James:
So I stayed up all night installing Vista on a 2nd box
I think I might need a little help getting this network distributed transcoding feature to work. I've tried unsuccessfully to distribute the transcoding -- maybe you can tell me what I'm missing?
PC A [Da-Cheat]:
- Windows Vista Business (does not contain Windows Media Center)
- T360 v1.6.1 beta - acting as Server
- avast! not installed
- T360 configuration:
- Install: Tray-tool option, port 1401
- Post-Install compatibility: Run as admin
- T360 General tab -> Transcode buffer folder: c:\TranscodeBuffer
- T360 Network tab -> Share dropdown -> \\DA-CHEAT\TranscodeBuffer
- Upon run: Ready to accept connections on port 1401
- c:\TranscodeBuffer is shared to Everyone, permissions Full Control
PC B [Snakeman]:
- Windows Vista Ultimate (contains Windows Media Center)
- T360 v1.6.1 beta - acting as Client
- avast! v4.7.925 beta, fully enabled except low-level-service-starts at 2-4-4
- T360 configuration:
- Install: Tray-tool option, port 1401
- Post-Install compatibility: Run as admin
- T360 General tab -> Transcode buffer folder: c:\users\Public\videos\TranscodeBuffer
- T360 Network tab -> Forward [checked] -> Da-Cheat
- Transcode 360 Distributed Networking Test
- Successfully established a connection with the remote computer.
- \\Da-Cheat\TranscodeBuffer can be accessed, files can be created/deleted in it
Test:
- PC B -> Windows Media Center -> ... -> Click Transcode
- Dialog box: "TRANSCODE 360 Unable to queue video file for transcoding and streaming. [OK]"
Note: I have tried this test with both firewalls (PC A and PC B) off, but the test failed.
I have also tried with avast! uninstalled on PC B, but the test failed. (was: I'm going to uninstall avast! on PC B and see if that makes any difference.) Is this feature broken?
Kind regards, awaiting your response,
Jacob W. Klein
One way you could try this is if it is a network driver issue, install Transcode 360 on to 2 PCs on 1 of the PCs set it up as a media server (this must be a normal RTM copy of Windows Vista and not Media Center) and configure the distributed file options in the GUI and on the other which is a Media Center version of Vista set it up as the client and point it to your other PC. If you then treat the media center like an extender and do the more information | Transcode button it should request the other PC to transcode the media and then send it down the line to the Media Center which is near enough a full test.