Stream Synology NAS Video to your LG Smart TV - Media Server & Video Station Guide 

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Not an authority/expert, but MKV is like an envelope for the video to sit in (I think it mainly is for adding subtitles). The "real" issue may be the encoding (how the video was compressed). Uncompressed video is H U G E ! ! ! ! So huge it isn't normally part of a home TV setup. Professional video can be above 150mb per frame. A 10 minute video is 2,764,800,000 ... that's around 2GB ... for 10 minutes. So the compression with help. I think x264 and x265 are the most common ones I've seen. MANY others exist. But that's not the "envelope" (file extension) as such. I think. Hopefully I'm somewhere close on this.

thank sir but my LG play mkv success

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Yes, you can point Media Server to whatever folders you are already using. You are right about DS video is not available on the LG but you can access it through the TV’s browser but, at least on my 1515+, I usually get a Not Enough Memory message in the browser when trying to play videos, even smaller ones. And of course H265 movies aren’t understood by Video Station, at least on my version. Kodi is not in the LG App Store but Plex is. My experience with Plex has been lacking given my hardware. But that is a possibility I’d like to try on better hardware. Currently, my best way to watch home video is still through DNLA, and for movies I just copy 10 or so at a time to a USB stick and plug them into the TV. I think one day I’ll put a small backup computer with a good enough processor for H265 at my TV and have it sync with the NAS as more of a backup. I actually do better playing movies from my Windows machine over the network than any way I’ve tried with the Synology. Also, there was a video I recently watched comparing 4K of different bit rates on a newer Synology and QNap so you can look for that.

How long does it take the NAS to finish indexing? I bought it few days ago, but can't set it up so that my TV could see the media content. I have installed Media Server App as well as Advanced Media Extensions App and Video Station App. None to them made the content visible on TV although it can see the DS720plus itself with folders Music/Photo/Video but w/o any files in there although they are there... Why? What dance should I dance to make it work? Does it index automatically and I should just wait or should I install any additional software?

Media Server will tell you when it is indexing in the app or you can check the resource manager to see if indexing is taking place. I’ve seen it take days to reindex.

@@user-sx1ym1fi8m no, you need check accept on menu DMA client to access dlna synology media server

i'm using sm8100 nanocell and good play with dlna & external sub. you should take care to DMA client option on Media Server software.

I guess first check our recycle bin. Next step would be to search your entire NAS in case you accidentally dropped them in the wrong folder. Other than that, hopefully you have a backup. For future reference, you can configure media server to monitor whatever folders you want so you really don’t have to move anything. I know you posted a long time ago. Did you find your photos?

It depends on the NAS but generally they stream good except for 4K h265 videos. You can also stick that USB stick into your LG TV, most likely. That’s what I do for h265 HDR movies because my NAS is 9 years old and just doesn’t have the horsepower to stream those files.

@@williamhicks2763 Thanks mate, yes probably easier to go direct in tv. I added a USB extension cable so it's easy to access 😀

PEBKAC bro. It is just as easy on a QNAP as it is a Synology. You must have missed something.

A considerable amount of time if your NAS has 1TB+ of videos.

You should be fine, but distance, walls and bitrate will be the main factors. I stream 4k pretty easily, but I'm pretty experienced and kitted out. Or, you could plug them in via ethernet cable.

@@techable7524 Thank you very much, I ll try with an ethernet cable maybe with an internet signal brought there via a powerline plug. Thank you! :)

I’m having the same problem. Did you ever get it figured out?

I had LG OLED as well. This TV is dedicated for gorgeus view experience, but it is only one thing. If you want to use it for more thinks it is horor.

Try index folder with video in your NAS and add it to auto indexing as well for future changes (adding other videos and music).

Did you succeed?

yes, as a network drive

Index exact folders with photos on your NAS/ if using Android tv - you can install Synology application for this on the tv itself.

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That NAS is only good for sharing files. You ideally should have about 16 Gigabytes of ram. Also the cpu is too weak to transcode on the fly for media formats the tv won't play on its own.