Shares and Features

Windows shares

As soon as you create a Windows shares with guest right it is possible to access files on your computer using the PlayonHD! mini's browser. The only restraint is that you have to configure your workgroup as "WORKGROUP" otherwise accessing files can become quite a challenge. Unfortunately with one system we had problems with the shares. Windows 7 was on this computer and it was in a homegroup. Although the workgroup was set to "WORKGROUP" we simply couldn't access the share. To be honest we've been a bit astonished that this small device is capable of playing 1080p movies smoothly. As soon as the movie files are bigger than 8 GByte we recognized that from time to time there is stuttering but fortunately it isn't that bad and it can be tolerated.

NAS functionality

If you attach an external hard drive to the PlayonHD! mini you can access it using you PC. Configuring and accessing the NAS functionality is piece of cake. It is also possible to connect to a NAS which already exists in your network. To do so you open the Playon's browser and select NAS.

External hard drive

We also connected a FAT32 formatted 250 GByte hard drive to the PlayonHD! on which we had music and movie files. It was possible to play the files without experiencing any stuttering.