Solved Networking a Blu Ray player

[Lol999]

Hi, new to the forum and hoping someone can be of help please!
I just bought a blu ray player with an ethernet port. I have assigned the player an IP address, connected it to my router and it confirms it has connected to the internet. What I would like to do is stream .mkv files to my blu ray player from my pc via the ethernet port. I am running windows security essentials and the windows firewall, nothing else.
However, I'm just stuck as to how to get my pc to "see" the blu ray player. I can ping it via a command line but need help to finish the job off.

thanks, Lol

 

[Johnathan Lyman]

It's hard to stream to devices that aren't built to stream to. Does your blu-ray player have DLNA capability?

 

[profdlp]

It's hard to stream to devices that aren't built to stream to. Does your blu-ray player have DLNA capability?

Good points.

What brand and model is your player, Lol999?

 

[Lol999]

thanks for the replies folks. research has shown that my player does NOT have dlna support. d'oh! probably taking it back today and swapping it for a different model that does.

thanks so far though.

 

[Lol999]

Bought a DLNA certified player. What a difference! Set up the network details, allowed permissions in MP, everything's great!

Thanks for your help.