Connecting PC with Xbox 360

Faded · 3 Jun 2007 at 00:13

Is there any way to connect my PC to my 360 wirelessly so I can stream videos and photos to it?

When I try the media sharing software, which appears to be Zune, I'm told its only available for North America?

scratch · 3 Jun 2007 at 09:11

Yeah that Zune software really annoyed me. Took about 15 minutes to get it installed and setup and then it tells me I can't use it!

Try turning on media sharing in Windows Media Player instead. This will allow your 360 to see anything in your media library. You won't be able to watch any non-MS format files this way though. For this you'd need to try Transcode360 or TVersity.

Andy

Faded · 3 Jun 2007 at 12:51

Thanks mate, will give it a go today.

- Excellent, it worked a treat.

stumpy187 · 5 Jun 2007 at 12:41

i used the microsoft media connect thing through Windows Media Player 11 yesterday and it all went well, all my songs appeared on the 360 that are on my pc but when i tried to play then they all, every single one of them said it was unsupported. maybe that was because i have iTunes set as my default music player but i guess that shouldnt matter

GreenMint · 5 Jun 2007 at 12:51

I'm not sure if there are any old versions of the free program Windows Media Connect now (i use that) but MS seem to have replaced all links with Zune now, it can be a real pain in t'arse to find Windows Media Connect

railer33 · 5 Jun 2007 at 13:16

I stream mine no problems what so ever! I use the windows media connect! I stream my music, my photos and even movies!

MikGriff · 5 Jun 2007 at 13:31

Either do it through Media Sharing in WMP11 or use Media Center in Vista

Shamikebab · 5 Jun 2007 at 18:27

I've never managed to get media sharing working, i go into the sharing menu for WMP 11 and tick the 'share my media' box, go to press ok and the ok box greys out for about 4 mins, then becomes clickable again. In the end i have to press cancel to get out of the menu. Then i go back in and the box is unchecked again :mad:

anyone know how to resolve this?

Klytus · 5 Jun 2007 at 18:32

Shamikebab said:
I've never managed to get media sharing working, i go into the sharing menu for WMP 11 and tick the 'share my media' box, go to press ok and the ok box greys out for about 4 mins, then becomes clickable again. In the end i have to press cancel to get out of the menu. Then i go back in and the box is unchecked again anyone know how to resolve this?

I have the exact same problem, strangely enough it works perfectly on mediaplayer 11 in Vista on another partition. The only way I found to get it working in XP was to use the zune software.

Klytus · 7 Jun 2007 at 21:01

Shamikebab said:
I've never managed to get media sharing working, i go into the sharing menu for WMP 11 and tick the 'share my media' box, go to press ok and the ok box greys out for about 4 mins, then becomes clickable again. In the end i have to press cancel to get out of the menu. Then i go back in and the box is unchecked again anyone know how to resolve this?

Edit:
Figured out my problem I had "Windows Media Player Network Sharing Service" Disabled. To enable it click on the "start menu" then "run". Type "services.msc" then scroll down to "Windows Media Player Network Sharing Service", right click on it and then click "properties" then switch it to manual or automatic. Hey presto! it should work now!