I can't choose external player

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Server Version#: 1.30.2.6563-700 Installed on Synology DSM7
Player Version#: 1.62.2.3451

I can’t chose an external player:

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When I install the enby server on the same synology I can choose external player:

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DLNA is activated:

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What can I do?

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You can’t stream TO DLNA clients.
If you’ve enabled the DLNA server, you can access your server FROM those DLNA clients.

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Thanks for your answer, but it is working with the Emby server.

I choose a track and choose an external player in the right top corner like my AV Receiver and the song is played at the receiver.

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This is what Wikipedia says:

Specification[edit]

The DLNA Certified Device Classes are separated as follows:[11]

Home network devices[edit]

  • Digital Media Server (DMS): store content and make it available to networked digital media players (DMP) and digital media renderers (DMR). Examples include PCs and network-attached storage (NAS) devices.
  • Digital Media Player (DMP): find content on digital media servers (DMS) and provide playback and rendering capabilities. Examples include TVs, stereos and home theaters, wireless monitors and game consoles.
  • Digital Media Renderer (DMR): play content as instructed by a digital media controller (DMC), which will find content from a digital media server (DMS). Examples include TVs, audio/video receivers, video displays and remote speakers for music. It is possible for a single device (e.g. TV, A/V receiver, etc.) to function both as a DMR (receives “pushed” content from DMS) and DMP (“pulls” content from DMS).
  • Digital Media Controller (DMC): find content on digital media servers (DMS) and instruct digital media renderers (DMR) to play the content. Content does not stream from or through the DMC. Examples include tablet computers, Wi-Fi enabled digital cameras and smartphones.
  • Generally, digital media players (DMP) and digital media controllers (DMC) with print capability can print to DMPr. Examples include networked photo printers and networked all-in-one printers.

So the Emby Server is DMS an also DMC. My AV-Receiver is a DMR.
The DMC tells a DMR to play songs from the DMS.

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Plex has never supported controlling a DLNA player like that

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OK, but why is there this icon at the top right?

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It says “choose player”.

I just found out, when I use Plex on my iPhone I can connect to this and can control it from my pc

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I can switch to another album and it is played on the iPhone.

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so it should work in Plex, but my player are not shown in the Plex app.

Can anyone give me a hint why not?

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No, it doesn’t.
Plex can cast/fling mainly to other Plex clients (see the support article linked by flow).
Plex doesn’t support casting to /controlling a DLNA client (as stated by BigWheel).

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Ah, ok. Sorry my fault. I saw the long list

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but didn’t realize that this where all Plex apps …

Thanks fpr your help!

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The Plex companion will mainly fling/cast to Plex clients. It also supports some other streaming protocols – this will depend on platform etc.; e.g. on an Apple device you should be able to stream a video from a client to AirPlay; IIRC Chromecast is also supported.
Plex however doesn’t have the capability to act as a DLNA controller.

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