Allshare works pretty nicely

[pjs2004]

I was testing out Allshare with Windows Media Player and it's pretty cool. I streamed some mp3s, photos, and a few videos to my Captivate. The mp4 and avi videos I tried worked fine, but another avi video and a wmv video did not work in the player on the phone. Of course, that avi file came from Canon Digital Elph and those files sometimes give me error messages when I play them in Windows, depending on the player. For the ones that worked, it was very smooth (even being on the edge of my wifi network) and great quality. WMP also sees the phone, from my PC, and I can play any media files on the phone from WMP.

Allshare also sees the media share from my DirecTV receiver. I was excited for a second because I could see all the programs I recorded, but unfortunately the files don't play. I'd be nice if that came out with an app for that, but I doubt it.