- Works as a DLNA-compliant Digital Media Server (DMS) and streams multimedia to devices on the same network
- Allows browsing media files in the indexed folder on your DLNA-certified devices with configurable browsing settings
Media Server
Features
Specifications
- Supports assigning shared folders or sub-folders as indexed folders (configurable in DSM Control Panel > Indexing Service) to browse media files on devices
- Automatic selection of network interface according to the network you are located on
- Adjustable quality of thumbnails created for browsing photos and videos
- Integration of the video information retrieved by Video Station into DLNA menus
- Device lists to restrict the access of devices on LAN and to apply the settings of predefined profiles
- Customizable DLNA menus with the choices of preferable languages and styles
- Configurable browsing settings for file display formats and order
- Customizable MIME types that help your devices identify file formats
- Supported audio formats: AIFF, APE, DSD, FLAC, M4A, Apple Lossless, MP3, Ogg Vorbis, PCM, WAV, WMA, WMA VBR, WMA PRO, WMA Lossless
- Supported video formats: 3GP, 3G2, ASF, AVI, DivX, DVR-MS, FLV, ISO, M2T, M2TS, M4V, MKV, MP4, MPEG1, MPEG2, MPEG4, MTS, MOV, QT, SWF, TP, TRP, TS, VOB, WMV, XviD, RMVB
- Supported image formats: BMP, JPG (jpg, jpeg), GIF, ICO, PNG, PSD, TIF (tiff), UFO
- Supports streaming MKV videos (H.264 video remux) for SONY TV and PS3
- Supports streaming APE/FLAC/OGG/AIFF/ALAC audios
- Supports converting to ASF videos up to 480p for XBOX 360, or to TS videos up to 1080p for other DMA
- The file conversion capability may vary depending on the model (See here)
- Supports backing up and restoring package configuration via Hyper Backup-
Limitations
- The video information integration feature is only available on the specific models which support Video Station
- The video conversion feature will be discontinued on DSM 7.2.2 and above due to the wide range of media formats supported on most end devices. This change aims to reduce unnecessary resource usage and enhance system efficiency