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How can I play content from my PC wirelessly to my TV using my Smartphone as a remote control?

You have photos, videos, and music on your PC available in ‘Nero MediaHome’? Great. If your TV set is network enabled and connected to the same network as your PC via WLAN or LAN you can play all of your content via ‘Nero MediaHome’ e.g. on the big TV screen in your living room.

If you own a smartphone or tablet just comfortably make use of it as a remote control for streaming from ‘Nero MediaHome’. Simply download and install free ‘Nero Streaming Player’ app for iOS and Android via the respective app store, and log into the same network as your PC and TV. Now you can browse and watch media on your PC directly on your mobile device and additionally stream these to your TV set via Nero Streaming Player.

Switch on your TV set and switch on your PC. Then start Nero MediaHome and finally launch Nero Streaming Player.

Nero Streaming Player home screen will indicate that Nero MediaHome is available as a server, and show available playback devices in your network. Make sure your Smart TV shows up. Then select the lower button ‘Play from PC & NAS’ and your Nero MediaHome.

The next screen shows Nero MediaHome library with photos, videos, music, and themed slideshows. Just click on the appropriate icon at the bottom to browse content for playback.

In photo view and all other views you have the same choice of categories at top that you already know from Nero MediaHome. For example: in photo view you can select timeline view, Faces view, AI Tags view or Places view, and more.

In photo view click on a photo and the playback view opens. Touch and swipe left to get to the next image, touch and swipe right for going back to the previous image. Now click on the ‘play to’ icon and select your network enabled TV set. Swipe again to watch your photos on TV or press play to automatically play images in sequence.

Playing back all other media categories (videos, music, and themed slide shows) works the same way. Just proceed as described above.

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Tip: Nero Streaming Player can also play photos, videos, and music located on your smartphone or tablet directly on your TV set. Check it out here:

‘How can I play photos, videos, and music located on my Smartphone wirelessly on my TV ?’

Also watch the video tutorial.

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Why is it impossible to play Nero nvc files?

There is a fundamental difference between a ‘Nero Video’ project file (nvc) and a media file (video, photo, audio).

Any time you open and save a project ‘Nero Video’ will create an nvc project file. Media files imported into your ‘Nero Video’ project will be saved as links to the source files on your PC’s hard drive, only. Now, when you edit media files inside of your project your source files remain untouched. ‘Nero Video’ just memorizes set edit points in the timeline and links the respective play points to your source file.

Accordingly a ‘Nero Video’ nvc file contains data links to video, photo, and music clips as well as references to any used effect, etc. Such data will be saved as pure meta data in a data base file.

As a matter of fact a ‘Nero Video’ nvc project file is not a media file but a data base file and cannot be played with a media player. In order to play the results of your project as an independant media file you first need to export (encode) your Nero Video project to a video file format such as AVC or MP4.

Tip: Make sure to have all drives connected to your PC that have been used in a ‘Nero Video’ project that you are going to open (e.g. you may have used footage on external hard drives before). Also make sure never to delete or re-locate the source files used in your ‘Nero Video’ projects. Otherwise the source file linking in your ‘Nero Video’ project gets broken. ‘Nero Video’ will ask at project start if media files are missing in your project.

If you forgot to attach the external hard drive attach it again and browse to the name displayed in ‘Nero Video’ message box. If you moved a folder with source footage to a different location on your PC browse to the location where your footage is located now. When clicking ok all files will be re-linked and your project is fine again.

If you deleted source files by accident your project will be destroyed. In such a case ‘Nero RescueAgent’ might help to recover your source files.

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Is it possible to burn video discs from Nero Recode converting jobs?

Sure, this works as described below.

You can burn discs from your ‘Nero Recode’ job list by directly sending your project over to ‘Nero Video’ Disc Authoring.

On ‘Nero Recode’ home page add clips to the drop zone or open an already existing job. Your clips will be listed in the converting page. If you don’t want to convert such videos but send them directly to DVD-Video or Blu-ray Disc burning click on ‘Create Video in Nero Video’.

Then select the disc format you prefer. Now all your videos are instantly taken over to the disc content window in ‘Nero Video’. In this windows you can now preview your titles and even add chapter marks for your disc menus.

Click ‘next’ and select a suiting menu from the high quality templates. In the menu preview you can now check your menu structure. When all is o.k. click ‘next’ to finally burn your videos to DVD.

Also check out the video tutorial.

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How can I convert MP3s with Nero Recode?

Besides converting video files and video discs ‘Nero Recode’ allows you to convert audio file formats to mp3 files quickly and easily.

Drag & Drop auido files via ‘Windows Explorer’ to ‘Nero Recode’ drop zone. ‘Nero Recode’ will read the format and open the job window.

Most left under number 1 ‘for which device?’ click on the music button and select MP3. Here, you also have a choice of other high quality audio formats.

The audio bitrate will be set automatically. For manual selection of a preferred quality open the drop down list. Finally, you just need to specify the storage location and click ok.

Your job will be displayed on the home screen. Click ‘Start Encoding’ and your jobs will be processed rapidly.

Via ‘Browse’ go to the location on your hard disk or press play to listen to the encoded song.

Also check out the video tutorial.

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What is the meaning of Background Rendering? When would I use it?

If you are working on a Full HD Project with many tracks and a number of video effects applied your system may not be performant enough to play your preview in realtime. Also 4K projects can suffer from perfomance in preview.

For such cases ‘Nero Video’ has a special function called ‘Background Rendering‘. With this function enabled Nero Video will render your project in the background whenever your project is idle so that you can even watch complex projects in realtime.

To switch on ‘Background Rendering‘ in ‘Nero Video’ go to ‘options > application settings > editing’ and ‘Enable Nero Background Rendering’.

‘Nero Video’ will show a percentage indication. When this is finished (100%) ‘Nero Video’ is ready for a realtime preview.

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