Has anyone successfully connected their PC to their Xbox 360 for video streaming via the new TVersity media server? Try as I might, I just can’t get my 360 to recognize it. It recognizes shared video from Windows Media Player 11 just fine, but when I turn off media sharing there and try to access TVersity’s media sharing, the 360 can no longer find my PC.
I’ve been through TVersity’s troubleshooting and feel like I’ve tried everything but still no dice. What am I missing? Can anyone help?
I had a lot of reboots involved, and still don’t quite know how I got it to finally work. My best guess, however:
Make sure media sharing’s off in WMP11. Uninstall the Zune software if for some reason you actually installed it like Microsoft would desperately prefer people to do.
Get rid of both TVersity and the FFDshow bits. This is just for simplicity’s sake, I’m not saying it’s actually needed.
Reinstall the latest FFDshow. Make sure it’s actually the latest–it’s apparently one of those sourceforge projects with umpty forks, most of which are laughably out of date. I grabbed the clsid build from here. I think I pretty much checked everything on the install.
Reinstall Tversity. Reboot–I don’t think this is necessary to actually get the media server service running, but I had to because the gui was acting downright wonky on me without it.
Fire up the gui for it. Settings tab, set the media playback device to Xbox 360 instead of auto-detect. Under transcoder, set it to ‘always.’ Add whatever folders you’d like to share bits from.
Open up its port in the firewall. What the hell, reboot again.
Now on the 360 side, go the usual video->computer route. When it asks if you’ve installed etc., say yes. It’ll promptly fail to find anything. But at this point, you should be able to tell it to connect to another computer–which is the point at which it finally saw mine.
Now I just have to wait till a new version of TVersity fixes a little problem where video playback cuts off a minute before the end, and pray I can get it working again.
Honestly, there may need to be some sort of santeria-style animal sacrifice in that process, too.
I thought I read that you should uninstall wmp11 when you install tversity, afetr that, reinstall it. I do know they supposedly work fine side-by-side once setup, so there’s no reason to shut off wmp11’s sharing.
After I completely shut off my Windows Firewall, it worked. I don’t want to keep it shut off though so I need to go back into the firewall and figure out how to correctly enter the exception for the tversity server. But at least I found the problem…
Okay, another question… the videos I actually want to share on the list are swamped by over a thousand “internet videos” provided by TVersity that I have no interest in at all. How do I delete them/get them off the list?
EDIT: Figured it out.
Oh yeah, those prepackaged feeds are so thoughtful of them.
Firewall-wise, it’s port 41952, by the way. Control Panel->Windows Firewall->exceptions tab->add should work.
That is one god-awful name for a product. Eeww. I don’t even know what it is, and I don’t like it.
Now I’m going to have to go find out what it does.
edit: oh, universal WMV converter and media center surrogate. Handy.