Yet Another Windows Media Player Conundrum . . .

Aloha !

My Moms has a PC with all here photo's on it. When ever she came back from a holiday, she would put the photo's on the PC, sort them out and then watch them with friends on het Sony TV in the livingroom...

You guessed it. This mysteriously stopped working... but not entirely ?

The setup:

• Win 10 PC - With photos (Windows 10 Pro 19041.450)
• Win 10 Laptop
• Sony TV
• My own Win 10 laptop in het network.

The files :

Code:

C:\Mijn Documenten\Documenten\Pictures
       			        Other folder
			        Other folder
			        Dropbox Folder
			        Scanned Items
                                Vacation
			        Other folder
			        Other folder

The weird things :

1. All the laptops and the TV can 'see' the computer
2. All the laptops and the TV can see the 'Dropbox' folder and view the pictures
3. None of the other folders like 'Vacation', 'Scanned items' or 'Other folder' are visible

It gets even weirder :
It works now and then. Somtimes we can view pictures in ALL folders and sometimes just the above.
The last time we could see ALL the folders, but no content.


I have searched for weeks at and end and frankly I have NO IDEA what is wrong...
...Uhmm ? Help ? Please ? Anyone ?


Cheeeeeeeeeeeeers,


Jecepede & Mom

Aloha !

The built in Windows Media Player 12 is used for sharing the photos.
On the TV we select the little icon that looks like a network connection icon.
Maybe my memory play stricks on me but I can remember this used to look like the Media player icon ?



Tried browsing today again, we see all folders, but still no content...



Cheeeeeeeeeeeeeers,

Jecepede

jecepede said:

The built in Windows Media Player 12 is used for sharing the photos.
On the TV we select the little icon that looks like a network connection icon.

TBH I gave up using the Media Player for media streaming a long time ago. I turned off media streaming shortly after upgrading from Win7 to Win10.

These days I don't browse for photos or video from my TV, instead on the PC I select the media (a folder of photos or an .mp4) right-click on it and select 'Cast to device' to send it to the TV.

Aloha !

Bree said:

TBH I gave up using the Media Player for media streaming a long time ago.....
.....right-click on it and select 'Cast to device' to send it to the TV.

Uhmm yeah. That would be fine for me, but my Mom is 75+ years of age. The TV is in the livingroom
on ground floor and the PC on the first floor. I do not want her to climb the steep stairs unnecessary.

Plus like I said earlier, it has allways worked under Windows 10... it just stopped working out of the blue.
I am 100% positive it is some setting that I have overlooked. Dunno which one though



Cheeeeeeeeeeeeers,

Jecepede

Aloha !

Almost two weeks have gone by and
uhmm.... no-one has any clue ?????????

How about a work around that does not involve walking stairs ???



Cheers,

Jecepede