[mythtv-users] Playback on Vista laptop

[Brad DerManouelian]

On Sep 3, 2008, at 4:34 PM, stuart wrote:

> Bobby Gill wrote:
>> As a linux user who uses the occasional XP, I was just typing a  
>> document
>> on my dad's Vista laptop when a little popup dialog came up asking  
>> me if
>> I wanted to open media sharing with Mythbox MythTV AV Media server. I
>> was a bit perplexed and went through a few motions to open the  
>> sharing
>> access, then the Windows Media Player Library opens up and I saw in  
>> the
>> Video section all recordings from my mythbox server. I tried  
>> playing one
>> and it worked, but the reading is pretty slow, and I'm wondering if  
>> it's
>> already streaming or is it downloading the entire file to cache to  
>> then
>> playback, or what the method is. If it's not already, how can I  
>> have it
>> stream instead?
>>
>> Thanks
>> Bob

It is streaming. Just slowly for whatever reason.

> I saw this thread and had to follow up!  I have a newly purchased HP
> Vista laptop and happened upon the Mythtv UPNP server similarly.
>
> However, in my experiance the Vista/HP Media Center (similar to the  
> one
> mentioned above??) only worked for NTSC recordings.  It did not work  
> for
> ATSC recordings - no matter what the resolution.  That is to say: It
> didn't work for ATSC 1080, it didn't work for ATSC 720 and it didn't
> even work for ATSC standard-definition (i.e. old TV shows (assume  
> 512 or
> 256).

It sounds like you don't have the proper codec installed in Windows  
Media Player to play back those files.

-Brad