Recommendation for Media Distribution

From: Mars (Mars_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 12/02/04 

Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 07:29:04 -0800

I'm trying to understand how best to design my home media network. Basically
I'm interested in streaming music and pictures stored on my main home
computer which is currently running XP SP2. I'd like to distribute my music &
pictures to the TV in our family room as well as to one in the basement which
also has an XBOX attached to it. So in order to use the XBOX extender it
requires a Media Center PC. In order to "upgrade" my existing PC I *think* I
need to add/replace my video, plus add a TV tuner even though I'm not
interested in the TV features of MCE. In the living area (where there is no
XBOX) I'd presumably use a media extender such as D-Link or Linksys. My
understanding is that these use Media Connect and based on some posts is not
compatible with MCE. Please help me out by confirming or correcting my
understanding here and suggesting viable approaches to take.

Relevant Pages

  • Possibly OT: Media PC
    ... I'm thinking of putting together a home media network: ... NAS device to store music/video and a media PC in the lounge to ... player (and possibly recorder) and a fairly large internal hard drive ...
    (uk.tech.digital-tv)
  • Re: Xbox 360 does not see Media Center PC - AGAIN
    ... Microsoft Windows MVP/Tablet PC ... reason it does not now is becuase the Xbox can not see the PC? ... i.e. finshed install becuase it can not find ... While I can still have access to add/delete "Media Center ...
    (microsoft.public.windows.mediacenter)
  • Re: Xbox 360 does not see Media Center PC - AGAIN
    ... reason it does not now is becuase the Xbox can not see the PC? ... i.e. finshed install becuase it can not find xbox ... Microsoft Windows MVP/Tablet PC ... While I can still have access to add/delete "Media Center ...
    (microsoft.public.windows.mediacenter)
  • Re: Xbox 360 does not see Media Center PC - AGAIN
    ... Microsoft Windows MVP/Tablet PC ... Looked at logs, security, Media Center etc. nothing jumps out. ... pc" in Xbox so that I could get another 8 digit code for the reinstall ... up getting botted out of the install after 3 attempts. ...
    (microsoft.public.windows.mediacenter)
  • Re: Xbox 360 does not see Media Center PC - AGAIN
    ... Nope no third party firewall, only Windows, have multiple times confirmed ... reason it does not now is becuase the Xbox can not see the PC? ... i.e. finshed install becuase it can not find ... While I can still have access to add/delete "Media Center ...
    (microsoft.public.windows.mediacenter)