Playstation 3 – Error ‘A DLNA protocol error (2104) has occurred’ When streaming from Windows Media Player
Nov17

Playstation 3 – Error ‘A DLNA protocol error (2104) has occurred’ When streaming from Windows Media Player

KB ID 0000696 Problem My Windows 7 Media Center can’t stream to my PS3, but the Windows Media Player that’s built into the same PC can, (well it should be able to!) However when I tried, this is what the Playstation told me. Media Server Error: A DNLA protocol error (2104) has occurred. Solution Note: Your local firewall on the Windows 7 machine can also cause this problem. I have a decent firewall at home, so I disabled...

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Force Media Center to Update its Libraries
Nov17

Force Media Center to Update its Libraries

KB ID 0000627  Problem I use Media Center a lot, and the one thing that bugs me is, every time I add a new film or TV series etc, I have to restart Media Center, restart services, or reboot the entire media PC before I can see them in the list. After some searching it appears that Media Center uses the same repository/database of media that Windows Media Player uses. There is a convoluted method of stopping services, deleting files...

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