Today I saw this blog post about streaming recorded tv remotely over the internet from one pc to a netbook. Basically in the latest builds of Windows 7 (I have confirmed this to work on builds 7077 and 7100) you can setup windows media player, when linked to a live ID, to stream any of your media content, whether it be music, photos, and even recorded tv. Yes that is right, even recorded tv.
If you watch the video posted up on the blog, you will she Barb, streaming a recorded tv show, that is located on one internet connection, behind a router/firewall, while her Asus EEEPC is located on another internet connection, behind another router/firewall. After seeing this post I decided to give this a try and see how easy it was to setup, and to my surprise it was actually very easy to get up and running.
First I loaded up my windows media player, and click on stream:
click on “Allow Internet Access to home media”
once you click on “Allow Internet Access to home media” a new pop up window will ask you to link online ID:
Click on Link an Online ID it will then ask you to install live ID software located here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=5e193cfe-f45a-4e29-b6b7-984e7802c639
once you install the software you will be asked to input your windows live credentials:
you are now linked to windows live
once you are linked to a live ID, it will then bring you back to windows media player and you will now notice a new menu in the left hand column, in my case it shows my name as well as the name of my PC “Blackmagic”
click on Music, Videos, Pictures, or Recorded TV
it will come up with a menu saying “contacting the remote media library”
and now shows videos I have stored on my HTPC. I can now stream any content I want from my HTPC to my netbook or any other PC that I have windows 7 installed (running build 7077 or 7100). It does however down sample the video so if your recorded tv shows are in HD, they won’t come across in hd, however on a netbook the video still looks fantastic and the streaming is actually pretty fast as well.
So if you are running windows 7 and want to stream your media remotely I highly recommend this. It works without having to forward ports on your firewall or any changes like that, it just works.
Hoping to give this a try soon. Installing the RC for the main MCE tomorrow morning then doing the same on my 2nd partition on my laptop later in the day.
Hoping to give this a try soon. Installing the RC for the main MCE tomorrow morning then doing the same on my 2nd partition on my laptop later in the day.