Video Playback
Video Station comes with an embedded player which allows you play videos with once the package is installed on your Synology DiskStation.
In addition to playing videos on your local computer, you can also stream multimedia contents to DLNA/UPnP-compliant DMAs or AirPlay compatible devices for video playback. Before you start, please make sure you have been granted the AirPlay/UPnP Renderer privilege.
Term Explanations:
- DLNA: Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) is a cross-industry organization of consumer electronics, computing industry, and mobile electronics manufacturers. DLNA actively promotes wired and wireless networks of consumer electronics products, personal computers, and mobile devices, in the home and on the road, for sharing new digital media and content services. Examples include home devices, such as TVs/stereo systems and Sony PlayStation3/Xbox 360.
- UPnP: Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) is a collaboration of protocols that allows a wide range of devices to be interconnected, both wired and wireless, and to work seamlessly with one another by establishing network services, of which media streaming is the most popular in that media files can be directly streamed to TV and no transfer of files is required for playback. UPnP supports zero configuration networking. In other words, it spares users the trouble of setting up networking configurations as it is automatically completed once UPnP devices are connected to a network, which exhibits the concept of “plug-n-play” technology.
- DMA: DMA, commonly known as digital media adapter, is a home entertainment device that can connect to a home network to retrieve digital media files (such as music, photos, or video) from a personal computer or other networked media server and play them back on DLNA/UPnP-enabled devices.
Play Videos
Playing videos with Video Station is fun and intuitive. For better viewing quality and faster transcoding speed, it is recommended you install VLC media player (Windows, Linux) on your local computer for video playback.
To play videos:
- Select any video clip you want to play, and do either of the following to open the Video Player window:
- Click the play icon at the bottom-right corner of the video image.
- Click the Action drop-down menu, and click Play.
- The video should start playing right away. If not, please make sure you have installed VLC media player on your local computer.
- At the bottom of Video Player, do the following to control video playback:
- Click Play/Pause to play or pause the video.
- Click Next or Previous to play the next or previous video episode (if available).
- Click Stop to stop playback.
- Use the Progress bar to skip to any point you want.
- Use the Volume bar to adjust the volume.
- Click Settings to select a video playback quality and audio track.
- Click Subtitles to choose whether you want to play videos with subtitles.
- If you have a subtitle file (in .srt format) with the same name as the video and both are located in the same folder, you can choose External subtitles.
- If your video contains embedded subtitles, you should be able to see the subtitles during video playback. Select the embedded subtitles appearing with its language code onscreen.
- Select No subtitles if you do not want the video to display subtitles.
- Click Player to select a device to stream videos to.
Note:
HDCP (High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection) support is required if you want to stream videos to Apple TV for playback.
- Click Fullscreen to play videos in the full-screen mode.
Note:
Subtitles may not be displayed when you play videos in the full-screen mode with VLC media player.
More Information:
- While installing VLC Player, make sure you have ticked Mozilla plugin and ActiveX plugin.
- VLC is supported by the following browsers:
- Windows: Internet Explorer, Firefox, Google Chrome
- VLC does not support HTTPS streaming.
- If VLC is not installed on your local computer, Video Player will play videos supported by HTML5. Please refer to here for HTML5 videos supported by different web browsers.
- If VLC is installed on your computer, and you are connecting to DSM with a supported web browser, Video Player supports the following formats:
avi, dat, mkv, vob, asf, wmv, mov, qt, divx, flv, swf, rm, rmvb, mpg, mpeg, mpeg1, m1v, mpeg2, m2v, mp2, dvr-ms, m2ts, mts, m2t, ts, tp, trp, mpeg4, m4v, mp4, 3g2, 3gp, 3gp2, ogv, webm, mpe, xvid
- Following formats are not supported by VLC plugin for video seeking: avi, ts, trp, tp, m2t, m2ts, mts