Video Library (WMP12) not available on mobile device.

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Video Library (WMP12) not available on mobile device.

Started 2 months ago by Robot.Legion (4 posts) (2 voices)
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Posted 2 months ago

Robot.Legion
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I set everything up and have been impressed with how smoothly everything works (except of course browsing large mp3 libraries) however, the particular reason I got started was to stream movies from my Windows PC to my tablet.

Since I also stream to an Xbox360, I decided it would be simplest to continue using Windows Media Player as my host, as it already has my libraries set up, and had streaming activated.

When I select a media source on my tablet (Toshiba AT100) I am able to select between my WMP server, of the Skifta media server. If I select Skifta, things function as normal, however the Skifta media server only allows for adding one source folder, and I have my content spread out too far for that to be practical for me. If I select the WMP server the only video that is available to me is "Landscapes" the sample video that comes along with Windows 7. All my other content has been added to the Library in WMP, and when streaming to my Xbox is visible. =/ Any thoughts?

As an aside, before clicking "post" I went ahead and confirmed I have the same problem on my Samsung Galaxy S II.
Posted 2 months ago

Conal
Skifta Engineer

1)So - to confirm, your issue is that libraries from your installation of Windows Media player show up on your xbox. The same libraries do not show up to Skifta for both of your devices. Is that correct?

2) Whats your version of windows media player?

3) Have you compared how the 'working' library is setup compare to how the 'failing' libraries are setup?

4) Have you tried copying some of the failing content into the same library as the successful content? Does it show up?

The issue is one of 'how' your libraries are being shared from your media server. Let me know if I have question 1 correct and your answer to the other points.
Posted 2 months ago

Robot.Legion
Member

1) You got it

2) Windows Media Player 12

3) I have, and there are no obvious differences I can detect

4) I tried, but was unsuccessful, however this seems to be a problem with how WMP handles the "Recorded TV" library, not an issue with streaming.

update: I think I got it. I opened up the "More Streaming Options" menu in WMP, and changed "Show devices from" to "All Networks" instead of "Local Netowkrs". (For some reason my tablet and phone are listed there, despite being on the same network as the desktop...) and changed the access from "Allowed using default settings" to "Allowed using custom settings".

Despite the fact that the default setting is to allow access to all content, changing to custom and selecting "Make all media in my Library available to this device" has done the trick.

So as it turns out (unsurprisingly) it was an issue with Media Player... Any ideas as to why I had to enable that setting?
Posted 2 months ago

Conal
Skifta Engineer

I'd love to come back with a snappy answer like "because they're microsoft products" - It's genuinely just the way they have coded their configuration handling. Glad to hear that you're up and running - and good to hear we got the answer correct!

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