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Google Media Server brings Google to your TV

Posted by sudhirmangla June 28, 2008

A surprising Google Desktop gadget released by Google enables you to share your media across devices. "Google Media Server uses an open technology known as Universal Plug n’ Play to stream media to consumer electronic devices. The UPnP specification allows for a variety of hardware (gaming consoles, set-top boxes, photo frames) to communicate and access media from your home PC."
The Windows-only gadget lets you share all the media content indexed by Google Desktop or just the files from some of your folders. Google Media Server can also share some of your Picasa albums (from your computer or from Picasa Web Albums) and the videos uploaded to YouTube.
Google’s application requires to authorize the devices that are allowed to access your files, but there’s an option to allow any device to access the Media Server.

Google Media Server works in conjunction with Google Desktop on a Windows-based PC to stream media files to Universal Plug-a-Play devices which most notably includes the PlayStation 3, all near automatically.

The initial downside is that this program is currently only available for Windows users.

In addition to being able to hunt down and share video, music, and photo files, the Google Media Server has the capabilities to interact with Google’s Picasa Web Albums as well as YouTube videos.

Download Google Media Server for yourself here, or check out more information at the official Google Desktop Blog.

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