Issue with Windows Media Player

[nucleardirk]

Hi there!

My config:
1 Laptop, Windows 7 64 bit
1 Netbook, Windows 7 32 bit
Router: AVM Fritz Box (has also a built in Mediaserver)
DNLA Receiver: PS3, Yamaha RXV671 Receiver, iPad with ACEPlayer

On both Windows machines, PMS is installed - the PS3, iPad and the Yamaha Receiver play my shared music without problems from laptop or netbooks shared libary.
Now I wanted to access with the Notebook the shared folder of the laptop using windows media player.
WMP shows the server, and connects, but is showing none of the files! Therefore - no streaming possible!
WMP says: "No files found in your remote libary". Same when accessing with laptops WMP to laptops own PMS.

PMS shows WMP as "Renderer"...

i tried to disable both firewalls - no success!
When trying to access the routers media player - everything is working with WMP like a charm. but not with PMS & WMO.

Any ideas? Router shouldn`t be the problem as PS3 etc. works fine with it.

[hillstrom]

hi there,

i am having similar troubles. i took a look through the forum, and this sounded like the closest to my own problem, so here goes.

i have pms, built from source files, running successfully on a centos 6.4 home linux server i just tossed together. my PS3 is
recognizing it just fine, playing music off it with ease.

but not a single one of my 3 win7 boxes can see any music to play in WMP; they seeee the pms server, but they see absolutely no content in it at all. perhaps a little more info: i have a working samba setup on the server, which the win boxes are happily working with, so the first thing i tried was to move all the media server media onto that big open samba share. this lets me play songs/albums(.mpu) fine from a windows explorer window, but WMP simply cant see any content in the pms media server still when i try it that way.

any ideas? could it be a owner/group/permissions thing? could i just be cursed? help a fellow tech weenie out, couldya?

[C4rtm4N]

Bumping this as I'm having exactly the same issue as well.

Two different PS3s work fine but Windows Media Player doesn't see anything to play. Nothing even gets written to the debug log so it's as if the remote PC hasn't even tried to look at the folders. Using 1.81.0 currently but this has been the case for maybe a couple of years.

Has nobody got any ideas?

[mazey]

It has never worked and the image was made as a dummy renderer image so it wouldnt keep seeing a unrecognised device. i suggest if u want to use wmp to just access it over a shared network folder.

[C4rtm4N]

Understood Mazey. The main reason for me asking is that I have exactly the same problem with my Samsung Note 10.1 & I was hoping that if I fix the Windows Media Player thing then I can fix it too. Tried posting logs in another thread re the Note - we got so far to fixing it then everything dried up as there was nothing being reported in the logs. Others seem to be able to get their Note's to work so I can't understand why mine won't.