Hi All,
I now own a Home server and a Media Extender. I thought it is easy to stream content from WHS to my TV using the Media Center and the extender. But Media center can not read the media files from the WHS. I see so many discussions on that but no clear answer. Hope you guys can help out on this. Is this possible?
Is it true that Media center can not record to a network location like in Home server?
Also, I am able to add the network location as the library but the media center extender is not displaying any content from the network location.
Appreciate u r comments. Hope microsoft team members answer this. Also, please make it simple to integrate the two. You can't expect end users to know all these complex stuff. After installation, either let windows recognize the home server as another local storage or change the Media center behavior to read the content from any where.
Thanks,
Sanjay
The integrate just fine. I tell Media Center to watch some shares on the network and the files show up in media center. Of course networking requires you have a user account setup on WHS for your HTPC but it only takes a second to do that.
And your Media Center computer will need to have the necessary codecs installed to play whatever files you have.
Are you using an actual extender or another PC running Media Center? Extenders are limited in the files they will play and if you have those files they won't show up on the extender.
I have my HTPC setup to play any video file out there. All stored on my WHS. My HTPC is downstairs connected to a projector.
