Editing Windows Media Player (section)

===Media streaming===

Previously, Microsoft had released [[Windows Media Connect]] for [[Windows XP]] to stream media content with its built-in UPnP media server. With version 11 of Windows Media Player, [[WMPNSS|Media Sharing]] was integrated and allows content (Music, Pictures, Video) to be streamed to and from [[Universal Plug and Play|Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) AV]] enabled devices such as the [[PS3]], [[Xbox 360]], and Roku [[SoundBridge]]. This includes DRM protected [[PlaysForSure]] content. WMP 11 on Windows Vista can also act as a client to connect to remote media libraries using this feature; this is not available on the [[Windows XP]] version.

With version 12, media streaming was further improved. While previous versions streamed media to [[UPnP]] compliant devices (Digital Media Server role) and could play media by fetching it from a network share (Digital Media Player role),<ref name="WMP12Streaming">{{cite web |url=http://blogs.msdn.com/b/e7/archive/2009/05/12/media-streaming-with-windows-7.aspx |title=Media Streaming with Windows 7 |publisher=[[Microsoft]] |work=Engineering Windows 7 |first=Steven |last=Sinofsky |date=May 12, 2009 |access-date=April 23, 2015 |archive-date=July 12, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110712162812/http://blogs.msdn.com/b/e7/archive/2009/05/12/media-streaming-with-windows-7.aspx |url-status=live }}</ref> Windows Media Player 12 can access media from the shared media libraries on the network or HomeGroup, stream media to [[DLNA]] 1.5 compliant devices and allows itself (once the remote control option is turned on) to be remotely controlled by Digital Media Controller devices which stream media (Digital Media Renderer role).<ref name="WMP12Streaming"/> Similarly, the ''Play To'' feature once enabled for remote PCs, by turning on remote control of the player, allows compliant devices and computers to be discovered and controlled remotely from a computer running Windows Media Player 12 (Digital Media Controller role).<ref name="WMP12Streaming"/> If the devices do not support the streamed format, Windows Media Player 12 transcodes the format on-the-fly. Media from a home network can also be streamed over the internet using an ''Online ID Provider'' service, which handles discovery of the computer's IP address, authorization, security, connectivity and Quality of Service issues.<ref name="WMP12Streaming"/>