Streaming media

[Robbie]

Hey,

I've recently been given a spare computer and thought I'd make it a little media server for holding music and videos for playing on the other computers on the network, the PS3 and the Xboxes.

I've looked around for software and all I can find is TVersity which doesn't work right for me. So any others please.

Thanks and +rep.

[Recursion]

Windows Media Player 11.

[Robbie]

WMP + PS3 = Doesn't like it, never picks it up. Everything else does.

[Recursion]

:S Well thats crap.

Tried TVersity and made sure any firewalls aren't blocking it?

Also, Nokia do a Home Media thing that uses UPnP (the same as WMP11 and TVersity) made for the N-series phones, the site says it will work for consoles etc... too so you don't need a phone.

http://www.simplecenter.net/nokia/

[mb-group.net]

I'm not experienced with PS3 and xBox, but I think they can pick up shared folders within Windows. Then, the computers could also pick up the shared folders. Not so sure about this, I think you will need multiple apps running if that won't work. Hope this helps.

[Britz]

I use SimpleCenter.. Easy to use.. and the PS3 picks it up.. never got an error watching movies Either

[scottish]

Zune works for xbox 360.

[Jordy]

Zune works for xbox 360.

Yes but you can't get Zune's out of North America with out importing and even then you could get blocked

What about installing Windows Home Server, it's an OS, similar to Windows Server 2008 but also similar to Windows Vista, costs about £100. It's designed for the things you're doing but as it's rather uncommon you might struggle to torrent it.

[scottish]

Erm when i used to mess about with xbox i downloaded it off microsofts site fine and im in UK.

[Jordy]

Erm when i used to mess about with xbox i downloaded it off microsofts site fine and im in UK.

It won't even allow me to download the Zune software as I have a UK IP Address. I could use a bit of initive if I really wanted to download it but it shows MS don't want you to.