"Play To" and Win 7 64 bit

[jimdcsi]

Hello,

I've made sure that the WD Live has the latest firmware. I reset the WD Live (Hard and with the paperclip) I've configured media streaming and installed the drivers in Windows for the WD Live media device.  The WD Live is recognized in Windows Media Player 12 as an available media device. However, when I select a file to play the player hangs for a while as it attempts to contact the network device. Then after a few minutes it fails and reports that the device is not responding. It does the same thing whether I have the firewall on or off.

Any ideas as to what I am doing wrong here? I would like to take advantage of the Play To option to push content to my television.

Thank you.

Jim

[Tikkanen]

I am having the exact same problem with my WD Live TV and my Pioneer Elite VSX-94 TXH Receiver.  I click on play-to and it finds the device, but when it's supposed to start playing either the video or mp3 it just sits at "Connecting to media server..."  i am also running Windows 7 64bit, and i have a Linksys WRT310N router.  I have tried with and without a homegroup or the firewall turned on.  Neither made a difference.  Any help would be greatly appreciated

[montheponies]

Hi,

I've got the same problem. Using Play To function the WD TV Live is recognised but Windows Media Player 12 sits at "Contacting media server...". Also when I try to access media shares from the WD TV Live it comes back with "No Media Found" - despite access being allowed on Windows 7. Network shares work fine so I'm guessing it's a general streaming problem. Not sure if it's relevant but streaming from my Buffalo Linkstation Live also doesn't work, although as with the WD TV Live, network shares work fine.

Tried turning off all firewalls on Windows

Tried turning UPnP on and off on router

Tried flashing the router with the latest firmware.

I'm using a Netgear DG834GT router, with firmware v1.03.23, WD TV Live with latest firmware 1.02.21 and Windows 7 64bit.

Any help would be appreciated, even if it's just to say that you have got the Play To function working with a setup description.

[montheponies]

I've got it working, solution was to turn off AVG Free's Active Surf Shield (it's under Link Scanner), as per the attached thread;

http://community.wdc.com/t5/Firmware/W7-Play-to-How-do-you-guys-do-this/td-p/17397

[merrywobs]

I've got the same problem, but I'm using McAfee's firewall.  Same symptoms as above. It works if I switch off the firewall, I had a look in McAfee's logs, hoping to find that WDTVLIVE was doing something that McAfee was blocking, but there is nothing there. So having difficulty tracking down what is the cause.

Exactly the same firewall works properly on a Netbook running Win 7 32 bit! Same firewall, configured the same way - no problem.

Any ideas?