Is it just me, or does there seem to be a format war going on within
Microsoft? I could understand if 5-10 different manufacturers were using 2 or
3 different formats to stream media from my PC to my A/V devices throughout
my house. But, to have MS using 2-3 different formats ...

I Would Hope that Microsoft would eventually add a UPnP/AV Renderer into
Media player. Even if it only accesses a ContentDirectory I'd be happy.
So far the only Software renderer I've found was the reference design on the
Intel Site. But it's user interface is rather lacking  and ...

Will media connect stream content protected in DRM 9?

I've noticed that when playing an entire album, for example, that certain
songs are skipped. an example is when i play The Best of U2, 1980-1990, "Bad"
is always skipped. The player starts to play the song, then the "stop" icon
appears, and suddenly it is playing the next song in ...

Can one computer at my house which has all my music on it be a "Windows Media
Connect" server and another computer on my network running "Windows Media
Player 10" be a device.  This would be a great feature if not.
And if not, how does one keep two computer music syncronized?  If ...

Can I use WM Connect to stream music stored on my main computer to my laptop?
Both my computer and laptop are running Windows XP SP2 and I have downloaded
Connect onto both of them.
Thanks in advance

When attempting to sync mp3 files with my HP iPAQ Pocket
PC 2003 Windows Media Player 10 freezes up while
converting them.  I have Windows XP Service Pack 2,
Activesync 3.71, and the new version of Windows media

Hi there, i have a couple of questions about the D-Link DSM-320 Media
Player as follows:
1) Can it be manually configured with an IP or does it require an
automatic DHCP Server only?

Hello to all,
I recently bought a compact stereo system (Philips MC-W770) that have a
"PC-link" feature wich allows to wirelessly play on the stereo music files
from the computer.

I have about 100GB of music on my hard drive andy use MS WMP to play tracks
and transfer to my jutebox device.  
Problem:  I transferred my music from my C drive to D drive, then erased
tracks from C drive.  Unfortunately the WMP library lists duplicate tracks

I think that the problem is not with the devices.
My problem is:
may computer have a sound card in the motherboard
after the instalation of the sp2 I don´t have the mixer device, and any

I was curious as to how soon I might be able to play WMV's with my
Media-Lounge.  Is that something to expect from Media Connect or will I have
to wait until D-Link server addresses that?

Just installed WMC for use with my DLink DSM320 and noticed it uses a lot
more bandwidth for video than other media servers (philips, intel, DLinks
own, twonkyvision). Did some packet sniffing and noticed a lot of bad CRC's
in the packets coming from the WMC machine. Is there a ...

Is there any preference in setting up a wired or wireless network for a media
center (PC-> Digital Media Receiver-> TV)?
Is the bandwidth/thoroughput of 802.11g fast enough to stream avi video
(theorectically 54Mbps, but more like 20Mbps from what I've gathered)?  Or,