Monday, October 17, 2011

How to Play Videos from Canon Camera to HDTV via DLNA?

Have you ever want to play your video from Canon on HDTV and share with your family? Do you know how to import Canon camera video to HDTV via DLNA? Now, this article will intro the detailed steps about this for you.

DLNA technology is a solution to makes us much effortless to share songs, videos, or other Medias among all of home entertainment devices. However, video from Canon camcorder always can not be natively accepted by DLNA, Such as MOD can not be played on HDTV via DLNA Streaming. In the case, what you need is to transcode formats to DLNA-compliant file formats for playback.

The supported file formats by DLNA:
Video: MPEG2 MPEG-1, MPEG-4, AVC, WMV
Audio: MP3, WMA9, LPCM AAC, AC-3, ATRAC 3plus,
Image: JPEG PNG,TIFF, GIF

Canon video Converter supports converting AVCHD, MTS, M2TS, MOD, MOV etc from Canon Camera and Camcorder to MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, WMV, AVC etc DLNA streaming compression. Then, you can import the converted Canon files on a DLNA-certified TV via DLNA.

Tips: AVCHD files encoded in MPEG-4/AVC that may be supported for streaming through DLNA. However, when you play different files, there would be buffering for loading each file. So you can merge or join the several AVCHD, MOD etc Canon video files into a big one with original quality with Canon video editor and then play on HDTV via DLNA.

Canon video Converter also can be act as DLNA video converter and convert all the common video to DLNA supported formats and then enjoy movies or music on all devices via DLNA, like iPad, iPhone, Galaxy s2 etc.

Tips: If you are now running Mac OS X, please refer to the Mac Canon Video Converter

Step by Step Play Canon Video on HDTV via DLNA

Step 1. Run video converter for Canon, and you can capture Canon videos from the camcorder connected to PC through the pop-up wizard. Then the videos on hard drive, just the “Add file ” and browse the folder with .mov, .mod, .mts, .m2ts files from hard drive.

Step 2. Select all the Canon files that you want to merge and then click the right mouse button-Merge, the Canon clips will be joined as a single file.

Step3: As HDTV likes MP4 files best, you can click Profile-Common video-mp4, choose “MP4″ as the output formats.

Step 4. Click the “Start” button, the video converter for HDTV will start combining short clips and converting Canon files to DLNA supported file.

Step 5: Enjoy Canon recordings on DLNA certified TV

1: Load Windows Media Player 12 and hit the big “Stream” button and check “Allow Internet access to home media…”

2: The Home Media Access dialog pops up. Before click on “Allow Internet access to home media”,associate your PC with an online ID account. Click “Link an online ID” to start the process and input your Windows Live ID and password..

3: Simply right click on the video file you’d like to stream, choose your TV under “Play To” option in Windows Media Player.

Now the wired DLNA HDTV should ask if you want to play the video. Press “Allow” and your video should start streaming to your TV.

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