I'm having trouble getting podcasts to work on my client machine, though they appear to be working fine on the server.
I've recently moved to a client server setup with my Media Center. While i had used this feature a bit in the past, it was always a situation where i wanted my HTPC to access my main desktop's library. Now, i have a dedicated server, which my main desktop, HTPC, etc are all connected to.
For the most part, everything has worked fine - music and movies are totally doing what i expect.
However, i now cannot play any podcasts from my client machine - and i'm not sure what i'm missing. This is my main desktop - the machine that was previously in the role of server.
When i bring up Media Center, i can see the podcasts that have been added on the server. However, they never actually load any episodes. The server loads the episodes without any issues - i can remote into that machine and see them listed, and can play them without a problem. But the client is empty.
When i click on a podcast on the client, i get the same controls up top (Play, Update Feed, Edit this Feed, etc), but the list below is empty. Just below those buttons, there's a status message that just gets stuck on "Waiting to load: http://[whatever the podcast is].xml" This is true of both my own subscriptions and the default podcasts as well - i haven't found any that will load now.
What am i missing? Are the podcasts supposed to be loaded on the server and accessed via the client, or is the client supposed to do something independent? I looked at the options for podcast, but i don't see any relevant settings there, nor did i find anything via search. I read a lot of posts, but the only thing that was similar to this indicated that you just had to make sure that the server and client both had the podcast registered or something - but this doesn't seem to be the same problem.
Has anyone else seen this? What other things should i be checking?
Thanks!
