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I'm running Windows 7 x64 Release Candidate and I've been using it to stream media using WMP to the Xbox 360. Currently it works fine and I am able to play and watch movies, but the problem is that I can't figure out how to share other folders to it. Currently it only displays My Videos, Recorded TV, and Shared Videos. I'm trying to share my videos folder stored on an external hard drive. I went ahead and added it to the WMP library. I also added it to the folders listed under the Windows 7 Libraries for Video. However, it still refuses to show up. Am I doing something wrong here or is this just possibly a glitch of WMP12 and Xbox360?

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yea since WMP12 has come out, i have had lots of problems sharing with xbox360.. i too woul dbe interested with this!

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yea since WMP12 has come out, i have had lots of problems sharing with xbox360.. i too woul dbe interested with this!

I'm starting to think that somethings buggy about WMP12. I tried re-adding my external video folder to WMP and while it was adding it, WMP crashed.

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Within WMP12 click organize then manage libraries then click videos, add the directory that you have your movies saved to,

then after your movies have been added to the WMP library click stream and then "automatically allow devices to play my media" this will allow streaming ov divx/xvid, wmp and mp4

if you want to stream mkv files google PS3server.

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I actually found the solution and the folder is added. I had to go into Stream- More Streaming Options- Xbox 360 (customize)- I unchecked the use defaults and said stream ALL. It worked after that.

What's the crash data for that crash?

I went ahead and got the crash report for you. It only happens when I try to view the Videos library in WMP. The library actually finished adding the videos, but when I try to view the Videos I get the crash. No descriptive errors off hand, just asks if I want to debug. I followed the steps and got this for you...

Description
Faulting Application Path:	C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Media Player\wmplayer.exe

Problem signature
Problem Event Name:	APPCRASH
Application Name:	wmplayer.exe
Application Version:	12.0.7100.0
Application Timestamp:	49ee97f5
Fault Module Name:	ad2mpgdmux.dll
Fault Module Version:	7.5.0.32179
Fault Module Timestamp:	4860c32b
Exception Code:	c0000005
Exception Offset:	00010864
OS Version:	6.1.7100.2.0.0.256.1
Locale ID:	1033
Additional Information 1:	a7aa
Additional Information 2:	a7aa91f17ea749d42a4de3b390fa5b3d
Additional Information 3:	a7aa
Additional Information 4:	a7aa91f17ea749d42a4de3b390fa5b3d

Within WMP12 click organize then manage libraries then click videos, add the directory that you have your movies saved to,

then after your movies have been added to the WMP library click stream and then "automatically allow devices to play my media" this will allow streaming ov divx/xvid, wmp and mp4

if you want to stream mkv files google PS3server.

I did all of those steps if you couldn't already tell from the first post.

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I went ahead and got the crash report for you. It only happens when I try to view the Videos library in WMP. The library actually finished adding the videos, but when I try to view the Videos I get the crash. No descriptive errors off hand, just asks if I want to debug. I followed the steps and got this for you...
Description

Faulting Application Path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Media Player\wmplayer.exe

Problem signature

Problem Event Name: APPCRASH

Application Name: wmplayer.exe

Application Version: 12.0.7100.0

Application Timestamp: 49ee97f5

Fault Module Name: ad2mpgdmux.dll

Fault Module Version: 7.5.0.32179

Fault Module Timestamp: 4860c32b

Exception Code: c0000005

Exception Offset: 00010864

This one should be pretty easy - see the Adobe/MainConcept MPEG demuxer dll there (ad2mpgdmux.dll)? That's probably the problem.

You could follow up with Adobe support about this. I suspect that they or MainConcept would be the people who would need to fix this. They might have an updated version of that filter. Or you could unregister, remove, or delete it.

The RTM version of Windows 7 may be more stable here: generally WMP tries to be better about preferring the tested-for-Windows-7 MS filters as opposed to random filters that might not have been tested for Windows 7.

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This one should be pretty easy - see the Adobe/MainConcept MPEG demuxer dll there (ad2mpgdmux.dll)? That's probably the problem.

You could follow up with Adobe support about this. I suspect that they or MainConcept would be the people who would need to fix this. They might have an updated version of that filter. Or you could unregister, remove, or delete it.

The RTM version of Windows 7 may be more stable here: generally WMP tries to be better about preferring the tested-for-Windows-7 MS filters as opposed to random filters that might not have been tested for Windows 7.

Yeah it looks like it got installed with Adobe Premiere CS4. I don't want to remove it because it might affect Premiere. What would unregistering do to it?

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Zune player works the best for sharing from Windows 7 or anything it's fast and updates in real time unlike Media Center and WMP.

I'm running Windows 7 x64 Release Candidate and I've been using it to stream media using WMP to the Xbox 360. Currently it works fine and I am able to play and watch movies, but the problem is that I can't figure out how to share other folders to it. Currently it only displays My Videos, Recorded TV, and Shared Videos. I'm trying to share my videos folder stored on an external hard drive. I went ahead and added it to the WMP library. I also added it to the folders listed under the Windows 7 Libraries for Video. However, it still refuses to show up. Am I doing something wrong here or is this just possibly a glitch of WMP12 and Xbox360?
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Yeah it looks like it got installed with Adobe Premiere CS4. I don't want to remove it because it might affect Premiere. What would unregistering do to it?
You'd want to check with Adobe support on that, since it appears to be an issue with their filter, and they'd know about fixing it or avoiding this type of problem.

This should be less likely to cause problems with WMP in the RTM version of Windows 7, where WMP will more actively try to avoid using filters that might be broken.

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If you add the needed MKV registry keys so WMP supports MKV it should then play those files on the 360 right? Unless you need to transcode those due to some funky codec problems. Most of the MKVs I have are h264 so I don't see why they wouldn't play.

I suppose to be on the safe side you'd be better of using a different app that will transcode mkvs for you.

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For Windows 7 / WMP 12.0 / WMC please view the following:

http://a8t8.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!2...8!797.entry

That's your bible to what will and wont stream to your Xbox 360 from Windows 7.

To simplify, if you want to stream AVI (Xvid, Divx or MPEG4 based) you are fine to do so through Dashboard or WMC.

Dashboard relies on WMP12.0 library, make sure any devices are set to be always allowed to share and that you manually override default share permissions to stream to include all rated files otherwise you'll only be able to access Star ratings of 4+ or whatever the default is. If you can't get it to display you can cheat but creating a short cut to your device in your main local library, this will cause the WMP robot to follow the path and the storage location (So long as it's a folder path e.g. D:\Music contains shortcut to H:\MP3\).

HD through WMP12.0

Mkv files will stream on 32bit Windows 7 RC natively but performance issues on 1080p during the live transcode (And buggy). DivX Labs have a technical preview demo that you can sign up for and test. Performance is good but quality on video is so so on 1080p content. Does not work well if file has been badly encoded or contains errors.

Mkv files dont stream correctly on 64bit Windows RC natively, many issues with stability (Tends to crash the Xbox 360 MC). DivX labs dont have a 64bit version available yet but they are working on it.

MP4 files will only work if they are in 2.0 AC3 for sound and not non-standard h.264 resolutions. Also MUST be < 4.47-ishGB in size or will not play / crash on seek.

In Windows 7 sometimes you need to make sure that WMP is running to kick the Media sharing service in. Sometimes your library will vanish for no reason in 64bit Windows 7 RC requiring the aforementioned step on startup.

HD through WMC 32bit / 64bit

Abandon using "Transcode 360" as it's prone to the above limitations for HD *if* you can get it working.

MP4 / h.264 / AC3 2.0 up to 6-8GB is ok, seeking broken on larger than 4.47GB.

m2ts (Known as AVCHD) / h.264 / AC3 5.1 is the holy grail for streaming, very reliable and of course full sound support. AAC causes out of sync issues with video, DTS doesn't work 9/10 times.

To transcode existing files to m2ts, get TsMuxer and MeGUI.

TsMuxer can convert mkv with h264 / AC3 directly at about 3-15mins per movie, otherwise you'll have to demux and reencode the audio if not AC3.

MeGUI is needed if DTS or AAC stream so you can convert to AC3, check Doom9 or Google for guides on how to do this.

Hope that helps.

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For Windows 7 / WMP 12.0 / WMC please view the following:

http://a8t8.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!2...8!797.entry

That's your bible to what will and wont stream to your Xbox 360 from Windows 7.

To simplify, if you want to stream AVI (Xvid, Divx or MPEG4 based) you are fine to do so through Dashboard or WMC.

Dashboard relies on WMP12.0 library, make sure any devices are set to be always allowed to share and that you manually override default share permissions to stream to include all rated files otherwise you'll only be able to access Star ratings of 4+ or whatever the default is. If you can't get it to display you can cheat but creating a short cut to your device in your main local library, this will cause the WMP robot to follow the path and the storage location (So long as it's a folder path e.g. D:\Music contains shortcut to H:\MP3\).

HD through WMP12.0

Mkv files will stream on 32bit Windows 7 RC natively but performance issues on 1080p during the live transcode (And buggy). DivX Labs have a technical preview demo that you can sign up for and test. Performance is good but quality on video is so so on 1080p content. Does not work well if file has been badly encoded or contains errors.

Mkv files dont stream correctly on 64bit Windows RC natively, many issues with stability (Tends to crash the Xbox 360 MC). DivX labs dont have a 64bit version available yet but they are working on it.

MP4 files will only work if they are in 2.0 AC3 for sound and not non-standard h.264 resolutions. Also MUST be < 4.47-ishGB in size or will not play / crash on seek.

In Windows 7 sometimes you need to make sure that WMP is running to kick the Media sharing service in. Sometimes your library will vanish for no reason in 64bit Windows 7 RC requiring the aforementioned step on startup.

HD through WMC 32bit / 64bit

Abandon using "Transcode 360" as it's prone to the above limitations for HD *if* you can get it working.

MP4 / h.264 / AC3 2.0 up to 6-8GB is ok, seeking broken on larger than 4.47GB.

m2ts (Known as AVCHD) / h.264 / AC3 5.1 is the holy grail for streaming, very reliable and of course full sound support. AAC causes out of sync issues with video, DTS doesn't work 9/10 times.

To transcode existing files to m2ts, get TsMuxer and MeGUI.

TsMuxer can convert mkv with h264 / AC3 directly at about 3-15mins per movie, otherwise you'll have to demux and reencode the audio if not AC3.

MeGUI is needed if DTS or AAC stream so you can convert to AC3, check Doom9 or Google for guides on how to do this.

Hope that helps.

Great post.

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Since windows 7 has native transcoding support via the GPU, I think apps should take advantage of it. Then the HD 1080p problems would go away.

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Since windows 7 has native transcoding support via the GPU, I think apps should take advantage of it. Then the HD 1080p problems would go away.

You'll find that you will experience similar limitations with GPU based transcoding requiring standard h264 resolutions or they wont be hardware accelerated transcodes.

Using ATi HD 4870 found more often than not there were issues mid playback which ruin things if you're trying to watch a film with your family etc.

Had some very weird video/audio sync issues on the Nvidia 9800 series I borrowed for testing. Playback was smooth but seemed either a few FPS faster or slower than the audio stream.

(Both using DVI output, not HDMI)

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Great post Aergan. I'm curious what test results would yield when run against Windows 7 RTM and the latest NXE Dashboard Update.

Thanks, will probably post results soon as Technet/MSDN start rolling out licenses &iso's.

Running current NXE beta atm, nothing media related has been altered or improved thus far (Both dash and WMC).

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I think it's about time MS just suppose MKV nativly, they went that extra step and added mp4 and mov, so come on. Most mkvs either have xvid or h264 video encoded in them anyways. It's just another container.

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