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How to stream media from Windows 7 to Logitech Revue
November 17, 2010 | by Andrew Kameka
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The Logitech Revue set-top box has several apps for Google TV and a browser to consume online video. But there’s one app in particular, the Logitech Media Player, that may be of particular interest to customers who have a large library of music, photos, or videos stored on their PC.
Media Players streams music, video, and photos from your computer to your Logitech Revue box. At the moment, not all formats are supported and there may be playback errors with certain containers not being supported or audio unavailable. In fact, not even all files are discovered during the initial scan.
However, Media Player can be a good way to play some media files in the mean time. Here’s how to stream from PC to Logitech Revue with a Windows 7 PC.
Section 1: Ready the PC
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Open the Computer program and right-click your main drive; it’s typically labeled as the “OS C:” drive
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Right-click and select “Share With > Advanced Sharing” and then open the Advanced Sharing section.
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Click the “Network and Sharing Center” link and make sure the following options are selected:
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Turn on network discovery
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Turn on sharing so anyone with network access can read and write files in the Public Folders
- Use 128-bit encryption to help protect file sharing connections (recommended)
Note: You may also want to make sure that your Wi-Fi network is encrypted (requires a password) just to be on the safe side.
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Click “Choose media streaming options” and set the Show Devices on menu to list All networks. Scroll down and make sure Logitech (or “Unknown Device”) is allowed. Press “Ok”
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Go back to the folder view and set share properties. This time, use the “Share With” button on the navigation pane, as seen here:
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Select Share With > Homegroup (Read) for each folder you plan to share. There may be some subfolders that you don’t want to share. If that’s the case, open those folders and choose Share With > Nobody.
Section 2: Scan for Files
- Navigate to Applications > Logitech Media Player. A list of open computer tied to the network will appear. Your computer must be on in order for this to work.
- A list of Networked Sources will appear showing all the available devices. Select your PC.
- If you get a “Logitech Revue is not authorized to access this server…” message, you may need to do more to authorize sharing. Your PC may automatically notify you that a device is trying to access the network. Click on the prompt and grant access.
Otherwise, you should see a list of media file types to scan. Media Player can be very slow, especially with large libraries, so get use to seeing “Loading screens.” With a little patience and luck, you’ll be streaming media from the PC to your TV.
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not that I've found. ive seen it play AVI and WMV only (of the files in my library. None of my MKV files work).
Thanks for this clear writeup. It was exactly what I needed.
don't try to connect an external hard drive with downloaded digital movies in .wmv format directly to your revue. It won't play them. Logitech will not support .wmv files and denies ever saying that the Logitech will play all web videos.
Best thing to do for unsupported formats is to convert to mp4 (for windows iPhone) or AVI, whichever you prefer. The conversion tool I use is AVS converter. After the conversion Logitech is able to read the file just fine. Also, I prefer the iPhone conversion since I can drop it in my phone via iTunes and take it to go. My recent post Assigning Query results to a SQL Variable
Use remote potato it takes a bit to set up but in the end you can even setup recordings remotely for your windows media center
I have shared a folder, i am unable to see them. It seems to be connected to my computer. Because i am seeing some of the folders. Does anyone know what could be the problem
"Click “Choose media streaming options” and set the Show Devices on menu to list All networks. Scroll down and make sure Logitech (or “Unknown Device”) is allowed. Press “Ok”" Uh, WHAT? There's no such menu.
Followed these instructions step by step and the logitech media player still cannot find my PC. Any ideas?
These are good instructions? I must have a different version of Windows 7, because my menus don’t match the instructions. I never found a way to enable my Revue.
For some reason, if you can’t see the PC on the Logitech Revue device, check in Windows 7 >> Network & Sharing Center >> Turn Network Discovery ON that it stays ON. For some reason mine was not sticking (went back to OFF), so I found this page in Microsoft Website and that did the trick to fix it and now the Logitech Revue can see the PC and play all sorts of PC’s Media: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-networking/network-discovery-will-not-stay-on-or-enabled/a5f86e7d-8256-4dc5-a637-b8100055b743