While Roku has media streaming enabled by default, this functionality lacks on Amazon Fire Tv Stick.

No need to look for Dvds or wait for it to load. One good use is to have all your Movies/TV DVDs ripped using DivX and then have them in your personal drive, eliminating the reliance on your Bluray/DVD player. I personally loved the option of casting anything directly from my windows media player. You would not normally set your Kodi install as both a Server and Client.While Netflix and Amazon have a ton of content, sometimes there’s a need to stream from your home media server. Then setup Clients to receive the UPnP video and music libraries from the Server.If you intend to use Kodi as the UPnP Server, then select the Kodi installation that has the fully scanned/scraped library that you would like shared to your other devices.Kodi UPnP is disabled by default and must be activated before use. You should be able to disable UPnP in your router, but still use UPnP on your local network. If your router has the UPnP setting enabled, then malicious actors may be able to access your network. You can only browse and play from the Browse Tree. Note: UPnP file sharing cannot be used to create a Kodi library on the client device, nor can you use any library features.

If using the Kodi UPnP Server, these browse tree nodes are based on the Kodi library nodes and you can create additional nodes in the Kodi server to expand the browse tree.

The browse tree can provide a series of nodes through which you can browse the content (year, title, actors, artists, albums etc).

The UPnP Server cotrols the appearance of what is displayed in the browse tree which varies between different UPnP servers.

It relies on the UPnP server to send a browse tree that will display on the client player.

The client player does not have direct access to the video and music files.

Kodi can be used as a UPnP Server that will stream its library contents to other players on the network, or it can be used as a UPnP Client that can receive music and video from a UPnP Server on the network.

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