Well this was a tricky one. I installed Windows 8 Enterprise and found that my Xbox 360 VIDEO APP would not connect to my Win8 PC… or should I say any of my Win8 PC’s. Very frustrating considering they are all tied together by a Home Group and the Xbox was activated as an Extender to my Media Center machines.
I thought this had to do with authentication. I wanted to figure out how to enter my Windows 8 credentials in Xbox but, as you can see in the screen shots below, the solution was not so dramatic .
On your Windows 8 PC:
- go to the START tiles page
- type MEDIA SH
- select SETTINGS from the menu on the right
- Select MEDIA STREAMING OPTIONS
- Enable sharing with your XBOX
Xbox360: Can’t connect. Make sure you have activated this console on your computer.
18 Comments
Holy Jesus · July 19, 2015 at 4:19 pm
Thanks for this. Been googling for days and finally the right solution pops up! Very annoying this isn’t common knowledge.
alan · May 15, 2013 at 9:17 am
im sorry but what does this help you do, all i want to do is connect my xbox to my laptop so i can stream movies
Ian Matthews · May 19, 2013 at 4:41 pm
I should help you connect your Xbox to your Windows 8 PC so that you can stream music and video content.
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Mark · May 6, 2013 at 12:50 pm
I don’t have media centre, must be a basic version of w8.
How do I connect?
Ian Matthews · May 8, 2013 at 8:01 pm
If you have Windows 8, you have to BUY media center as an addon… see: http://www.urtech.ca/2012/05/solved-where-is-windows-media-center-in-windows-8-and-why-dont-dvds-play/
georege · April 24, 2013 at 9:39 pm
how can you play mkv videos with windows 8 and no media center on desktop
Ian Matthews · May 2, 2013 at 5:53 pm
I would use Media Player Classic or VLC:
http://mpc-hc.org/
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
Satsuma Kawasaki · March 9, 2013 at 5:28 pm
i spent 2 hours trying to work this out i can,t believe how simple it actually is. Thank you so much!!!!!!!
Henrik Smids · February 27, 2013 at 2:08 am
Thanks for a good tutorial 🙂
Melack · January 12, 2013 at 8:42 am
I cant find the Xbox like you in the last Picture. why?
Ian Matthews · January 13, 2013 at 5:02 pm
Sorry Melack; I am confused. If you don’t see that error then this article is not for you. The point of it is to explain how to “correct” that problem.
tonykast@msn.com · November 23, 2012 at 3:21 pm
Ive tried this and i still cant connect, its still working on my wifes laptop running windows 7 but i have windoes 8 pro and the media center app but its not connecting, im picking up the xbox as xbox and xbox extender but they wont connect to each other.
has anyone got any idea’s.
Ian Matthews · November 24, 2012 at 11:18 am
I would have your PC leave the Home Group all together and then try to rejoin it.
braven · November 10, 2012 at 9:50 pm
thx man….that’s exactly what I need
Brandon · November 3, 2012 at 5:52 pm
Wow thank you so much for this! You have no idea how long i’ve been trying to find how to do this.
Tim · November 1, 2012 at 4:02 pm
Thank you so much! I cannot believe how diluted this process is!