Xbox One AS a media server, not a streaming receiver

My current home media set up relies on a Plex server operating on a networked PC, which I access via my Xbox One and other devices, including iOS tablets. I'm downsizing quite a bit and going with the "tiny house" notion which is going around right now.
I have several terabytes of storage available on my Xbox One and would like to make it the centerpiece of my media network.

I'd like to migrate my personal media entirely over to the Xbox One and have it serve to the rest of my network. I see nothing which allows streaming of media FROM the Xbox One. Any ideas?

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Media Player Not showing MKV files.

For Win7/8 to read and send MKV, the underlying DLNA Digital Media Server needs to know how to read and advertise the MKV format.

The Xbox One October update only affects the console, and not your Windows PC.

While the Windows Media Player can be setup as a DNLA Server (via "Turn on media streaming.."), your version of Windows is not able to read and advertise MKV as media available to the Xbox One. As pointed out in the thread, you'll need a DLNA server on your
media PC.

Without endorsing one DLNA server software over another, this is a good thread to read to understand the required steps:

www.reddit.com/.../mkv_dlna_easy_guide

In case you need it, this is the full Xbox MKV support article:

support.xbox.com/.../mkv-support

 

Access my iMac photos / iTunes music on Xbox one?

I wish they'd just include DLNA streaming on Xbox one - then you could stream from iTunes, a NAS media server, or whatever.

 

Hi BrianRagle,

The Xbox One isn't really designed to be a network media server. You can only stream from your Xbox to your Windows 10 PC using the Xbox App for Windows 10. However protected video and HDCP-protected content can't be streamed with game streaming. This includes
protected HDMI television content as well as the content from many media applications.

support.xbox.com/.../how-to-use-game-streaming