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Oh 360! Let me share my media with you!
Algrun
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Ever since the fall update, my xbox 360 and my PC have been having a media sharing love affair. With the ability to play xvid/divx files, my xbox 360 has become the center of my and my housemates theater experience.
A few things have happened over the past week, and now the 360, for whatever reason, is spurning my PC's advances.
1) I installed a new processor
2) I reset my motherboards BIOS to it's original state. Flashing it with the updated version yields a non-boot, so I'm not quite sure how to update that. Still, there doesn't appear to be a reason why the old BIOS shouldn't work.
3) I installed Microsoft Activesync for a new smartphone, and synced it a few times.
Now, the Xbox 360 can see the other computers on the network, and can connect to their shares through both the Zune player and WMP 11. However, it just will not see my computer (which, of course, is the one we keep all our awesome media on.) I've tried restarting everything, rebooting the router, making sure the Windows firewall is allowing all the connections. I've uninstalled and reinstalled Windows Media Player 11, installed the Zune software, and I've got nothing. The other computers can access my PC's shared stuff just fine, so I know it's not network sharing in general.
My computer can see the XBox 360 just fine, and WMP sees it in the list of devices to share to. However, the 360 turns a blind eye to the piles and piles of awesome music and TV shows that are sitting on my assorted hard drives, just waiting to be watched.
Anyone had this experience before? I've tried various things after hunting around on the internet, but I've got nothing. I didn't realize how much I and my housemates had come to depend on the 360 and now we're in some pretty bad withdrawal.
A few things have happened over the past week, and now the 360, for whatever reason, is spurning my PC's advances.
1) I installed a new processor
2) I reset my motherboards BIOS to it's original state. Flashing it with the updated version yields a non-boot, so I'm not quite sure how to update that. Still, there doesn't appear to be a reason why the old BIOS shouldn't work.
3) I installed Microsoft Activesync for a new smartphone, and synced it a few times.
Now, the Xbox 360 can see the other computers on the network, and can connect to their shares through both the Zune player and WMP 11. However, it just will not see my computer (which, of course, is the one we keep all our awesome media on.) I've tried restarting everything, rebooting the router, making sure the Windows firewall is allowing all the connections. I've uninstalled and reinstalled Windows Media Player 11, installed the Zune software, and I've got nothing. The other computers can access my PC's shared stuff just fine, so I know it's not network sharing in general.
My computer can see the XBox 360 just fine, and WMP sees it in the list of devices to share to. However, the 360 turns a blind eye to the piles and piles of awesome music and TV shows that are sitting on my assorted hard drives, just waiting to be watched.
Anyone had this experience before? I've tried various things after hunting around on the internet, but I've got nothing. I didn't realize how much I and my housemates had come to depend on the 360 and now we're in some pretty bad withdrawal.
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http://www.tversity.com/home
It'll let you stream pretty much anything on your 360 that your computer can play.
Both worked as advertised. Here is what I discovered.
Streaming from PC to xbox with Tversity is GREAT. I turned off the transcoder, and it has almost no footprint on my machine, unlike WMP11 which took up about 10% of the CPU when streaming. That could also be due to the new dual core processor. There is slightly more time to buffer than WMP11, but its a pretty small difference. HD looks good.
Orb is a different beast. I think I have done all the steps to do direct streaming to the xbox 360, and it picks it up no problem, but the video quality is significantly worse than both TVersity and WMP11. Additionally, buffering takes FOREVER, even with audio. Not sure what's going on there.
However, it's the exact opposite with my mobile device. I got video, audio, and pictures working no problem with Orb to my Moto Q global (AT&T). However, things were pretty rough with TVersity. Not only did it try to transcode everything and freeze up my computer, but I could not get video working at all, and audio constantly dropped.
Right now, I have both services running-- TVersity for 360, and Orb for my mobile device. Pretty cool stuff.