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Glad you got it sorted.....but like Speedy never heard of WFC.......seems to 'push' windows firewall further similar to commercial firewalls.....learn't something new....

Yes Its allowed, I'm running windows. UMS runs fine without my firewall controller program being active. However as it currently stands I believe the program is blocking UMS from communicating even though I can't find the rule that says to do so.

Following on from Speedy.....what windows version ...

Thanks for taking the time. The PS3 is connecting via wireless, so I suppose it counts as an external entity? WFC will certainly block UMS if left on at any rate. WFC will also protect against OUTgoing connections just as much as INgoing connections, so it may be that WFC is blocking UMS, not that ...

TBH I'm trying to understand what you are trying to achieve, on an internal network....your home network the firewall should not come into play as all your connected hardware is trusted as it's internal. The firewall would not block a connection to your ps3 on the internal network, the firewall ...

I have installed the media info plugin on the new version and get the following error, this is only the first line of the actual error....

ERROR 2013-07-10 07:43:53.679 [New I/O worker #2] Failed to add additional folder for listener of type: class net.pms.movieinfo.MovieInfo
java.lang ...

Have you tried downloading and installing from here http://mediainfo.sourceforge.net/en/Download this is what I used, you say these are installed...but so did my Linux distro, using this site solved the error.

Ok. update on this.....have removed alpha version and now seems to be working, however 2 things,

1. Even though Mencoder is the default renderer it still plays using ffmeg, if I disable ffmeg then Mencoder works....seems rather odd.

2. The no input that was appearing in the log, seems to emanate ...

Is there any way to get it to work without having to have CoreAVC installed?

You should be able to by adding a command line switch under Transocde Settings/Mencoder, you may have to install additional codecs....best thing is to google information regarding command line switches specific to your ...

Zero3K wrote:I fixed it by assigning the IP address of 10.0.1.12 to the 2nd router and then moved the Ethernet cord from the "Internet" plug to the "1" plug.

Glad you got it sorted...

Zero3K wrote:So, I take it as there's no way to have it not be uploading at random speeds then?

No afraid not....as I say the other option is to try a another powerline, there is a thread on here, probably on page 2 someone having a similar problem, the solution was to change the powerline and the switch.