Then you can place it near your TV as part of the whole AV system, but if you dont please keep that bulky CPU, keyboard, mouse away and stream anything in there using PS3.

This post has been edited by chokia: Nov 23 2010, 12:00 AM

Oh? Have they make PS3 able to watch mkv files without remux already?