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Network help (streaming files to my TV)
Hi everybody, I'm having real issues getting what i thought would be a
simple setup to work on my rig, I'll explain what i want to do first and then the hardware i have second, finally i will supply link to the various hardware in case you need to refer to that. I have one one corner of my living my desk which has the main PC, the router (provided by my ISP O2 and is a re-badged Thomson SpeedTouch TG587nv2) and a few external hard drives, in a word me and my computer stuff are all shoved in a corner (ring any bells?), now about 10 meters away (cable run) is my Sony Bravia KDL-46EX723, right now there is a simple old PVR (Humax 9200T) connected via a scart lead and then my normal DVD (Toshiba SD3005) going into one of the HDMI sockets on the TV, this all works fine I forgot to mention the TV is plugged into the router via cable NOT wireless. As it stands right now if i want to watch video files that are on my PC on the TV I have to bung them on a USB stick and move them over, now that's not the end of the world, but the Sony is picky about media so I have been looking at these "Media Players" and i did narrow it down to the WD TV Live (Gen 3 SMP) and the Apple 2 TV, but in the end i went for the WD as it did 1080p out of the box as well as mkv, and from my understanding the ATV2 will only do 720 and no MKV support, however when you jailbrake it i hear along with XBMC it can do wonders with on-line streaming etc. However I have had the WD for a few days now and for the life of me i can't get the damm thing to see my PC, even WD are stumped and 2nd line support are coming back to me in the next day or so to see if they can help, as it stands now i have 6 hard drives in the tower, and one is no name external USB enclosure, however my plans are to plug 2 new 2TB drives in my IcyBox IB-RD4320StU3 in RAID1 (i think it's 1 it's mirroring anyway) and then have that linked into my WD via Ethernet cable, as i say I alter what is on my media drive almost every day so plugged into WD via USB is out of the question plus i want the safe guard of RAID in case it goes down. Now i'm fairly happy working with a PC but i'd be the first to admit that i know almost nothing about networking (well i think that's what it's called), I don't even know how to share a folder between my PC and laptops, but you can see from above what i want to achieve, does anyone know if this is even possible using the IcyBox or any other kind of RAID box that will be connected to a USB 3 card and then allow me to have it working with the WD TV Live? My motherboard is an older Asus P5E3 Prem http://uk.asus.com/Motherboards/Inte...remiumWiFiAP_n Sony Bravia KDL-46EX723 http://www.sony.co.uk/product/tv-117-46-lcd/kdl-46ex723 O2 wireless Router http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O2_wireless_box Humax 9200T (reviews) http://reviews.cnet.co.uk/tv-recorde...eview-39194399 http://www.amazon.co.uk/Humax-PVR920.../dp/B000BO2F6M IcyBox IB-RD4320StU3 http://www.raidsonic.de/en/products/..._objectID=7059 |
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Network help (streaming files to my TV)
Jim wrote:
Hi everybody, I'm having real issues getting what i thought would be a simple setup to work on my rig, I'll explain what i want to do first and then the hardware i have second, finally i will supply link to the various hardware in case you need to refer to that. I have one one corner of my living my desk which has the main PC, the router (provided by my ISP O2 and is a re-badged Thomson SpeedTouch TG587nv2) and a few external hard drives, in a word me and my computer stuff are all shoved in a corner (ring any bells?), now about 10 meters away (cable run) is my Sony Bravia KDL-46EX723, right now there is a simple old PVR (Humax 9200T) connected via a scart lead and then my normal DVD (Toshiba SD3005) going into one of the HDMI sockets on the TV, this all works fine I forgot to mention the TV is plugged into the router via cable NOT wireless. As it stands right now if i want to watch video files that are on my PC on the TV I have to bung them on a USB stick and move them over, now that's not the end of the world, but the Sony is picky about media so I have been looking at these "Media Players" and i did narrow it down to the WD TV Live (Gen 3 SMP) and the Apple 2 TV, but in the end i went for the WD as it did 1080p out of the box as well as mkv, and from my understanding the ATV2 will only do 720 and no MKV support, however when you jailbrake it i hear along with XBMC it can do wonders with on-line streaming etc. However I have had the WD for a few days now and for the life of me i can't get the damm thing to see my PC, even WD are stumped and 2nd line support are coming back to me in the next day or so to see if they can help, as it stands now i have 6 hard drives in the tower, and one is no name external USB enclosure, however my plans are to plug 2 new 2TB drives in my IcyBox IB-RD4320StU3 in RAID1 (i think it's 1 it's mirroring anyway) and then have that linked into my WD via Ethernet cable, as i say I alter what is on my media drive almost every day so plugged into WD via USB is out of the question plus i want the safe guard of RAID in case it goes down. Now i'm fairly happy working with a PC but i'd be the first to admit that i know almost nothing about networking (well i think that's what it's called), I don't even know how to share a folder between my PC and laptops, but you can see from above what i want to achieve, does anyone know if this is even possible using the IcyBox or any other kind of RAID box that will be connected to a USB 3 card and then allow me to have it working with the WD TV Live? My motherboard is an older Asus P5E3 Prem http://uk.asus.com/Motherboards/Inte...remiumWiFiAP_n Sony Bravia KDL-46EX723 http://www.sony.co.uk/product/tv-117-46-lcd/kdl-46ex723 O2 wireless Router http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O2_wireless_box Humax 9200T (reviews) http://reviews.cnet.co.uk/tv-recorde...eview-39194399 http://www.amazon.co.uk/Humax-PVR920.../dp/B000BO2F6M IcyBox IB-RD4320StU3 http://www.raidsonic.de/en/products/..._objectID=7059 If I crack open the specs for the TV, it support "DLNA". http://www.sony.lv/product/tv-117-46...3/tab/overview There is some suggestion here, to make a PC into a DLNA server. That doesn't tell me though, how permissions or the like are handled, or what folders are offered. One other multimedia product, came with software you load on the PC itself, to somehow aid a DNLA setup (making me wonder whether it's really necessary or not). http://www.ehow.com/how_6945372_make...erver-ps3.html According to this, DLNA uses UPnP. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital...twork_Alliance http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Plug_and_Play In the other direction, you can add an optional item to the network control panel on the PC, such that UPnP devices show up in some map. But I don't know what benefit you'd get from this, other than yet another reboot to find out :-) http://support.microsoft.com/kb/821980 For me to do this stuff, I'd have to be sitting in front of the gear, trying one thing after another. And being careful to backtrack, if some added widget isn't helping. One problem I have with researching this stuff, is articles that "tell you how to enable X", seldom explain what protocols X uses, what ports have to be open, and how "X" might relate to some thing you might like to get working. And that makes it very hard to say "do this and this", because the articles just don't have details. Paul |
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Network help (streaming files to my TV)
In article , Paul wrote:
Jim wrote: Hi everybody, I'm having real issues getting what i thought would be a simple setup to work on my rig, I'll explain what i want to do first and then the hardware i have second, finally i will supply link to the various hardware in case you need to refer to that. I have one one corner of my living my desk which has the main PC, the router (provided by my ISP O2 and is a re-badged Thomson SpeedTouch TG587nv2) and a few external hard drives, in a word me and my computer stuff are all shoved in a corner (ring any bells?), now about 10 meters away (cable run) is my Sony Bravia KDL-46EX723, right now there is a simple old PVR (Humax 9200T) connected via a scart lead and then my normal DVD (Toshiba SD3005) going into one of the HDMI sockets on the TV, this all works fine I forgot to mention the TV is plugged into the router via cable NOT wireless. As it stands right now if i want to watch video files that are on my PC on the TV I have to bung them on a USB stick and move them over, now that's not the end of the world, but the Sony is picky about media so I have been looking at these "Media Players" and i did narrow it down to the WD TV Live (Gen 3 SMP) and the Apple 2 TV, but in the end i went for the WD as it did 1080p out of the box as well as mkv, and from my understanding the ATV2 will only do 720 and no MKV support, however when you jailbrake it i hear along with XBMC it can do wonders with on-line streaming etc. However I have had the WD for a few days now and for the life of me i can't get the damm thing to see my PC, even WD are stumped and 2nd line support are coming back to me in the next day or so to see if they can help, as it stands now i have 6 hard drives in the tower, and one is no name external USB enclosure, however my plans are to plug 2 new 2TB drives in my IcyBox IB-RD4320StU3 in RAID1 (i think it's 1 it's mirroring anyway) and then have that linked into my WD via Ethernet cable, as i say I alter what is on my media drive almost every day so plugged into WD via USB is out of the question plus i want the safe guard of RAID in case it goes down. Now i'm fairly happy working with a PC but i'd be the first to admit that i know almost nothing about networking (well i think that's what it's called), I don't even know how to share a folder between my PC and laptops, but you can see from above what i want to achieve, does anyone know if this is even possible using the IcyBox or any other kind of RAID box that will be connected to a USB 3 card and then allow me to have it working with the WD TV Live? My motherboard is an older Asus P5E3 Prem http://uk.asus.com/Motherboards/Inte...remiumWiFiAP_n Sony Bravia KDL-46EX723 http://www.sony.co.uk/product/tv-117-46-lcd/kdl-46ex723 O2 wireless Router http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O2_wireless_box Humax 9200T (reviews) http://reviews.cnet.co.uk/tv-recorde...200t-review-39 194399 http://www.amazon.co.uk/Humax-PVR920.../dp/B000BO2F6M IcyBox IB-RD4320StU3 http://www.raidsonic.de/en/products/..._objectID=7059 If I crack open the specs for the TV, it support "DLNA". http://www.sony.lv/product/tv-117-46...3/tab/overview There is some suggestion here, to make a PC into a DLNA server. That doesn't tell me though, how permissions or the like are handled, or what folders are offered. One other multimedia product, came with software you load on the PC itself, to somehow aid a DNLA setup (making me wonder whether it's really necessary or not). http://www.ehow.com/how_6945372_make...erver-ps3.html According to this, DLNA uses UPnP. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital...twork_Alliance http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Plug_and_Play In the other direction, you can add an optional item to the network control panel on the PC, such that UPnP devices show up in some map. But I don't know what benefit you'd get from this, other than yet another reboot to find out :-) http://support.microsoft.com/kb/821980 For me to do this stuff, I'd have to be sitting in front of the gear, trying one thing after another. And being careful to backtrack, if some added widget isn't helping. One problem I have with researching this stuff, is articles that "tell you how to enable X", seldom explain what protocols X uses, what ports have to be open, and how "X" might relate to some thing you might like to get working. And that makes it very hard to say "do this and this", because the articles just don't have details. Paul Paul is correct. You must use either some third party software to share the media on the pc using DLNA, or you just go into windows media player or if you have itunes, you can go into it and deep in one of themenues you tell it to share media. Once that is fone and you tell it what folders etc to share, your WD box will see the directies and files on your pc. Any other device like a PS3 or XBOX360 will see them too. You didnt say what OS your using so heres how to get it to work on XP http://www.agoraquest.com/viewtopic....35037&forum=70 And hers how on Windows 7 http://windows.microsoft. com/en-US/windows7/Stream-your-media-to-devices-and-computers-using-Windows-Me dia-Player |
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