Now, select Videos in Content type window.ħ. In Samsung Smart TVs you may need to press Source button of your remote to see the available network.Ħ. You will see available network on your TV Screen. Turn on your TV and make sure it is connected to your router. You can see the exact location in the screenshot below. Now, put a video file in “My Video” folder. Then dialog box select select “Allow all computer and media devices option. In Control Panel -> Network and Internet -> HomeGroup location select Choose media streaming options…ģ. Now, create a HomeGroup from your Windows 7 PC. My connection between Windows 7 PC and Router is a wireless connection, where I am using an Ethernet cable to join Smart TV and Router.Ģ. Here I am showing two different physical connections. Steps to stream video from Windows 7 PC to DLNA enabled TVġ. These two LAN segments can be two wireless links, One Ethernet link and One Wireless link or two Ethernet Links. The Router or the Bridge will do the Bridging action. We need to create a LAN segment between Windows 7 PC and Router (or modem or bridge) and another LAN segment between SMART TV and the Router. Without going into the depth of these Networking devices, Let’s Discuss how can we create connection between the Windows 7 PC and the Smart TV. So, you can perform the following steps with a router or a bridge.

In this article we will need at least a two layer switch (a bridge). It converts the incoming analogue signal to digital signal and sends that signal to your computer and again converts the digital signal (coming from your computer) to analogue signal. Modem stands for (modulator + demodulator). If you are using a Wi-Fi router, you don’t need to think about number of ports.īefore getting into the steps, I just want to clear one thing that, Modem and Routers are not same things. You will need a Router (or you can say a modem having multiple ports). So, in this article I am just summing up the steps that you need to perform to stream a video file to your DLNA enabled Smart TV from your Windows 7 PC. If you are using Windows 7, you may get confused and face different problems during the setting up of connection between your Smart TV and your Windows 7 PC. I have already discussed How to connect DLNA enabled Smart TV with Windows 8. This article will show you how to stream videos from Windows 7 PC to Dlna supported Smart TV.

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