Connecting Xbox to PC via router?
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Soldato
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Another vote for TVersity. Tried Zune and found it horrible. TVersity is much easier to assign folders and stuff, and will allow you to play any media file (mov,mpg,flv etc) as opposed to Zune/Mediaplayer only allowing WMV and WMA/MP3.
Sorry chaps... another problem.
I tried Zune and connected fine to my xbox 360. I streamed pictures, video clips and music and it displayed them perfectly. Now, as Zune only plays .wmv files I heard about TVersity. I uninstalled Zune and installed TVersity.
I disconnected my PC from the Xbox using the system blade on the xbox 360 so everything was from fresh.
Now, I've installed TVersity, launched it and added some test media in to the Library. The Library has successfully refreshed and I can see all the folders as I browse through the GUI.
I go to the 360 menu and to either Video, Pics or Music and try to find a Windows based PC. It won't find my PC.
My setup is as follows:
XP SP2,
Xbox 360 -wired-> PC -wireless-> router.
I've got the correct port open and allocated to TVersity in my Linksys firewall settings and Windows Firewall has an exception to allow 'media center.exe'.
Why won't my Xbox 360 connect to my PC now? It did it fine with Zune.
Thanks for any help, I was up until 1.30am trying to get it to work last night!
[edit]: I also removed all my codecs and installed ffdshow, and done numerous restarts of the PC and xbox 360.
I tried Zune and connected fine to my xbox 360. I streamed pictures, video clips and music and it displayed them perfectly. Now, as Zune only plays .wmv files I heard about TVersity. I uninstalled Zune and installed TVersity.
I disconnected my PC from the Xbox using the system blade on the xbox 360 so everything was from fresh.
Now, I've installed TVersity, launched it and added some test media in to the Library. The Library has successfully refreshed and I can see all the folders as I browse through the GUI.
I go to the 360 menu and to either Video, Pics or Music and try to find a Windows based PC. It won't find my PC.
My setup is as follows:
XP SP2,
Xbox 360 -wired-> PC -wireless-> router.
I've got the correct port open and allocated to TVersity in my Linksys firewall settings and Windows Firewall has an exception to allow 'media center.exe'.
Why won't my Xbox 360 connect to my PC now? It did it fine with Zune.
Thanks for any help, I was up until 1.30am trying to get it to work last night!
[edit]: I also removed all my codecs and installed ffdshow, and done numerous restarts of the PC and xbox 360.
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Soldato
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Does Windows firewall have an exception for mediaserver.exe ? Also what colour is the TVersity icon in the taskbar? When running properly it should be blue, if it stops working it will be red.
