Comments on: Directv media sharing

By: bzbit

bzbit — Sat, 09 Jul 2011 00:08:18 +0000

I had a lot of problems getting MediaShare working then I thought...'hey I can write something better than that!' So I did. Download it at I think you'll you'll find that it works better than other media servers for Directv.

By: Brian Pontarelli

Brian Pontarelli — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 16:15:46 +0000

Not really sure. It should play a couple of different audio files. At least MP3. I’ve pretty much abandoned the whole thing because it is so cheap to get a better system for all of it. Boxee box is looking pretty cool and Google TV/Apple TV are pretty nice as well.

By: Matt

Matt — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 00:32:05 +0000

I can play the mpeg2 videos but i have no audio. Any ideas?

By: Joshua

Joshua — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 02:41:13 +0000

works with HD/DVR’s, R-22 DVR’s, and HD recievers H-21, 23, and 24. (from a dtv tech)

By: Sam

Sam — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 18:19:30 +0000

So this wont work with an HD receiver? Just the DVR box?

By: scott

scott — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 02:21:23 +0000

You da man…took a little while, but I’m up and drawing music and pix from 2 different pc’s. Thanks

By: Brian Pontarelli

Brian Pontarelli — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 17:31:07 +0000

The Directv DVR only plays certain file formats:

AVI – Raw videos or MPEG-2 with raw or MPEG-3 audio I think
MP3 – Audio

I think those are really the only formats that it will play currently. Others might know more.

By: GH

GH — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 19:33:03 +0000

After hooking up my directv to my network, my media player shows my directv player as a device and under videos, shows all my recorded shows. Unfortunately I am not able to play them. Error Msg: (Windows Media Player cannot play the file. The Player might not support the file type or might not support the codec that was used to compress the file.)

Has anyone figured out how to access the files and play them on my PC?

Thanks

Windows 7
Media Player 11
Directv HR20

By: Bailey

Bailey — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 20:53:13 +0000

Networking my pictures from my pc to my dvr and television.
Both the PC and the DVR reconize each other. Pictures are shown on my PC monitor and just a few are
received by my dvr and shown on the TV screen….Then no more pictures are on the TV and the message
“ubable to access media”.
Sometimes no pictures are shown but just yellow triangles with ? in the center where pictures might be andthe same message”unable to access media”
Thanks for any help.
Bailey
Just a couple of months ago everything worked really fine?

By: Brent C

Brent C — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 20:06:57 +0000

Thanks! This worked just as you said. I can now see pictures and listen to all my MP3′s using my DVR. Very nice functionality.
I have Windows XP Home edition.