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Originally Posted by Rob
I've been to the xbox site www.xbox.com/pcsetup That hasn't prompted me to download anything other than media player 11 which I already have on the PC.
I'm then told I will need to add a code in media player when I click library > media sharing. But the xbox is already listed in there as active (deleting and reinstalling made no difference).
There I times when I really hate technology  |
it appears people didnt read your post , if your running generic xp sp2/sp3 , you DONT mess with any of the extra Media Centre Windows stuff as you dont have it unless you buy the WMC OC that the PCsetup uses to talk to the extra apps installed in thatMedia centre , for generic xp you just need to be running the right xp sevices, but id forget using windows media player for streaming to the 360 anyway.
just go get and install Tversity
http://tversity.com/
its will play far more files and is far better to use, an keep updated with new content....
regarding your old and main PCs working and not, i forget the exact services but i bet you disabled at least one of the required ones.
"windows media network shareing service", "plug and play Device host" , and "ssdp discovery service" are the main ones to make the 360 see the multicast streams/files i think, but as i say just try Tversity.... you wil fine it far better than th other 3rd party apps.
to make tversity see and use any LAN shared dirs and files, simply install the Tversity app as usual, make a new account name and password with admin rights, then set the Tversity service to use that account.... works great if you run one single Tversity on the lan....
iv looked to use more than one and found this but not tryed it as yet....
http://forums.tversity.com/viewtopic...tart=15#p54187
http://forums.tversity.com/viewtopic...2457e2cddfae07
installing the latest ffdshow
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ffdshow-tryout/
and MatroskaSplitter.exe
http://www.digital-digest.com/softwa...3&ssid=0&did=2
what GFX card do you have Rob?, if you have a AMD/ATI Xxxx or HDxxxx then you might find using its AVIVO app interesting as on a generic intel core2 you can trancode a 90 min mkv to a wmv 360 compatable file type for quick and dirty conversion in 20 mins or so...
its advertised as GPU assisted, but its not as yet, only running on the CPU, so is effected by that power OC,its stil the fastest "quick and dirty" easy transcoder though .....
if you prefer, you can also download and install ATI Tray Tools , there that dir you wil find an app "ATIXcoder.exe" the writer made to access the AVIVO DLL directly and get slighty better control over the directshow ATI control apps etc
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Tweak/V...ay-Tools.shtml
if you dont have the AMD/ATI cards then you can probably make the old 2005 hacked stand alone freeware AVIVO trancoder app work for you PC OC and its still slighty faster than the current 8.12 driverset anyway.
http://files.filefront.com/ATIAvivoV.../fileinfo.html