Home Media Sharing

Introduction

In cases where media and content is not shared in the cloud it is a somewhat common desire to share media and content between devices on a home network. This may be through a dedicated media server, or peer to peer sharing between devices. A device may be a content consumer, controller, or server.

Designers

William Jon McCann

Objectives

Primary

• To not interfere with the primary objectives of online sharing
• Display and consume (view, play, read) media content from home media servers
  • Show photos in Photo app automatically
• Send media content to a known media renderer/player
  • Display photos, videos on a TV
  • Print photos
• Store media content on a known media server device
  • Store/import photos from an attached camera to the server
  • Automatically store new music purchases/dowloads on the server
• Cache / download media content from a known media server device
  • Store photos for offline use on a laptop

Secondary

• Serve media content from the local device to devices on the home network

Non Goals

• Serve media content to all consumers on any network

Relevant Art

Discussion

Tentative Design

Comments

See Also

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Living_Network_Alliance

• http://www.dlna.org/digital_living/how_it_works/

Apple

• http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3819

• http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4620

Windows

• http://blogs.msdn.com/b/e7/archive/2008/12/30/at-home-with-homegroup-in-windows-7.aspx

• http://blogs.msdn.com/b/e7/archive/2009/05/12/media-streaming-with-windows-7.aspx

Other

• http://www.samsung.com/global/allshare/pcsw/