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What can I do with Nero Streaming Player?

Just came back from your vacation and your Smartphone is packed with all the nice memories captured as images or videos? Now, your family and friends are eager to watch it, but it’s no fun showing it on the small screen of your smartphone.

‘Nero Streaming Player App’ is a clever and easy to use solution for playing photos and videos on your smartphone wireless to the big Smart TV screen in the living room.

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‘Nero Streaming Player App’ works on your smartphone or tablet, no matter if iOS or Android. Just play files from your mobile device to any UPnP/DLNA enabled Smart TV or other Wi-Fi® media players in your home network – all without the need for cables or plugs.

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Nero Streaming Player App also allows you to play media like photos, slide shows, videos, music, movies & TV shows from your PC to your Smart TV. Moreover you can use your smartphone as a remote control for browsing and playing all your media files from the PC. So just lean back and enjoy your slide show or movie with family and friends.

Stream music, photos, and videos from your smartphone directly to your Smart TV
Browse media on your PC (photos, slide shows, videos, music, movies, TV shows) via the App on your mobile device and stream them to your TV
Stream media from your mobile device to another mobile device that runs ‘Nero Receiver App’
Stream media stored on your PC to a mobile device that runs ‘Nero Receiver App’
Play photos located on your PC as slide shows with automatic transitions and music on the big TV screen
Sort and play your music based on artist, album cover, title, or genre, and stream to a DLNA receiver
Make your smartphone become a remote control for volume, stop, pause, next/previous title
Available for Android and iOS devices
For streaming via the PC, Nero MediaHome must run on your PC

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What can I do with Nero MediaHome WiFi Sync?

Goodbye to your cables and plugs!

‘Nero MediaHome WiFi Sync’ App is the super easy to use wireless solution for transferring your image, video, and music files from your mobile device to your PC and vice versa.

‘Nero MediaHome WiFi Sync’ helps you to sync all your media in just a few simple steps between your PC and your iOS or Android device.

Pre-condition: Install and run the universal media center ‘Nero MediaHome’ on your PC, and have your PC and your mobile device logged in to the same network.

Unlimited data transfer
Synchronization of music, photos, and video
In case of file incompatibility auto-transcoding to best matching format
No extra hardware needed
Super easy handling

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How do I make my photos look better with just one or two clicks?

Open ‘Nero MediaHome‘ and attach your smartphone, DSC or USB stick to your PC. ‘Nero MediaHome‘ will detect your device and show files on your device that you can select for importing. If your photos are already availabe on your PC, ‘Nero MediaHome’ will probably already have scanned your system and will show the in images in ‘timeline view’, ‘faces view’, or ‘places view’. You can also add folders manually to ‘Nero MediaHome watched folders or drives ‘ by clicking ‘Options‘ > ‘Library‘.

Now select a photo in browsing view and double click on it. Your photo will open in full screen view. In the bottom panel click ‘Edit Photo‘.

A message box appears telling you that all changes you are to apply in any part of the image editing will be stored in history for an ‘undo‘ at any point later. It is also very convenient that you do not have to save any of the changes applied. Check the box ‘Never show me again‘ and proceed via ‘ok’.

Now the left hand image editing menu opens. Click on ‘Auto Enhance‘ for one click image fixing, or click ‘Auto Exposure‘ and ‘Auto Color‘ to auto enhance these two values individually. In our example we just clicked
‘Auto Exposure‘ to brighten up the image while color already looked great.

Under ‘Adjust‘ you will find more options for manually fine tuning your images, if wanted.

You can also crop and straighten your images, or remove red eyes. Let us take a look at the crop functions.

As you can see you have handles top, bottom, left, and right to easily crop your image to the wanted dimensions. Click ‘Apply’ for using the selected dimensions. Under ‘Manual‘ you will also find typical useful template sizes to auto-apply (post card sizes, A4, 16:9, 4:3, and more).

Now, let us also take a look at the nice image enhancing effects. You have got a number of vintage photo effect templates here. Just put the mouse over one of the effect templates and you will see a preview immediately. Then just click on the wanted effect template and it will be applied automatically. In our example we used a sepia effect.

That’s how easy it is to enhance your images with ‘Nero MediaHome‘ applying just one or two clicks.

By the way: you can also make use of these easy image enhancing functions when you have a series of images inside of a slideshow project – you don’t even have to leave your project for applying image enhancement.

Just try it out and have fun.

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Why do I get a “Unable to open the database file.” message upon launch of Nero MediaHome?

Please open Nero MediaHome via Nero 2017 launcher screen.

Background Information:

In former versions Nero MediaHome used to be a standalone product that was version independent from Nero Suite product releases. A new version or an update of Nero MediaHome would have just updated any version of Nero MediaHome on the same system and overwritten the former version.

Starting with Nero 2017, Nero MediaHome 2017 like any other application of Nero Suite was changed to be version dependent with Nero Suite releases. There is also no feature reduced free version of Nero MediaHome available any longer. Due to these modifications the new product can be better positioned in the market and you as a paying customers can benefit from an extended feature set. Moreover, there is no disadvantage or risk of data loss against older versions. Any asset of the media library of an existing product will be automatically taken over to the new Nero Media Home 2017.

Same as before, only the latest available Nero MediaHome on an end-user system is allowed to access the media library. Different than before now an older version can exist side by side with new Nero MediaHome 2017 on the same system. In such a scenario – if you try to open a former version of Nero MediaHome (which by design does not include the media library any longer) it will fail to launch with the message: “Unable to open the database file.” This is the expected behavior and you can safely uninstall the older version.

Also, if you are using the text search from Windows start menu to launch Nero MediaHome possibly an older version might be executed and you will run into the same issue. In this case you can safely uninstall the older version of Nero MediaHome, too.

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Can I play back Audio CDs and Video Discs with Nero MediaHome?

Sure, you can.

Open ‘Nero MediaHome’. Insert an Audio CD into your PC drive and it will appear in the device view to the left.

‘Nero MediaHome’ shows available Audio-CD information and will check in the background for more CD-information like Album title, artist etc. This information will be added in the library.

Playback will start right away. Use the playback functions below for selecting other tracks.

You can also easily import CD tracks to your library. Click on import CD to add tracks to Nero MediaHome library. The Import status is shown at the bottom left.

You can continue browsing your media library while Audio-CD playback continues in the back. Click on the small window bottom left to get back to Music view.

For playing back a DVD-Video disc insert it into the PC drive.

The menu structure will appear and lets you playback your disc or access individual titles.

Via right click the context menu gives you options to go back to the main menu and more.

Also check out the video tutorial

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