Pain in the Tech comments on [Stream video to Xbox 360 with Winamp Remote and Windows Media Player]

Comment on [Stream video to Xbox 360 with Winamp Remote and Windows Media Player] by Hilikus

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 12:44:29 -0800

this seems like alot of hard work.

If you use vuze, you can easily share videos with your Xbox and it\'s a torrent download manager check out this tutorial - http://bit.ly/aNVpL0

Comment on [Stream video to Xbox 360 with Winamp Remote and Windows Media Player] by Stew

Sun, 27 Dec 2009 12:33:01 -0800

Cant find a video format that can reliably encode videos for the XBOX360 via Windows Media Player 11. I use Mediacoder to encode the files.

Comment on [Stream video to Xbox 360 with Winamp Remote and Windows Media Player] by DanielssoN

Fri, 03 Apr 2009 05:39:56 -0700

Okey, My Windows media player is fucked up , before it i could stream videos and music perfectly, but now it wont add files to its library, and all the movies and music has been removed, then i dowloaded Zune, but it WONT recognize the video i want to stream ! just the default videos that is in the computer from the beginning !

Help ?

Comment on [Stream video to Xbox 360 with Winamp Remote and Windows Media Player] by Dream

Fri, 27 Mar 2009 07:43:54 -0700

Thanks! Worked like a champ... wish I could get it work with MCE, but this'l do!

Comment on [Stream video to Xbox 360 with Winamp Remote and Windows Media Player] by Josh

Fri, 06 Mar 2009 18:12:27 -0800

I am having trouble viewing videos that are not of the wmv file type. I tried TVersity but got fed up with trying to make it work. I downloaded the K-Lite codec pack in the hopes that it would stream avi's and mp4's since the pack allowed wmp11 to play them. Still didn't help. I have xbox live on my 360 and believe I am current on all updates. I have tried viewing the videos from the video library on the dashboard and also through Windows Media Center. Still no success playing anything but wmv's. Has anyone else run into this same problem. Thank you for any help.

Comment on [Stream video to Xbox 360 with Winamp Remote and Windows Media Player] by Xio

Fri, 06 Mar 2009 16:33:57 -0800

Erik, you may need to either set up an ethernet cable directly to your comp or request to your university to unblock(Or port forward) whichever port the 360 application uses to stream to your 360.

Comment on [Stream video to Xbox 360 with Winamp Remote and Windows Media Player] by Erik

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 13:48:23 -0800

I am having a similar problem to Brian. I am on vista and trying to set up media sharing with my xbox 360 via WMP11. My computer finds my xbox, but my xbox does not find my computer. I have disabled all firewalls, enabled network discovery, enabled file sharing in WMP11. I also tried zune but had similar results. I am on a university network so possibly the school's router is blocking sharing between the two. any ideas?

Comment on [Stream video to Xbox 360 with Winamp Remote and Windows Media Player] by brian

Wed, 18 Feb 2009 20:35:55 -0800

Please help!!! I've been trying to stream media from my WinXp MP11 to my xbox360 and I've hit a wall. After downgrading to service pack 2, opening every conceivable port on my pc and router, I cant get the xbox to find my computer. My pc see's the xbox. I've turned off all firewalls (Panda and windows) and talked to xbox cus. support for literally hours. Any ideas???

thx brian

Comment on [Stream video to Xbox 360 with Winamp Remote and Windows Media Player] by Phil_na

Sun, 18 Jan 2009 15:06:15 -0800

I have two laptops and my xbox networked via a wireless router.

I am streaming media via windows media player 11 and zune on both laptops.

When I go to video library on my xbox the xbox see’s both the windows media player 11 and zune servers from one laptop (laptop A) immediately and I can view video files without any problems through both WMP 11 and Zune.

The second laptop (laptop B) on the other hand has a problem. On the select source page of the xbox it takes about 2 minutes before laptop 2 is displayed (it shows both the WMP 11 and Zune servers) and when I try to connect to laptop 2 the xbox displays a “searching” message for about a minute then I get an error message “cannot connect to the pc. A firewall may be blocking the connection .” I have turned the firewall off on laptop 2. Can anyone offer me any advise as to what the problem might be?

Comment on [Stream video to Xbox 360 with Winamp Remote and Windows Media Player] by E

Sat, 06 Dec 2008 11:07:09 -0800

Ryan, You just need to add those folders to whatever program you are streaming from. If the program can monitor the new folders on the new drive everything should work fine.

Comment on [Stream video to Xbox 360 with Winamp Remote and Windows Media Player] by Ryan

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 02:24:26 -0800

i got a new hard-drive added it switched all my media to the drive. and i added the new folder to wmp11 and now i cant stream my files any ideas?

Comment on [Stream video to Xbox 360 with Winamp Remote and Windows Media Player] by woodsman

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 14:31:08 -0800

WMV method works like a charm, even files that wont play through the media centre on xbox.

thank you!

Comment on [Stream video to Xbox 360 with Winamp Remote and Windows Media Player] by oL GoodGuys Manager

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 01:24:23 -0700

I agree with Andrew...quality speakers are now magnetically shielded. You only run into that problem if you have really old 80's speakers or less...possibly cheap home theater in a box systems as well. You get what you pay for with surround sound speakers.

Comment on [Stream video to Xbox 360 with Winamp Remote and Windows Media Player] by Andrew Frame

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 07:53:07 -0700

Center channel speakers from most, if not all, quality speaker companies are magnetically shielded, specifically design not to interfere with other electronic components.

Comment on [Stream video to Xbox 360 with Winamp Remote and Windows Media Player] by Shane

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 09:45:33 -0700

Just an observation, but having that center speaker with that real nice magnet may cause you some damage with all that rotating media in say your DVR, Xbox360, etc.

Just helpin a brother out.

Comment on [Stream video to Xbox 360 with Winamp Remote and Windows Media Player] by Brian

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 10:06:32 -0700

I finally got this sorted out thanx to this page!!! I tried and failed with both MCE encoder, and TVersity...both of which seemed way more complicated than the VERY simple WMP 11 solution above. My 360 and MCE PC were already linked via the media extender, so adding the files to the windows media player library was all I needed to do. Now I can watch all my divx downloads on my tv...wirelessly...which RULES!!!! My only beef is that the video quality suffers on the bigger (HD) screen...but that was to be expected.

Comment on [Stream video to Xbox 360 with Winamp Remote and Windows Media Player] by Nate

Sun, 14 Sep 2008 11:33:37 -0700

You may want to look at some other clients to stream your media to your PS3. There is Tversity, Twonkymedia, Orb, Fuppes, Medialink, EyeConnect, etc.

So far I believe that Twonkymedia is the best for Windows and Medialink for Mac users. If you need some help setting them up, I have a few tutorials available to make it as painless as possible. http://blog.hillbillyhardware.net then click on the PS3 tab.

I am going to look at the Winamp Remote but I have a feeling that I am going to be very frustrated from what I am reading here. Tversity worked well earlier this year, but I have my preferences.

Comment on [Stream video to Xbox 360 with Winamp Remote and Windows Media Player] by XBOX360 Streaming Video

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 22:08:24 -0700

I agree Winamp Remote is slow, very SLOW. Im hoping that there will be some update to prevent so many glitches with playback. I think its still easier / better to just use a DIVX compatible dvd player with movies burned to DVDRW. A great player is here: Magnavox MWD7006

Comment on [Stream video to Xbox 360 with Winamp Remote and Windows Media Player] by mike

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 17:13:29 -0700

Sweet this helped me, I also stream from NAS and couldn't get WMP working.

Comment on [Stream video to Xbox 360 with Winamp Remote and Windows Media Player] by Andrew Frame

Thu, 14 Feb 2008 13:38:09 -0800

Check out the Video Playback FAQ: http://www.xbox.com/en-US/support/systemuse/xbox360/digitalmedia/videoplaybackfaq.htm

Hope this helps answer your questions.