[mckenziesdaddy]

I used windows media player to stream to showtime. My MP4 and AVI files all work great. But when I add MKV files to windows media library they show a run time of zero seconds. And when I select the file in showtime it shuts down and returns to XMB. How can I fix this?

[Simonbuck]

Have you tried Ps3mediaserver instead of windows mp ?

http://www.ps3mediaserver.org/

[mckenziesdaddy]

Originally Posted by Simonbuck Have you tried Ps3mediaserver instead of windows mp ? http://www.ps3mediaserver.org/

Yes I have that works, But it is still encoding the files before showtime plays them.

[onyxblack]

i use playon for all my media... its not free but it works like a charm - netflix, hulu, local media, cbs, nbc, syfy, food network

they have a free 14 day free trial - then you can pay 5mo / 20year / 80 lifetime licence. note: let the 14 day free trial expire and they will send you a 'last chance' email to get a lifetime license for 40$

I actually no longer have cable TV, i use playon every day and i've spent more on video games then i have this program

so yeah... guess I should explain more - its a program that runs on your PC takes the stream from multiple sourses (like hulu) transcodes it and sends it to ANY DNLA device (cell phone / ps3 / ipad / ipod / smart TV's / xbox) you can have as many devices you want connected to it - I kinda have a super computer for my home PC so I've been able to have 6 devices streaming different shows before it started lagging, (but i believe that was do to network bandwith problems at that point)

edit: note that you could theoretically install a virtualbox on your pc and run playon through the virtbox and refresh it every 14 days to get around the trial period. -though it is really time consuming
http://www.playon.tv/

[Simonbuck]

Originally Posted by mckenziesdaddy Yes I have that works, But it is still encoding the files before showtime plays them.

Windows Media Centre reportedly works to stream MKV without encode, haven't tried as I usually just put them on a stick

EDIT:

went to: Control Panel\Network and Internet\Network and Sharing Center\Media streaming options in Windows 8 and allowed Showtime access. Seems to be streaming Sunday nights episode of Walking Dead (mkv) fine

[SeanP2500]

hey man install unbuntu as a wubi installation so you can dual boot then use mediatomb as a media server works much better for me boss its to the point i am going to have to make a vid to show the quality difference seriously happy as a clam with 1080pmkv via mediatomb to ps3...

[bubba]

Originally Posted by onyxblack i use playon for all my media... its not free but it works like a charm - netflix, hulu, local media, cbs, nbc, syfy, food network they have a free 14 day free trial - then you can pay 5mo / 20year / 80 lifetime licence. note: let the 14 day free trial expire and they will send you a 'last chance' email to get a lifetime license for 40$ I actually no longer have cable TV, i use playon every day and i've spent more on video games then i have this program so yeah... guess I should explain more - its a program that runs on your PC takes the stream from multiple sourses (like hulu) transcodes it and sends it to ANY DNLA device (cell phone / ps3 / ipad / ipod / smart TV's / xbox) you can have as many devices you want connected to it - I kinda have a super computer for my home PC so I've been able to have 6 devices streaming different shows before it started lagging, (but i believe that was do to network bandwith problems at that point) edit: note that you could theoretically install a virtualbox on your pc and run playon through the virtbox and refresh it every 14 days to get around the trial period. -though it is really time consuming http://www.playon.tv/

Or you can download the Crack for it and you will have PlayOn Premium Crack
No need to buy it

[GregoryRasputin]

Originally Posted by bubba Or you can download the Crack for it and you will have PlayOn Premium Crack No need to buy it

Why crack it when you can get it for a year for free.......

[carldenning]

could use xbmc to stream to showtime

[onyxblack]

Originally Posted by bubba Or you can download the Crack for it and you will have PlayOn Premium Crack No need to buy it

last time i checked the crack was only for a spacific version of playon - which is outdated and hulu/cbs no longer works.

Because `content providers` are constantly changing their website playon is constantly having updates id estimate at saying almost every other month - note that they also add new content - as espn/amazon Vod wern't in the original releases

It is possible your talking about a different crack then me however - curious to know what crack your talking about?
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Originally Posted by carldenning could use xbmc to stream to showtime

xbmc was nice while it lasted - however the fact that they don't even dev for the xbox is a bit.... funny

I've never had a good experience with xbmc outside of the xbox