How to watch YouTube on your TV?

How to watch YouTube and other RSS feed video/audio podcast on your TV.

Ever wanted to watch your YouTube stuff on the TV? Well I do, especially if I do not need to wake for it to download as well… Well here’s how.

You need a Digital Media Adapter. In my current setup, I’m using a Philips Streamium series, SLM5500. It has got a wireless 802.11g network port which I connect to my WiFi router. My pc(laptop) is then wired(mostly)/wirelessly connected to the internet.

Since Philips comes with a Media-Manager software, I chose to install a program call TVersity (www.tversity.com) on my PC running XP. It’s free for now, in its beta testing version 0.9.9.2(beta), however it is incredible software.

Step 1
Download and install Tversity from http://download.tversity.com/TVersity_Setup_0_9_9_2.exe and install into my PC.

Step 2
Download and install the free codec from http://www.free-codecs.com/, I used the full package “K_Lite_Codec_Pack” which have most of the stuff required already.

Step 3
After the installation,
I modified the file "C:\Program Files\TVersity\Media Server\profile.xml” by adding my own SLM5500 profile.

http://forums.tversity.com/viewtopic.php?t=2117&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0
Although you might have to replace the Sony Vaio profile instead.

I then added another file call “C:\Program Files\TVersity\Media Server\UPNP_AV_MediaServer_1.0.slm.xml” in the same directory so that I could rename the display name.

All I did was to copy the UPNP_AV_MediaServer_1.0.default.xml and change one line
"friendlyName "TVersity for Philips "/friendlyName"

So that I could get a better display name.

Step 4
Start TVersity by clicking on the icon, go to the
> Settings tab
> Transcoder - Video and Image resolution is 720x576.
> Internet Feeds set
Max download files is 4
Number of New items is 200.
(I just want to buffer as many stuff overnight as possible)


Ø Add Internet Feed / Podcast > Add Video Feed

Ø Video Feed : http://youtube.com/rss/global/top_viewed_today.rss

Ø


After that add as much RSS feeds and let the PC running. It will download content overnight and you should have enough content to keep yourself entertain for awhile.