The famous console from Microsoft is very versatile since the introduction of the various updates that make it quite stable and that allow the reading of multimedia content, important for users of a modern console. With this, guide will show you how to share media files from a PC with Windows XP to an XBox 360 Console.
Prepare : Router more 2 Ports, 2 Lan Cables
- Once initiated both PC and console, ensure that both are connected to the network. It important to check that your computer is connected to the router by clicking on “Start” -> Run, and typing in the command line “cmd“. At this point, you start the command prompt from which we will write the command “ping router address.“
- In our case, and in general, except in certain settings made by the user, the address of our modem was 192.168.1.1, alternatively. You can check the IP address on the manual or, again from the command prompt, type “ipconfig” and checking the “Default Gateway“. Found the connection of the computer to the network, we must check that the console will be connected.
- To do so, scroll through the main menu of the dashboard console, until you get to “System Settings“, confirm by pressing the “A” button and then slide the slider until you get to “Network Settings“, confirm with the “A” button, and then select “Wired Network“.
- On the next screen, click on the ” Test Xbox LIVE Connection ” , which also performs the control of the connection to the local network to access the WAN. Once the testing and supposed to have been successful, from your computer if you have windows xp and windows media player, very important for this procedure, open this program.
- Open windows media player, go to the top menu and click on the arrow under the heading ” Media Library “, scroll the cursor to the option ” Media Sharing “. From here, put a check on the ” Share my media computer to: ” and from the list below, will appear XBOX 360, with the logo of the console. Click on the icon representing the console and then click on the ” allow “.
- Subsequently, at any time, you can apply filters to choose which kind of media files you can share with the console selected. By selecting the ” Settings “, you can choose to limit sharing to only audio files, only to video, or media files with a certain classification, to have under control the data. Once you have chosen the desired settings to confirm by clicking the OK button, and the files will be available from the dash even if windows media player is closed, by accessing the console menus, music, pictures and video.