I have two machines:
CURRENT
TEST
I currently stream music and videos from CURRENT in my office to a ShowCenter 200 in the living room. Music playlist functionality in WMC is spartan at best (I was spoiled by Pinnacle's software), and I would like to utilize WMP11 and its built-in UPNP server to get the playlist flexibility added to the folder-based navigation available in WMC. To that end, I'm testing WMP11 on TEST. I have tried other UPNP server software in the past (TVersity, Twonky, Winamp, etc.), but have decided on WMP for now.
Everything went pretty well right up to the point where I tried to stream a video file from TEST. The video quality and processor/memory utilization suggest WMP11 is transcoding the video before it goes out, which is wholly unnecessary since the ShowCenter device plays the files without issue from CURRENT via WMC (Xvid in AVI container). Video quality is significantly degraded and the picture no longer fits the screen.
I just know this is going to be a simple setting, but I have looked in WMP11 and the sharing settings within Windows itself for about three solid hours over the last few days to find something that disables this. I have disabled file conversion for synced devices, but nothing changed. Everything else is working the way I expected, but if this can't be disabled, I'm going to have to start looking for different server software.
Any help toward disabling the transcoding would be very much appreciated.
CURRENT
- Dell SC420
- P4 2.0Ghz
- 1GB RAM
- Windows XP SP3
- Windows Media Connect
TEST
- Custom built
- Athlon64 3200+
- 1GB RAM (soon 2GB)
- Windows 7 RC
- WMP11
I currently stream music and videos from CURRENT in my office to a ShowCenter 200 in the living room. Music playlist functionality in WMC is spartan at best (I was spoiled by Pinnacle's software), and I would like to utilize WMP11 and its built-in UPNP server to get the playlist flexibility added to the folder-based navigation available in WMC. To that end, I'm testing WMP11 on TEST. I have tried other UPNP server software in the past (TVersity, Twonky, Winamp, etc.), but have decided on WMP for now.
Everything went pretty well right up to the point where I tried to stream a video file from TEST. The video quality and processor/memory utilization suggest WMP11 is transcoding the video before it goes out, which is wholly unnecessary since the ShowCenter device plays the files without issue from CURRENT via WMC (Xvid in AVI container). Video quality is significantly degraded and the picture no longer fits the screen.
I just know this is going to be a simple setting, but I have looked in WMP11 and the sharing settings within Windows itself for about three solid hours over the last few days to find something that disables this. I have disabled file conversion for synced devices, but nothing changed. Everything else is working the way I expected, but if this can't be disabled, I'm going to have to start looking for different server software.
Any help toward disabling the transcoding would be very much appreciated.