HP LX195 HP LX195 MediaSmart Server - User Guide - Page 76

HP MediaSmart Server User's Guide Your Server has a Digital Media Server called TwonkyMedia and a Web server. TwonkyMedia prepares your media for streaming and the Web server streams media to the Internet where your computer can play it on a Web browser. Streaming to iTunes You can listen to the music files from your HP MediaSmart Server using iTunes. You cannot stream photos or videos to iTunes, only music files. iTunes can stream DRMprotected media. How Media Streaming Works Streaming Media Servers The HP MediaSmart Server includes three types of servers. These servers stream media from the HP MediaSmart Server to your devices: • Web Server-Streams media to the Internet where you can access it from any computer that has a Web browser • Digital Media Servers-Your Server has two Digital Media Servers: • Packet Video's TwonkyMedia-Prepares your media for the Web server to stream to the Internet and streams media to Digital Media Receivers (DMR) in your home. We strongly recommend that you use TwonkyMedia. TwonkyMedia is enabled by default in the HP MediaSmart Server. TwonkyMedia can stream media to remote locations and it can stream most file types. • Windows Media Connect-Streams to DMRs. Windows Media Connect cannot stream to a Web server. It cannot stream as many file types as TwonkyMedia and it is disabled by default in the HP MediaSmart Server. • Server for iTunes-Streams to iTunes applications on the computers in your network. This server is included in your MediaSmart Server. It looks like a new device to your iTunes application, but it does not use one of your iTunes licenses. The figure below shows how these servers take media from the disk on your HP MediaSmart Server and stream it to your various receivers. 70