Recently I bought an LG OLED TV, which runs WebOS. On the main 'dashboard', there's an item called 'Storage', and it has a box 'Media Server' and shows the name of my QNAP NAS. When I select it, it offers two things; 'Photo & Video' and 'Music'. If I choose 'Photo & Video', it tells me that there are 432 Video items, and 45 photo items. If I select the 'Videos' item, I get a massive dump of thumbnails for every single video stored on my QNAP. And from those thumbnails, I can play any video I want. (For background, I've had this NAS for years, and mainly used it for file storage, but did dabble with using it as a Plex server years ago - which is why all my movies are on it - but abandoned Plex for various reasons, though it did work; Plex has long since been removed).
So my questions are:
- I didn't load anything special on the LG TV; is there anything special running on the QNAP that is enabling this? I played around, years ago, with things like 'Video Station', and I currently have something called 'Multimedia Station' installed; it shows that 'Multimedia Services' are enabled, and it shows that Indexing and thumbnail generation have occurred. Further, Video Station is shown as disabled, but 'DLNA' is enabled, and it would appear that DLNA is the 'thing' responsible for 'publishing' my videos?
- while I can play all the videos shown, they display according to filename, and in a massive blob of files; the filenames are not friendly, and the folder structure from the NAS is not visible. I carefully organized all the folders on the NAS to be informative.
- Looking further at the Multimedia Console, I see that no transcoding is enabled (or necessary).
- Also, I see that Video Station is disabled, DLNA is enabled (as mentioned), and there is a third item 'Media Streaming Addon' that is disabled.
- should I enable Video Station, and/or, should I enable 'Media Streaming Addon'?
Thanks for any help you can offer!