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User Guide LOOQS MeeBox Router
Using your MeeBox as a UPnP media server
Your MeeBox can stream media files (video, audio, or photos), wirelessly or through
Ethernet, to any UPnP-AV compliant media player or digital media adapter that is on your
local network. Examples of UPnP-AV media players or adapters include LOOQS
MeeCeiver, LOOQS MeeFrame, XBMC Media Center, and Windows Media Player (running
on Windows Vista or Windows 7). If you have a MeeCeiver, for example, you can stream
movies from MeeBox to MeeCeiver wirelessly and watch them on your TV.
The UPnP media server in your MeeBox will serve any media files that are present in a
special folder on your MeeBox’s internal hard drive. On Windows clients, the path of the
folder is
\\meebox\public\media
. On Mac OS, the folder’s path is
smb://meebox/public/media
. You can also access the media folder using FTP or SFTP at
the path
/mnt/ide3/public/media
.
The media folder contains three subfolders:
audio
,
photos
, and
video
. Any media files you
place in the
media
folder or any of its subfolders will be available to UPnP media players
on your local network.
The subfolders
audio
,
photos
, and
video
are there for your convenience only. You do not
need to use them. Even if you put all your media files directly in the
media
folder, or in
other subfolders of the
media
folder that you create, the media server will recognize and
serve them without problems. If you wish, you can rename the subfolders as desired, or
even delete them. However, please do not rename or delete the
media
folder itself.
The media server checks for new files in the
media
folder (and its subfolders) every five
minutes by default. You can change the refresh interval using the media server’s admin
interface (see
Managing the media server
, below). If you wish, you can also add other
folders on your MeeBox to the media server’s database, so that files in those folders will
also be available to UPnP media players on your network.
Copying files into the media folder
You can copy media files from your computer into the media folder using the same
methods you use to copy files to other locations on your MeeBox. For details, see
Using
your MeeBox as a network storage device
, below.
For example, to access the media folder through Windows’s built-in networking:
Tip
Different UPnP media players and adapters have
different ways of setting up access to UPnP
media servers. However, in general, your media
player should be able to “see” your MeeBox
media server as long as it is connected to the
same network. (If you have the router version of
MeeBox, the media player should be in your
MeeBox’s network.) Your MeeBox media server
will be identified as “meebox” in your media
player’s user interface.
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