Media Sharing With Xbox 360

Numero

Alright, so I'm trying to share my music on my home PC with my Xbox 360 across our home network using WMP11. However, Media Player won't detect the console, nor will the console find my PC. I think it's because of my home network setup, but I'm not quite sure what to do about it.

Our cable modem is hooked up to a wired router, which is also what the 360 is plugged into. Also plugged into that router is a wireless access point; I'm on the opposite end of the house from the router, making wireless the best avenue for my internet connection. I think this is where trouble is occurring, interoperability between the wired and wireless connection, but I'm not sure how to go about fixing it.

Bionic Monkey

I could never get it to work with wmp11, so I just downgraded to wmp9 (since I use Media Player Classic anyway) and used Windows Media Connect.

PirateJon

Can you ping the console from the PC?

Bebop7

Try TVersity (it's free).

truck-a-sauras

another vote here for tversity. not only will you be able to stream your music, it can do all sorts of video and internet feeds

Zwa

It's your network that's the problem, anything connected on the wired router cannot see something that's connected to the access point. I have this problem at home.

There's probably someway to do it or you could just buy a combined router and access point.

PirateJon

if the ap is also a router, you have to set it in bridge mode.

shutz

Until you set bridge mode, it's possible that TVersity also won't work, so make sure you fix your network.

But after that, I really do recommend TVersity. It will even do transcoding on-the-fly, so that video files which the 360 can't play natively will be transcoded to WMV before streaming to your console. Any video you can play with Windows Media Player will actually play on your 360. If your PC is powerful / fast enough, you may even be able to stream transcoded HD video (although my Core Duo 2.0 GHz laptop couldn't transcode fast enough to play the 720p version of Sin City I was trying to watch.) Almost all standard def videos I tried played smoothly.

Also, for some reason, when using WMP 11 to share music with my 360, it would sometimes duplicate the songs in a folder (possibly due to the presence of playlist files, I'm not sure) which was really annoying when trying to play whole albums. TVersity seems to fix that problem for me.