Accessing Desired Folders - Media Streaming Options

Goal: Watch videos & listen to music that is stored on my PC --- on my LG TV. I have gotten this to work, but not the folders I want.

1. Have connected my Win 10 Pro computer to my wired router.
2. Have connected my new LG TV to my wired router.
3. The PC sees the "Media Devices" of the LG TV.
4. The LG sees my PC, calls it "storage" as part of its "media sharing" system.
5. When I click to watch or listen, the TV seems to only have access to the PC's default C: drive Music, Video, Photos folders.
6. I don't store anything there. Have my videos, etc. on different drives.
7. I have tested moving a video and audio file to those c: drive folders, and they work. So...

Does anyone have any idea to be able to access my needed folders? Or if not, maybe to convert those C: drive folders into shortcuts for the file folders I want to access? Would suck to have to copy files to the C: drive all the time.

Thanks!
Chamlin

Samuria said:

On the tv select input list if the folders are shared correct it should show them there

Thanks, great one. The PC shows up in the TV's list, but it only shows the default C: drive's Video, Music, Photos folders, Which I don't use. That's the issue, thanks!

chamlin said:

When I click to watch or listen, the TV seems to only have access to the PC's default C: drive Music, Video, Photos folders.
Does anyone have any idea to be able to access my needed folders?

Yes, you add them to the Windows Media Player's libraries.



Click the Add button and browse to find the folders you want your TV to be able to access.

Bree, thank you so much. Just what I needed! Gratitude...Chamlin

just wanted to say thanks - Clearly very straightforward that to add folders to the media libraries you have to use WMP :)