ALLMediaServer is a lightweight software application designed specifically for helping you work with a Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) server in order to view a variety of multimedia files, such as video and audio formats on other devices.

The utility gives you the possibility to connect to a device that hosts clips, movies, songs and images. You are offered the freedom to play and view the selected items.

In addition, you are allowed to connect to the Internet and browse websites or use IM clients (as long as the devices offer support for these functions). It works with different receivers, such as TV, Blu-ray, DVD, smartphones, Xbox and PS3.

You are welcomed by a clean and intuitive interface that allows you to easily manage your connection status (online or offline). In addition, it lets you check out the detected players and identified DLNA servers.

ALLMediaServer lets you search for items, add files and directories, remove the selected items from the list, switch between different view modes (detailed, list or tiles), and sort files by different criteria (e.g. artist, album) or opt for an automatic sorting mode.

The application helps you stream audio and video data (SD and HD), automatically monitor and update the multimedia libraries as changes occur to the source folders, and automatically rotate images to the correct position in the main window.

ALLMediaServer lets you run the server at Windows startup, enable the server when the program is opened, turn off the server when the playist is closed, download snapshots from added movies, images and MP3 files, grab covers for clips and TV shows, prevent adding duplicate files, and send data without transcoding.

All things considered, ALLMediaServer comes with a decent feature pack and delivers an intuitive working environment. On the downside, not all of the program’s features are translated accurately into English and some of them are left into Polish, so it may prove to be quite difficult to understand their functions.