

I hit "Start encoding," and after a few seconds for a relatively small video clip of less than a minute, I could play the file in MediaHome or see where it was saved on disk. You can choose a bunch of files to be placed in a recoding in a queue for batch operation. A slider below the target options let me choose quality, from smallest file size to largest.
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These included most popular smartphones and tablets, and consoles-iPhones, iPads, Samsung Galaxies, and Windows Phone 8 among them. When I right-clicked on a video in MediaHome and chose "Convert with Nero Recode" the app opened with my video on the right, and a list of target devices on the left. Video is probably the most important content for this treatment, since most smartphones and tablets have no problem displaying photos of any resolution or playing audio. You can drag-and-drop files onto its large target area at the top of its own program window, or open it from MediaHome. Nero Recode Recode is a key selling point for the suite: it's where you select your media and have it automatically reformatted to play on a different device. This worked easily with an Xbox in our labs, but playback was staggered, and when I set the video to repeat, it still only played once on the Xbox. MediaHome lets you set streaming quality and see which devices on your home network have access and remove them if you want. You can do this with Windows Media player, but MediaHome makes it much easier. In a similar way to photo viewing, the app shows info in the right side panel for the selected album or song-rating, play time, artist, genre, and so on.Īn interesting option in MediaHome is entered through the button that looks like a TV-media streaming, you can turn this on to stream anything managed by the program to any DLNA-capable device. When it comes to music, MediaHome can display album art, play the songs, and even point you to downloads of more music from the same artist. The app is also useful for when you plug USB storage: as well as importing the media, it can show you the devices' used and available storage graphically, along with metadata for each individual file. Playing Video and Music MediaHome plays video as well, and I was impressed that it had no trouble playing my 4K (aka Ultra HD) test video from a GoPro Hero III Black Edition.
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