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Sharing Content on your Thomson Gateway
8.2 The UPnP AV Media Server
Introduction
Your Thomson Gateway has a built-in DLNA-certified UPnP AV media server. This section describes how to
use and configure this media server.
UPnP AV
UPnP AV (AV stands for Audio and Video) is a protocol especially designed to share media files on your local
network .
DLNA-certified
The Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) is an organisation that imposes requirements to ensure the
interoperatability of your media devices and standardize the communication between them.
Buying a DLNA-certified device like the Thomson Gateway guarantees you that it will seamlessly integrate
with your other DLNA-certified devices.
To allow you to access your media in a quick and easy way, the Thomson Gateway scans your storage device
for meta data information (for example, title, artist, album) and stores it in a database. When you are looking
for a file, the Thomson Gateway can simply query the database instead of having to go through all the files.
UPnP AV network components
A UPnP AV network consists of the following components:
 The UPnP AV server is directly connected to your media files and makes them available on the network.
In your network the Thomson Gateway will fulfil this role.

The UPnP AV client is a software application or hardware device that allows you to play or view the
media files provided by your UPnP AV media server.
This database will only be created if the following conditions are met:

Your disk or partition must have at least 250MB of free space
 Your disk or partition must not be read-only.