media sharing

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Hi there, I am looking to stream media from my PC to my phone or TV. The problem is, I have to use the Public folder currently to do so, which works fine. (When I click on the icon for my PC on the media app on the TV/Phone, it can only see files in the Public folder.) Problem being, I have a...

What I want to do is send music/videos through my pc to my iphone through wifi. I had done it few times. But now i am not being able to do it for some reasons. So, i install apps like VLC and other music and video player in my iphone and turn on the wifi sharing. Then they will give me a certain...

I am supposed to be able to connect to my Sony bravia Smart TV by wifi to a win 7-win 8 PC but I cannot get windows or the TV to see each other. (Also the TV aint all that smart. It has a great 3D engine but the quality control must have gone off at Sony because the build quality sucks & online...

Hi, I have a problem where my custom win 7 computer won't sleep. The PC will wake 5 seconds later after i push sleep.. No devices are showing up as armed in the CMD with powercfg. When i go to last wake it shows nothing. I have disabled all settings like media sharing and in device manger. If...

I have all my media on a Windows 8 Pro (64bit) desktop. I have the drives that I want to share set to "everyone" and "full control". I set them in the advanced sharing tab. My other desktop on the network can connect and access all other drives, folders and files just fine. I don't have...

Hi folks. I'm wondering if there is a way with Windows 8 Pro to stream the music i'm playing from my laptop to my Xbox 360 without visiting the 360. Basically "airplay" for Windows. Is this possible?

Yes there are Homegroup computers currently available - :o. I have two computers running Windows 7 that belong to the same work group and appear in the same DHCP table. I went to Network Sharing Center > HomeGroup; clicked on View password and obtained a 10 digit code. I entered the 10 digit...

Good Evening All - I have a quick question regarding accounts and shared media across Microsoft accounts. I've had an Xbox 360 since release, and with that an Xbox Video setup as well. Over the years I've purchased a shameful amount of TV shows. Well, I was quite excited with the release...

First sorry about spelling. I just wanted to know how to set up media sharing between media player and my Xbox as IV never liked media center and alot of my films are not a compatible format. So I use media sharing but since updating to this preview program I can't seem to set it up can any...

hello as the title suggests I'm having problems with windows media player on windows 7. Ive now had 4 fresh installs of 7 since its release (4 too many?) and every time i get the same wmp problem its either wmplayer.exe or the sharing service using 25%. Ive looked all over the net and no proper...

Hi there. I was previously running Windows Vista and have recently upgraded to Windows 7. Previously I mapped a network drive wirelessly to a network media player with a hard drive, and shared video/music wirelessly with my Playstation 3. Immediately following the upgrade, everything was still...

I have two computers. Dell Inspiron 560 (new this year) running Windows 7 64 bit and HP Slimline Media Center running Windows 7 32 bit (2007 model, i clean installed Win 7 on it). I ripped all my CDs to WAV on the Dell. I am using Homegroup. Installing Windows 7 on the HP was a nightmare...

As I'm clicking "Play To - Xbox Media Center Extender" on my Windows 7 Laptop, I'm getting an error message of my Xbox 360/TV screen that says... "Windows Media Center cannot find the specified file. Be sure the path is typed correctly. If it is, the file does not exist at the specified...

Hello Everyone, I've been a long time browser of this forum and finally got a problem worthy of your help. Anyways, I'm trying to setup a Windows 7 network sharing. But the main problem is when I go to explorer and network, I can see all the host names of my computer in my home group...

I previously owned a XP Media Center PC and a XP Pro laptop. I had them networked on a wireless N network, which also included my Xbox 360. I never had any issue transferring files between the PC and Laptop or streaming videos/music to my 360. Fast forward. I now have a new PC and a...

I have identified a major security issue with sharing when sharing to a PS3. Setup: I have no homegroup set up. I am using a work network. I am allowing my libraries to be shared to my PS3. In order to share music, videos, and pictures to my PS3, I must simply add them to a library and they...

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Recently my computer has been freezing or locking up to where everything cant be moved and i have to hard shutdown or press the reset button. This only happens when i am media sharing with my xbox 360 and ps3. I dont run media center for it i only share my folders with windows media player for...

Apologies for this, as I know this has probably been covered multiple times. I have read everywhere, but cannot get this to work. Here's the set up: I have a WD MyBook connected to my new Win7 notebook. I right clicked on the drive and selected advanced sharing. I called the shared name...