I had whole heaps of issues getting my Xbox 360 to work with TVersity, and had 2 things outstanding that fixed mine. I’d already turned off my firewall, but I don’t think that was an issue as I’d allowed TVersity to act as a server anyway, but, after seeing suggestions on here, I turned off uPNP on my router, and that was part of the solution.

The other thing might just have been me… I’d tried using the Media Centre PC software first and made sure that worked. Like most people I don’t have all my content in MS obligatory formats so plumped for TVersity. However, I was trying to access TVersity the same way I did Media Centre on my PC – using the Media Centre detection on the Xbox 360. That failed repeatedly even with all the changes I’d made to the Xbox, the router and the PC. I then stupidly, or so I thought, looked at my media libraries and, hey presto, there was TVersity listed and all my content! I’ve since tried the Media Centre detection again, and it still fails, so I guess TVersity is supposed to work this way.

Even though my Windows firewall had the exeption of TVersity I turned it off and it started working. I then added the correct port in to the list of exeptions and turned it back on. WORKING FINE. I figure the firewall exeption was wrongly allocated to a differnt port. Maby this will work on other firewalls.
Also i had selected X-box 360 (as appost to auto detect) on the TVersity GUI settings.

I also found that you can have both the WMP server running at the same time as the TVersity and they will both be found, and come up as 2 differnt computers on the 360.

Hope this helps anyone

You’re xbox 360 must have the fall update installed or you’ll never be able to get the video’s from a computer. You’ll only see the option once the update is installed.
It’s all working now, streaming and transcoding my avi files to the 360 as we speak.

Hope you give it another go, it’s a pretty good little product especially if you’ve only got an XP machine to serve video from. If it could fast forward and rewind it’d be the end of my old xbox and xbmc.

In theory TVersity is a great idea, in reality… well, its still just beta so hopefully it will be a bit smoother when it hits the big “1″.

I have since installed Vista 64-bit and have had successes streaming .wmp content to my 360 with Windows Media Center. So far no luck with .mpg content to the 360 that is supposed to be supported. I expect to blog about this at some point in the future.

…Dale

1. Could any of your routers be discarding UPNP packets preventing discovery of the service? I reckon you said WMC/WMP11 work, but I do not know if these use UPNP for server discovery or some kind of weird Microsoft protocol.

2. Since you had previously streamed videos to the 360 using VLC, I assume your 360 already had your PC in its “list of known PCs”. Thing is, once the 360 discovers a PC with media content, it remembers the method used (i.e., the application which was streaming the media such as Windows Media Connect, TVersity, etc.) and always look for such method (program). If you do not delete the computer from the “list of known computers” before searching for the new TVersity server, it won’t find it.

Firewall:

I have XP SP2’s firewall turned off because I rely on my router as a firewall. I port forwarded the port on my router as the instructions said, so I’m confident there was no firewall issue.

Multiple Interfaces:

I only have one NIC in the computer I installed, I don’t use loop back’s on this particular PC, so I don’t know which multiple interfaces of which you speak.

One unique aspect of my setup is that I have two wireless routers. My 360 connects to a Wireless A+G router (I use A) which is then hardwired to another Wireless G router which my primary PC is connected too. I do this because I have more devices/computers that require Ethernet connections than the four ports that are free on the back of any router – I effectively use one router as a hub (the G router). That said, Windows Connect and WMP11 work through this and connect to my 360 with no problem and Xbox Live also navigates through this with no issue. So I don’t see how that could be a problem.

I did not start a support forum question, I knew the option was there. I just know that having been down this path with other programs in the past that don’t have the time it would have taken to figure this out. I spent several weeks getting Simplicity to work and put the poor good souls on that forum through an awful lot of hoops before we collectively figured it out. This was going down the same road.

If the TiVo Series 3 does not get me where I want to go with the next software release, I may set a weekend day aside to give it a go again.

Thanks for answering the question re ff/rwd. That’s interesting – certainly better than the results I’m getting with VLC converted files!

…Dale

Here is a link to the troubleshooting section on our website that covers all that:
http://s3.amazonaws.com/www.tversity.com/faq.html#autodetect-faq

Finally, regarding your question about FF/Rew, you will be able to do it once the conversion is done. Playback during the conversion is possible but without FF/Rew.

I hope this helps, btw did you start a thread in our support forums? We would have been very happy to help in that case, and still are as you can see.