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Directv media sharing

Okay, this took me a long time to get working and I wanted to set out my steps. The most important part is noted below and it is the step that nearly everyone misses and if you don’t do it, nothing will work.

  1. Ensure that you network layout is correct by plugging in a computer to the cat5 cable you will put into the Directv DVR
  2. Attach network cable to Directv DVR
  3. Reboot Directv DVR (red button next to card)
  4. Enable and test network using Setup->Network->Connect Now and also Setup->Network->Test
  5. Turn on the media server PC and install Windows Media Player 11
  6. Open My Computer and share your My Music folder by clicking “Share this Folder” on the left side
  7. Turn off Windows firewall
  8. IMPORTANT! Open My Network Places and click “Show icons for networked UPnP devices” on the left hand side
  9. Reboot Directv DVR again
  10. Open Windows Media Player 11 and click the menu under Library called Media Sharing
  11. Check the share checkbox and the new devices checkbox
  12. You should also see “Unknown Device” in the list and click on that
  13. Hit okay and you should now see the Music and Videos option on the Directv DVR menu

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5 Responses to “Directv media sharing”

  1. Roger Says:
    January 31st, 2008 at 6:30 pm

    Thanks! Works like a champ. Viiv not required. Too bad DirecTV doesn’t share this information.

  2. Jared Says:
    January 31st, 2008 at 7:33 pm

    They don’t share the information because everything is still beta.

    A fantastic site for DirecTV related information is http://www.dbstalk.com

  3. Garrett Says:
    February 10th, 2008 at 10:24 am

    Great info!! I’m surprised that you have to disable Windows Firewall, as it seems that step 8 would take care of opening the appropriate ports. I’m going to give your method a whirl and it sounds very promising.

  4. nathew Says:
    May 10th, 2008 at 6:54 am

    windows firewall is pretty much useless if you have a firewall function on your router. basically, it just makes it harder for you to do stuff.

  5. vinny Says:
    June 27th, 2008 at 9:50 pm

    i have vista and windows media player shows direc tv dvr and i clicked share all but no i cons in dtv menue rebooted dvr 3 times with red button

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