dpaulat Posted December 6, 2009 Share Posted December 6, 2009 I have read some posts about this on this forum, and I have heard of people getting this to work, but I can't seem to find any decent information. In a nutshell, this is what I want to do. I have been using Media Center on Windows Vista and Windows 7, but I want to migrate all my media libraries over to my new Windows 2008 server that I have up and running. I could care less about viewing and listening to all this media on my server... the real point of it is I am trying to share this all with the XBox 360 in the other room.At the moment, copying over any MCE executables would probably not be an option, as I am currently running Windows 7 x64 (unles, while my server is still has a 32 bit processor.Does anyone have a good tutorial or advice on getting this working? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dpaulat Posted December 6, 2009 Author Share Posted December 6, 2009 (edited) Looks like plenty of views with no response so far... so let me refine a few alternatives (I am not limited to these to get my functionality to work) that would suffice:I got Windows Media Connect 2.0 working, and it streams my audio just fine. However, I cannot stream supported *.mpg files with it, that would normally be supported by the Windows Media Center. If there is a way to enable this, fantastic.Windows Media Player has a sharing feature, which should ideally be all I need, as this can share my *.mpg files. However, in Windows Server 2008, this is grayed out. There must be a way to enable this. Edited December 6, 2009 by dpaulat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cluberti Posted December 6, 2009 Share Posted December 6, 2009 See if anything in this thread helps you - I know at one time there was quite a bit of buzz over getting it to work, although I've not been tracking it for awhile. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dpaulat Posted December 6, 2009 Author Share Posted December 6, 2009 I did find that as well. My server is running Windows server 2008 32-bit. My Windows 7 machine is currently running a 64-bit OS, and the other computer I have runs Windows XP Professional (AFAIK no MCE available). I don't have a standard Vista 32-bit (what came installed on my 64-bit machine) install disc, but I do have the restore CDs and partition, I guess my next step is to try to extract MCE out of there if possible, unless anyone has a better idea for that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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