streaming media from Vista to ATV

[shadek]

Hi all --

I am a complete noob to the whole boxee hacking my ATV world. I completed the ATV hack last night following http://blog.edwards-research.com/2009/02/hacking-apple-tv-23-from-windows-vista/, a little out of date but a perfect guide for noobs :)

OK so now comes my questions:

1- Do I need Boxxee installed on my desktop also for it work with my ATV?

2- Can boxee or XBMC stream my AVI's from my desktop(vista) to the ATV?

Thanks

Shadek

[marcel]

1. No you do not need to have Boxee installed on your PC inorder to stream ..but we do work with windows ...

2. Check out this thread to stream media http://support.boxee.tv/forums/49598/entries/42503

[shadek]

Thanks for the Link !!!!

Ok so here is my problem ---

I am able to see my workgroup "BUDDY" It then asked my for a account/PW which i have not set up on the ATV or the PC. So i just click confirm, it that scans and comes with "No files found at source"

I have a single folder on my desktop shared out to everyone with full rights. And no firewall turned on besides my wireless router.

any ideas or suggestions would be great.

[marcel]

The workgroup default is "WORKGROUP" on the ATV (Settings >Network>smbclient)..can you view the file via Browse option?

[shadek]

Ok I went on the arv and under both settings - network - smb client which does not have a browse option, menu - browse - network - wrkgrp- buddy and got an error "loading error failed to retrieve data"

thanks for trying to help!!

[shadek]

Do I need to create a user just for the arv on my desktop?

I tried xbmc same type of issue

[shadek]

ok now when i browse I can see the "basic Windows" user Dir with music,movie,picture. but when i go to the movie dir on the atv in boxee the folder is empy (only have an up arrow) I checked the folder on my pc and I have 1 avi file in the movie folder.

any ideas?

Oh i am also able to see the dir when going to setting media source -- WRGRP>BUDDY>"same dir as above....

I was also able to set up a upnp connection in XBMC and was able to stream the video file. But who wants to have to us window media player ... UGH :(

[buckeye1]

I'm somewhat of a noob to the ATV-Vista thing, but in reading your thread, I had the same problem with ATV wanting a username and password to access my computer running vista premium, or any of the external drives I had connected to my vista computer.

After vista had downloaded all the updates, I went to the sharing control panel- there are a bunch of options, and I set everything to share all media across my personal network, and also turned OFF password protected sharing - this is apparently the default setting for vista. After I restarted, all the folders I was sharing showed up for ATV.

hope this helps- let me know how it goes. I didn't mess with using windows media player, or using xbmc.