I run Media Center on two PC’s - one Win7 and the other Vista and would like to share OTA recordings on the Win7 with the Vista. Everything is correctly shared and mapped, i.e. recordings on the Win7 PC can be viewed and accessed on the Vista PC in My Computer. But when in Vista Media Center going to Settings – Recorder – More TV Locations – Add Folder to Watch, the mapped hdd with the recordings on the Win7 doesn’t even show up. Any suggestion on how show mapped hdd?
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Sharing Recordings on another PC
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spammie1
, Jun 05 2012 10:04 AM
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Posted 05 June 2012 - 05:05 PM
Can you confirm some details of the mapping.
Is it a mapped drive letter to the Vista machine?
Are the machines set to be in the same workgroup?
Can you access the mapped drive on W7 from Vista? Can you add, read and delete files on that mapped drive (test with notepad, no need to test with wtv files)
What security have you set for the shared directory on W7 and for the share itself?
The answer is usually somewhere in the detail above.
Is it a mapped drive letter to the Vista machine?
Are the machines set to be in the same workgroup?
Can you access the mapped drive on W7 from Vista? Can you add, read and delete files on that mapped drive (test with notepad, no need to test with wtv files)
What security have you set for the shared directory on W7 and for the share itself?
The answer is usually somewhere in the detail above.
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Posted 06 June 2012 - 07:24 AM
It appears you can't watch wtv files recorded on Win 7 on a Vista PC. I converted a wtv file to dvr-ms on the Win7 PC and it then showed up on the Vista PC. Although, you can watch wtv files recorded on Vista on a Windows 7 PC.
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Posted 07 June 2012 - 12:24 AM
WTV is supported from Media centre TV Pack 2008. Having said that, I've never actually tried playing a Win 7 recorded wtv on Vista.
The file format is the same so there is theoretically no reason it shouldn't work. Are you seeing the Win 7 wtv file on a share or moving it to the Vista RecordedTV location and restarting Vista to have Media Centre detect the file? One thing to remember is that Media Centre does not automatically register new Recorded TV on network locations.
The file format is the same so there is theoretically no reason it shouldn't work. Are you seeing the Win 7 wtv file on a share or moving it to the Vista RecordedTV location and restarting Vista to have Media Centre detect the file? One thing to remember is that Media Centre does not automatically register new Recorded TV on network locations.
