Asus MyNet – Stream Videos from Windows Media Player to Eee Pad Transformer with MyNet and DLNA

The ASUS Eee Pad Transformer has a speedy Nvidia Tegra 2 dual-core 1.0GHz dual-core processor, good for multitasking, e-mail and calendar notifications. And there are HDMI out for HD video and mirroring. With preloaded streaming app MyNet, the Eee Pad is ready to play streaming media including videos, music and pictures. Streaming technology makes it possible for us to watch movies on Eee Pad Transformer without downloading a copy to the tab. Play HD videos or music on any home network devices such as the HDTV monitor or desktop PCs for an even better experience from the Eee Pad Transformer.

The ASUS Eee Pad Transformer is DLNA-enabled, so you need to put streaming media onto a DLNA-based server, which could be a DLNA-based Windows 7 Desktop, a self-assembly HTPC, Home server or any other DLNA compliant devices. To stream movies to ASUS Eee Pad Transformer smoothly, you need good network condition. If the network conditions don’t provide the bandwidth to support the video bit rate setting that you’ve specified, you’ll see the video pause from time to time. A broadband speed of 2.5 Mbps or more is recommended for streaming movies, 10 Mbps for High Definition content. Besides, you also need to have corresponding clients and media streaming apps installed and configured properly before you could use ASUS Eee Pad Transformer to play movies from DLNA compliant media server.

Guide: Use ASUS Eee Pad Transformer to play movies from Windows Media Player with MyNet

With MyNet preinstalled, you can play audio/video files from or to your DLNA compliant Windows PC. A short workflow for your reference:

1. Ensure that your Eee Pad and source PC have connected to the same wireless access point.

2. Click and enable Allow remote control of my Player and Automatically devices to play my media in the Media Player on the PC.

3. Start up MyNet, and select your PC on the left (source) and your Eee Pad Transformer on the top right cornner(target).

4. Switch the file type on the top and select the movies you’d like to play.

Note: MyNet only works with Windows Media Player 11 or later version.

By ripping Blu-ray to Windows Media Player, you can play all your BD movies to ASUS Eee Pad Transformer from WMP.

In case of choppy playback issues when streaming 1080p movies to ASUS Eee Pad Transformer…

Choppy playback can be cause by

Low bandwidth

Sending large amounts of video and audio data over the Internet requires large bandwidths. When network conditions don’t provide the bandwidth to support the video bit rate setting that you’ve specified, it results in choppy playback. Under this circumstance you need to increase the bandwidth or lower the video bitrate. Pavtube Blu-ray Video Converter Ultimate is recommended for you to cut down video bitrate because it not only compresses 1080p movies to lower bitrate with good quality, but also rips copy-protected Blu-ray Discs and DVDs to 1080p movies for home movie sharing.

- Find a guide of putting Blu-ray and DVD movies to Eee Pad

- Download a trial of Pavtube Blu-ray Video Converter Ultimate

High Quality

Although the ASUS Eee Pad Transformer plays 1080p movies, it can’t handle high-quality 1080p movies well. When we play local videos of 8mbps or better, the motion becomes choppy on Eee Pad. Again you need to decrease the video bitrate to get smooth playback.

RAM

Asus Eee Pad Transformer has a 1GB RAM, while 2GB or more of available memory (RAM) is recommended for playing streaming media. That’s to say, Eee Pad’s is not quite good for playing high-definition 1080p contents due to limited RAM.

Network connections

USB adapters make your computer work harder, stealing capacity that’s needed for smooth playback of content. Streaming content in HD uses more network capacity than other types of connections and we recommend that you avoid using USB-connected WiFi network adapters.

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