Streaming media to my PS3! ARGH!

timberflake

Right, I need some help guys. Last night I set my desktop, laptop and PS3 up to access the internet wirelessly. Today I've decided to share files over my network. Let me start by saying that all my music, video, docs ect are on my XP desktop. I've managed to share this with my Vista laptop no problem, but now I'm trying to get my PS3 to stream meadia from my desktop. I've managed to connect my Vista laptop no problem at all but the desktop is a different story.

If you follow this link http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/knowledgecenter/howto/mp11/sharemedia.aspx
it shows diagrams so I can point out where I'm having the problem. I open WMP 11, go to Library, click on media sharing (pic 1) and then tick the box that says share my media (pic 2). However, when I click ok, instead of getting the box in pic 3 where I can select the devices I wish to allow, my machine hangs for a few seconds and remains on the box in pic 2, if I click ok again it does it again!

I've tried reinstalling WMP11 and disabling my firewall and it makes no difference! Can anyone offer any support!?

gaming_guy

ive never used WMP for media sharing to my ps3, but i do use tversity ( http://tversity.com/home ) and it worked fine on my xp machine (before it blew up ) and even on my tempory replacement server 2003 computer

geewhiz

Can you go to Start / Run and type in services.msc then browse to "'Windows Media Player Sharing Service" and check if it's started, if it's not started then you need to start that then go back into Media Player and try sharing again.

timberflake

geewhiz wrote: »

Can you go to Start / Run and type in services.msc then browse to "'Windows Media Player Sharing Service" and check if it's started, if it's not started then you need to start that then go back into Media Player and try sharing again.

I've just done that and got an error message saying "Could not start the Windows Media Player Newtwork Sharing Service service on local computer. Error 1068: The dependancy service or group failed to start".

Any ideas??

geewhiz

timberflake wrote: »

I've just done that and got an error message saying "Could not start the Windows Media Player Newtwork Sharing Service service on local computer. Error 1068: The dependancy service or group failed to start".

Any ideas??

You will need to start all the dependant sevices first, these are:

Application Layer Gateway Service
Network Connections
Network Location Awareness (NLA)
Plug and Play
Remote Access Auto Connection Manager
Remote Access Connection Manager
Remote Procedure Call (RPC)
Telephony

Once you've done that, try again.

redmel1621

I don't know the ins and outs I'm afraid, but we use tversity, never had any probs so far.

Mel x

timberflake

geewhiz wrote: »

You will need to start all the dependant sevices first, these are:

Application Layer Gateway Service
Network Connections
Network Location Awareness (NLA)
Plug and Play
Remote Access Auto Connection Manager
Remote Access Connection Manager
Remote Procedure Call (RPC)
Telephony

Once you've done that, try again.

I've just checked and all but Telephony were already started. I started telephony and tried again but got the same message, I don't get what the problem is!

geewhiz

timberflake wrote: »

I've just checked and all but Telephony were already started. I started telephony and tried again but got the same message, I don't get what the problem is!

Sorry, I missed 'SSDP Discovery Service' & 'HTTP SSL' from my first list.

timberflake

geewhiz wrote: »

Sorry, I missed 'SSDP Discovery Service' & 'HTTP SSL' from my first list.

Ok, this get weirder by the minute, "HTTP SSL" was already enabled and "SSDP Discovery Service" is disabled and when I right click on it the option to start it is greyed out. Whats going on!?

gaming_guy

timberflake wrote: »

Ok, this get weirder by the minute, "HTTP SSL" was already enabled and "SSDP Discovery Service" is disabled and when I right click on it the option to start it is greyed out. Whats going on!?

right click on it > select properties and change the startup type to one of the other options (manual i think) then start shouldnt be greyed out

timberflake

gaming_guy wrote: »

right click on it > select properties and change the startup type to one of the other options (manual i think) then start shouldnt be greyed out

Ok, I've now made sure they're all enabled and tried to start Windows Media Player Network Sharing Service but get the same error message!