🎬 Play audio and video
Play your own videos, music and audiobooks from your storage directly in the program – without downloading them.
What it does for you
- You watch your own videos or listen to your music from any device without copying the file first.
- The player remembers where you stopped – ideal for audiobooks and long videos.
- Saves space on the computer, because nothing is stored permanently.
Who it is for: Everyone with their own videos, music or audiobooks in storage.
What you need: Media files in your personal area. The feature is being enabled step by step.
The videos from the family party are in your storage, and you want to show them on your parents' laptop – without downloading three gigabytes first. Double-click, and it plays.
How it works
When playing, DasDing fetches the file piece by piece from your storage – only as much as is needed at the moment, as with a streaming service. No copy is created on the computer. The transfer runs with your sign-in over the encrypted connection; nobody else sees what you play.
How to do it
- 🏠 Personal area → click a media file (rows with 🎬 or 🎵).
- ▶ Play in the bar or simply double-click the file.
- The player opens in its own window, so you can keep working. On the right is the playlist with all media files of the folder; at the end the next track plays automatically.
Keys in the player: space pause, ← / → 10 seconds back/forward, F full screen, M mute, N / P next/previous track.
Which formats work?
The built-in player uses your system's technology: video such as MP4 or WebM and audio such as MP3, FLAC or M4A/M4B (audiobooks) play. Some formats (for example AVI, WMV or MKV with HEVC) it can't handle; then a notice appears.
If VLC (free, videolan.org) or mpv is installed on your computer, the button “▶ Open in VLC” appears. The file plays there just as safely and without a copy, because VLC gets it piece by piece from DasDing. VLC plays practically everything – you can install it via Software.
Can I share my videos with others?
With a link via 🔗 Shared – the other person then downloads the file.
This guide is also available in the program under 📖 Guides – with jump links to the other guides.