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I’ve been working on a number of things all at the same time. One is getting the xbox 360 wired up - one of the features it has is being able to get video, music, and photos off of a computer or media center device.

One of these devices talked about by Microsoft (follow the xbox.com/pcsetup/ message) is windows XP media center version of DOS. Well I have the home edition and don’t want to buy a new operating system. They also talk about Zune well it works but only to play content that is on your PC. With some searching I discovered the same functionality is in WMP version 11 both are free. I also discovered tversity It looks like an awsome program, It has the computer be a proxy for internet content, it is also free. I resumed my search and found Twonkyvision (not free but has a 30 day trial) Orb and a few others I’ve not tried.

Twonkyvision is very stable but only adds the feature of internet radio, no video. But has a log feature that I used to see why I’m having problems. Upnp AV sends a request out to a reserved IP address.

16:17:34:187 [ERROR]HTTP:Cannot receive header
16:17:34:187 HTTP:received no header in HTTP_send_receive, propably client closed socket!
16:18:24:750 SSDP:### SSDP sending:
NOTIFY * HTTP/1.1

HOST: 239.255.255.250:1900

CACHE-CONTROL: max-age=1810

LOCATION: http://192.168.2.2:9000/DeviceDescription.xml

NT: uuid:7076436f-6e65-1063-8074-00904bc5db3c

NTS: ssdp:alive

SERVER: Windows NT/5.0, UPnP/1.0, TwonkyVision UPnP SDK/1.0

USN: uuid:7076436f-6e65-1063-8074-00904bc5db3c

My router knows nothing about this special address 239.255.255.250 so like any normally working router sends it to the gateway adress or my ISP. So my next step is to install a hub. I’m not yet certain that will work one of the things I tried was to use windows internet sharing to take the router out of the picture, but the internet sharing by default blocks incoming ports above 1000 on the internet side and may have blocked information on the LAN side as well.

Tversity does have a support forum, searching it shows other people with the same problems of routers or firewalls. Zune, WMP 11, and TwonkyVision modify the firewall settings and appear to keep trying if a data connection is lost.

Update — still no luck, I need an iphone.

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