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I do not manually set the ip.

Here's what the router reports:

MAC Address   b8:ca:3a:95:21:8f
IPv4 Address / Name   192.168.1.68 / studyPC2
Last Activity   Thu Nov 21 10:36:27 2024
Status   on
Allocation   dhcp
Connection Type    

Ethernet LAN-4

Connection Speed    100Mbps fullduplex
Mesh Client   No
IPv6 Address   2600:1700:37af:b010::48
Type   dhcp
Valid Lifetime   2592000s
Preferred Lifetime   604800s
IPv6 Address   2600:1700:37af:b010:660:4d7a:8dc0:6bd8
Type   slaac
Valid Lifetime   3600s
Preferred Lifetime   3600s
IPv6 Address   2600:1700:37af:b010:c10c:5d77:7753:9aca
Type   slaac
Valid Lifetime   3600s
Preferred Lifetime   3600s
IPv6 Address   fe80::e9cc:7bb3:f6c6:ff65
Type   slaac
Valid Lifetime   forever
Preferred Lifetime   forever

Most people can get this to work, yes. There are however many ways to have networking issues, this is not an MC problem per se. MC is working as you can reach it via the local LAN address.

Did you manually assign IP 192.168.1.68 to your PC, or is it automatic (DHCP) ? If it's manually set (static) your router may be forwarding to the wrong IP address. Check the router to see if it knows StudyPC2 maps to 192.168.1.68.

At this point, unless you have some other security software installed, the most likely cause is still the router.

I went through this a while ago. The problem was that Comcast has an Advanced Security feature which blocked the port forwarding. Once I turned that off, everything worked. Are there any security settings on your Gateway that you can turn off as a test? Grasping at straws.

Port forwarding is still in place and I've rebooted the modem.  I'll try rebooting everything in the morning and trying again. Thanks for all your effort. Hopefully we can see this through.

Restarted everything this morning and I'm still basically exactly where I was when I started.  Media Center works fine when on the same LAN as the library, but can't connect from the outside.

Any ideas?  Port forwarding is in place, MC 32 is granted access to communicate through the firewall, the ip address looks right.  This was supposed to be "not that hard", but it seems to be quite difficult.  Is anybody else able to make this work?

Thanks for the fast reply! This was easier than I thought...

OK, so here is an answer
Rename all of the files to .mkv
Then they load into the library as TV shows.
JRiver seems to know that they are .MP4 and says so
They seem to play fine. Amazing

Any black friday discounts this year? Thanks.

These all have the correct format to nominate them as a series.

But they end up as 280 plus movies in the movies section, not as series in the shows section under videos class. ??

So, if I just rename the .MP4 to .MKV, and re import they show up in the SHOWS section....which is where I would like them of course?
not sure if they play or not yet with the .MKV rename.

Rather than convert all 280 plus of these from mp4 to MKV, is there a setting in JRiver that will sort this out and correctly allocate these TV series to the shows section of the Video category?

Thanks Guys. Sorry if I am a bit slow here and am asking a question that has been answered 100 times, But I cannot find it anywhere.

Also make sure you can resolve studyPC2 or that name is pointing to the correct address. Perhaps try putting in its IP Address instead.

It now times out for me as well, so the port is indeed changed.

So, back to the other causes... There's still something blocking access. Is the port forward still in place? Try rebooting the router too.

Port forwarding is still in place and I've rebooted the modem.  I'll try rebooting everything in the morning and trying again. Thanks for all your effort. Hopefully we can see this through.