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default video player cant see folders on PC

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  • 28-11-2012 11:31pm
    #1
    Gaspode
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    I have my xbox360 connected to a PC for watching videos. I tend not to use the Media centre app for playing videos as it wont play .avi movies 90% of the time, and the default player will. (Media centre is such a total pain really, I would rather not use it at all).

    Recently though I have found that the xbox video player can no longer the folders on my pc when browsing for movies, even though Media centre can see all these folders.

    Does anyone know how I can get the xbox video player to see folders, or where the settings for this might be? I have the appropriate file sharing options set up on the pc, and everything was working perfectly up to a couple of days ago.


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    mr.noobie
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    Pretty sure you have to add the folders your videos are in to your library in windows media player for them to appear on your 360


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    Meesared
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    You could also ditch Media Player, and use something like TVersity, which would be much more compatible in terms of format?


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    Gaspode
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    mr.noobie wrote: »
    Pretty sure you have to add the folders your videos are in to your library in windows media player for them to appear on your 360

    All the relevant folders are added in media player, and can be browsed OK from the Xbox using media centre.
    Meesared wrote: »
    You could also ditch Media Player, and use something like TVersity, which would be much more compatible in terms of format?

    I'll have to look into that one, havent heard of it. Is that downloaded via the xbox or onto the pc?

    Thanks.


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    Meesared
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    On the PC


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    GAAman
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    Meesared wrote: »
    You could also ditch Media Player, and use something like TVersity, which would be much more compatible in terms of format?

    Tversity have decided to no longer offer a free service and because of problems with it I refuse to pay, so I switched to ps3 media server which is free

    Have not looked back since!


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    ablelocks
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    I would also recommend ps3media server - have been using it since I upgraded to windows 8 (there's an issue with streaming to xbox) and it does the job perfectly.

    mind you, I really liked media centre when I used it with windows 7, never had any issue with it bar one or 2 files that it wouldn't play, but most of my files are .avi videos.


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    Gaspode
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    Cheers guys, installed media server and I'm back in business. Much appreciated.

    (if I could just figure out an easy way to get the xbox to play mp4 or mov files I'd be rightly set up!)


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