Well the Belkin router has a new home, and it streams audio to my xbox

I have to use windows media centre edition to do it though.

however, when i try windows media player under XP pro, it sees the xbox, but will not connect

I tried the wifes lappy, to see if that would work, that wont even see the xbox using windows media player

Any ideas why media centre works but the other variants dont? And if I

dump my XP pro partition and go to WMCE what functions of pro do
I lose


Mart

 

now talk about strange....

music plays fine in wme

tried a video, endoded as an avi & encoded as a divx file

neither would play on the xbox using wmce

tried playing on the main pc using wmce and neither file will play


so reverted back to xp pro, and both files will play ok using media player,


and i think ive just sussed why it wouldnt work...


i,ll be back in a mo



mart

 

i am pretty sure to play DivX via WMCE you need to use Transcode?

 

tversity is what you need

 

mart you really must be trying to over complicate it. it's a piece of **** to sort. Are you retarded or a woman? only way I could explain the problems you have

 

Found out why it wouldnt play video in MCE no divx drivers doh..

their now installed and it plays on the main pc using WMCE

still wont stream video to the 360 though. small mpegs work ok, but movies

hmm

will have another go tommorow


Mart

 

MCE doesn't stream divx to the 360.

 

AFAIK Divx is only native to 360, not streamed, thats where transcode and i believe there's another similar program available that does similar.

 

christ. the 360 if updated via live will play divx and xvid. I've been watching 24 tonight streamed from my PC. just go to the media blade and select video then access the shared files on your pc and play. you may need to download the video codec on first play from the 360 but that's it then. works great.

try google chaps...

 

Media centre extender eg a 360 won't do divx via the Media centre interface. Divx only from the media blade then looking for the PC.

MCE or Vista needs an update before DIVX will stream to an extender.

 

And therein lies the problem...

for some bizzare reason, the 360 will not see any computer supposedly attached to the xbox

it finds it via media centre, and odd proggys find it media player. zune on the odd occasion. but neither will handshake with each other.

been down all the settings route, even had the bloody router sitting next to the xbox....nada..zip


Mart

 

 

ive had to phone MS i still cant get the sodding thing to change from the wifes lappy

arghhhhh


mart

 

never ever used this media center thing, i just select the source as the desktop and select the file

 

Ok, lets mimic your setup

What router have you got & the router settings

what OS

what firewall & settings

what settings on the xbox for your wireless dongle




ive managed to get it to see the desktop pc, but will it heck as like stream media from media player

i may try some of the other media stuff later


mart