DLNA (Digital Living Network Alliance) allows us to stream interesting films, vivid pictures and important files from your laptop to your DLNA Certified TVs or other recognized devices, for sharing media contents with family members and friends. Strangely enough, when streaming MP4 videos over DLNA, some people claim they can successfully play MP4 videos on HDTV via DLNA, while other can't. It's officially stated that MP4 is supported by DLNA. So why this happening? Read on to find the reason and the quick and easy solution to fix the MP4 and DLNA incompatible issue.

In fact, MP4 is a flexible container format which can store just about anything (H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, MPEG-4(A)SP, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, H.265/HEVC, VC-1/WMV, Real Video, Theora, Microsoft MPEG4 V2, VP8, VP9, MVC) while WMV, MPEG is more or less complete formats they know what to expect while with MP4's you really can't tell without checking the contents itself. Therefore if you can't play MP4 video files over DLNA, it's probably that your MP4 file codec isn't compatible with DLNA.

To easily solve the problem, you can convert this MP4 video to DLNA sanctioned format, e.g. H.264 MP4. To finish the task, you can adopt EaseFab Video Converter for help. With it, you can encode any video files including MP4 as well as MKV, VOB, AVI, MXF, MOV, and more to DLNA supported video formats with fast speed and zero quality loss. Plus, it offers kinds of preset profiles for media players including PS4/3, iPad, iPhone, Nexus 7, Nexus 10, Nook HD, Samsung Galaxy Tab 4, Galaxy S6, etc to meet your different needs. If you're using a Mac, please turn to the Mac version. Now, we will give a detailed guide on the whole process from converting MP4 to DLNA supported video.

Simple Steps to Encode MP4 files for Streaming over DLNA

Step 1. Add MP4 videos



Step 2. Choose output format




Step 3. Start converting MP4 for DLNA



What's DLNA
