How to get Wifi speaker working

kelbal

Hi, I just got a Wifi DLNA enabled speaker. It's up on my network and my PC can see it. I can right click on a media file and select "cast to" and this does work. However I'd like to use the speaker as if its a normal speaker, i.e. when playing youtube videos or movies the video is on my laptop screen but the audio goes to my new speaker. I can't seem to figure out how to get the new speaker to appear as a regular audio output in my devices.
Any help appreciated.

akaSol

If your using WMP (play to in windows) forget playing anything other MP3 or WMA to stream to the DNLA player. If its OGG/FLAC etc try FOOBAR.

The Youtube you could try Plex or Twonky to stream video (audio).

~Sol

kelbal

akaSol wrote: »

If your using WMP (play to in windows) forget playing anything other MP3 or WMA to stream to the DNLA player. If its OGG/FLAC etc try FOOBAR.

The Youtube you could try Plex or Twonky to stream video (audio).

~Sol

Thanks a mil Sol, but what exactly do i click on to get wmp to do the stream? Will have a look at the other suggestions for youtube

akaSol

kelbal wrote: »

Thanks a mil Sol, but what exactly do i click on to get wmp to do the stream? Will have a look at the other suggestions for youtube

If its on the network it should come up as a receivable source , so right click the mp3(s) select "Play to" and the select the speaker. LINK


~Sol

kelbal

akaSol wrote: »

If its on the network it should come up as a receivable source , so right click the mp3(s) select "Play to" and the select the speaker. LINK


~Sol

Guess you're on windows 7? I'm on Windows 10, and its called "Cast to device" instead. The problem with this is that it sends the whole stream to the device - so if I'm trying to play a video file (.avi for example) the audio plays on the speaker fine, but the video doesn't show on my laptop

Riesen_Meal

kelbal wrote: »

Guess you're on windows 7? I'm on Windows 10, and its called "Cast to device" instead. The problem with this is that it sends the whole stream to the device - so if I'm trying to play a video file (.avi for example) the audio plays on the speaker fine, but the video doesn't show on my laptop

You got codecs installed for video on Win 10?

Try VLC if you don't

akaSol

kelbal wrote: »

Guess you're on windows 7? I'm on Windows 10, and its called "Cast to device" instead. The problem with this is that it sends the whole stream to the device - so if I'm trying to play a video file (.avi for example) the audio plays on the speaker fine, but the video doesn't show on my laptop

The biggest issue is dnla. In this case it's doing exactly what it's supposed to do : play audio.
I suppose you could create a unified audio+video file in VLC, using the desktop to play video but audio be sent to the player. Or create two instances of the AVI one to stream , one to watch. In this case your highly likely to get delay.

~Sol

kelbal

Sounds quite tricky! I did find an app called Jamcast which works to an extent, but there's a delay of about 2 seconds between the video and the audio which is useless. I thought this would have been straightforward enough:ermm: