How to hook up TVersity to a Google TV

Last night I was hunched over my teeny HP 2604ca tablet watching a movie when my girlfriend suggested that I should just transfer the movie file i had to her HP laptop and then hook it up via HDMI to her 40" Sony Google TV.

No. I thought. That would be way too complicated not too mention too much effort. 

Knowing that Google must have implemented some awesomeness in their TV platform (although a bit slow for my likes) I quickly googled and came across TVersity. This amazing application which has a worthy free version automatically will share and stream your media to other devices on your network. Although their website is painful to look at with small illegible text - you can go straight to the download page here and find the the list of features here as of version 1.9.3. 

Play Internet audio, image and video streams and RSS/RDF/ATOM/OPML feeds and podcasts on your TV, Stereo and other connected devicesThe media server streams media from the Internet and delivers it to connected devices via HTTP, the only protocol supported by those devices
Play Premium Internet content on your TVA full list of supported sites is available hereThe only truly universal media server (including support for the Apple iPhone, Sony PSP, the Sony PS3, the Xbox 360, the Nintendo Wii, The Nokia 770/N800 and many more devices)Use the same server for home and mobile networked devices (with multimedia capabilities) whether they support UPnP AV / DLNA or just have a web browser or an RSS/Podcast Reader
Enter your own Internet URLs or select from the bundled Audio and Video GuidesThe media server is bundled with hundreds of TV stations from all over the world and thousands of radio stations
Play your ENTIRE media collection on your connected devicesFinally almost any content that plays in Windows Media Player can be played on any of the supported devices disregarding their codec limitations
Automatic Real-time Seamless TranscodingLet the Media Server automatically detect when a given media needs to be transcoded for playback on your media player
Very fast browsing of your media library with unprecedented speed for huge libraries (up to 100,000 items and more)The Media Server has a very short response time, allowing faster browsing of your media library
Advanced searching and smart playlistsThe Media Server supports keyword searching as well as advanced search experssions and allows search results to be saved as playlists
Easy to use Graphical User InterfaceControl the media server locally or remotely by running the GUI as a web application (both MSIE and Firefox are supported)
Support multiple devices simultaneouslyConnect every room with a TV and other connected devices you own to the same media server
Share media with friends and family via RSSSynchronize your media library with remote installaions of TVersity or with remote Podcast managers like iTunes
Support for all leading tagging formats and then someID3v1, ID3v2, Ogg Vorbis comments in Ogg, FLAC, and MPC/Ape, iTunes AAC tags, MPEG4 tags, ASF tags (WMA, WMV, DVR-MS)
Intuitive NavigationFinally a media server that organizes your media properly, maintaining the order of songs, supporting extensive navigation criteria and doing it all very fast
Manage cache of transcoded mediaNo need to transcode the same media twice
Pause Live Internet feeds just like with TivoWatching live Internet TV and listening to live radio stations have never been so much fun
Runs as a serviceYou no longer need to log on to your computer for the media server to start
Works well on slow system while providing real benefits on faster onesTranscode Internet videos (300 kbps) on very slow systems and downsample high definition videos to standard definition on fast ones
Raw digital camera image supportcrw, cr2, nef, nrw, mrw, orf, raf, dng, erf, x3f, dcr arw, raw, kdc

Installing TVersity took maybe 60 seconds and although it notified me that I needed to restart before the service would work, I was able to open it immediately after installing and tell it to scan my folder of media files for it to add to the library. 

On the home screen of the Google TV simply select Media Player and then there is an option to stream from network or a computer where it will automatically detect DLNA enabled devices on your home network. Underneath your computer name it will say TVersity Server which you can click and then navigate through your media library. Upon finding what you want to watch it will be automatically streamed at the best quality per TVersity's default settings and video control can all be done conveniently from the Google TV remote.

Spare the hassle of cables and other nonsense to watch what you want on your TV. Just tell TVersity to scan your media folder and get to watching what you want.

via Google TV | via TVersity