Windows 10: Viewing TV channels on my Laptop over LAN

Hi All,
Not very computer literate and not sure which area to post this question, so I'm looking for some help on this forum.

Up until one of the recent W10 updates I used to be able to open file explorer, look under my Network locations, click on my Panasonic DVD Recorder (DMR-BWT835) where I was then given the choice of viewing the recorded movies on the recorder's hard drive, or view the digital free to air TV channels on my Acer V17 Nitro Aspire laptop.

I could open each channel (file) in Windows Media Player and watch tv over our LAN on my laptop, the files are M2T.
Windows Media player was the only Media player capable of playing these files, and since a recent update WMP doesn't recognise the files and neither does any other media player I have.

Any help would be appreciated
Thanks in anticipation

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Windows 10 streaming to smart TV problem

My problem was almost the same. I had a lg tv and everything worked well. the tv was connected wired and laptop wireless. I bought a Samsung tv and connected with lan (for better performance i thought) laptop wireless on same network shouldnt be a problem.
Nothing worked. No cast media (unrecognized file type), unable to send over file explorer to tv etc. After that i turned of everything related to internet feedback on mediaplayer's share settings and switched tv to same wireless network as the laptop and everything
started to work.

 

Laptop display to Sharp tv stopped working after update.

I was able to display my laptop (Windows 10) on my Sharp tv until today's laptop update. Can anyone help?

The tv was on the channel, switched on laptop, selected display on device..Sharp tv. The television said, "connecting" the laptop came up with, "couldn't connect".

 

Have you tried VLC Media Player. It has a separate Local Network option? A quick search suggests them files wont work in media player already but some suggested it came up with a error saying not compatible but then still played. Is try VLC.

 

Thanks KingTez, I have tried VLC Media Player. Originally WMP played (streamed) to my laptop without any problems. No other media player would. Now I get "An unexpected error occurred .............."
Do you know if there would be codecs available for WMP to do what I used to be able to do?

 

Not sure if this is just for Store Apps, but give the Mpeg2 vdeo extension from the Store a try, i need this to play tv recordings in the UK

 

Thanks PaulSalter. After downloading and installing for a moment I thought it was going to work but after some time I received the message
'Can't play: Please try again. If the problem continues, visit Xbox One Support | Xbox 360 Support | Xbox Live and Billing Support to guidance. 0xc00d2ee6'. cheers

 

Haver you tried rebooting your router just incase, had some weird things happen and found it to be the router. Reboot solved all lol

 

Another thing to look at, if you can lad the file into VLC, then go to tools and codec information, what does it say

Should look similar to this, think M2T is similar to our TS format, details like below should give more info on file

 

It won't load paulsalter. I open VLC go to Media->Open File click on a file but then VLC just sits there. Very frustrating! Thanks for your suggestions.

 

Have you tried to reconnect to your Panasonic TV Recorder and set it up as you did the first time you used it, via File Explorer -
Connect to Media server:

 

Hi Gordon7, thanks for your suggestions. I tried it, but file explorer didn't find anything.
I suspect it only looks for Bluetooth media servers.
I think my computer recognises the Panasonic DVD recorder (DMR-BWT835/730) because it shows up in my network locations. cheers