xp sees Sony tv, but Sony cant find WMP11 server?

Hi,

My wireless laptop shares media with TV through wireless router.

My desktop XP PC cant get the Sony Bravia TV to share. Tried with
router and with direct connection. WMP11 sees Sony, I allow sharing
but thats as far is gets.

Any ideas why?

Thanks Norman

"norm" wrote in message
...
Hi,

My wireless laptop shares media with TV through wireless router.

My desktop XP PC cant get the Sony Bravia TV to share. Tried with
router and with direct connection. WMP11 sees Sony, I allow sharing
but thats as far is gets.

Any ideas why?

Thanks Norman

Do you mean that you are trying to share media from Windows XP, shared using
WMP 11, to your Sony TV? If so, what is the format? DLNA (the protocol
used for sharing) is frankly crap because what I've found is that the TV's
or PVRs often support a very limited set of media formats.

My Panasonic TV will either not show the file, or the file appears but
attempts to play all fail, unless the media being shared is perfectly
correct.

FWIW I've managed to get my Panasonic to play from WMP running on XP but I
had to change the format of the video clip which I had copied off an old
Humax. It was a pain in the arse and frankly not worth it because the
playback quality just wasn't good enough. It's not bandwidth because my PVR
uses the same wireless link (off the same wireless AP) and it plays fine.

I've not tried streaming to my Humax (I have an HDR2-Fox) but I suppose I
should purely to prove whether it will work or not ;-).

Paul DS

On Tue, 4 Sep 2012 09:06:09 +0100, "Paul D Smith"
wrote:

"norm" wrote in message
...
Hi,

My wireless laptop shares media with TV through wireless router.

My desktop XP PC cant get the Sony Bravia TV to share. Tried with
router and with direct connection. WMP11 sees Sony, I allow sharing
but thats as far is gets.

Any ideas why?

Thanks Norman

Do you mean that you are trying to share media from Windows XP, shared using
WMP 11, to your Sony TV? If so, what is the format? DLNA (the protocol
used for sharing) is frankly crap because what I've found is that the TV's
or PVRs often support a very limited set of media formats.

My Panasonic TV will either not show the file, or the file appears but
attempts to play all fail, unless the media being shared is perfectly
correct.

FWIW I've managed to get my Panasonic to play from WMP running on XP but I
had to change the format of the video clip which I had copied off an old
Humax. It was a pain in the arse and frankly not worth it because the
playback quality just wasn't good enough. It's not bandwidth because my PVR
uses the same wireless link (off the same wireless AP) and it plays fine.

I've not tried streaming to my Humax (I have an HDR2-Fox) but I suppose I
should purely to prove whether it will work or not ;-).

Paul DS

"Do you mean that you are trying to share media from Windows XP,
shared using WMP 11, to your Sony TV?"

Yes. Laptop shares OK, Yes I found video formats limited but JPEGs OK.
MY problem is SONY cant find the desktop but can find laptop.
Norm

....snip...

"Do you mean that you are trying to share media from Windows XP,
shared using WMP 11, to your Sony TV?"

Yes. Laptop shares OK, Yes I found video formats limited but JPEGs OK.
MY problem is SONY cant find the desktop but can find laptop.
Norm

Can you see the XP desktop files from the laptop (if the laptop is Win 7,
then WMP 12+ should be able to stream/display from the XP desktop)?
Something like a firewall on the XP desktop could be blocking WMP 11 from
sharing.

I presume the XP desktop is wired to the same wireless router that serves
the laptop and TV with TV being wired? If TV, laptop and wireless router,
you might have inadvertently created an ad-hoc network between TV and
laptop - but that would stop laptop/desktop connectivity so the same test as
for firewalls should help.

Paul DS.