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Hi,

I have serious problems with my new MVP H3 Rev 2.05 (wired). After a lot of try & error I found a setup, which at least let the MVP boot occasionally (needs about 10 to 20 minutes). Once booted, I can view live TV and recordings, but the MVP freezes quickly when doing some action (e.g. rewinding). When it freezed, I need to power off the MVP for at least 15 minutes until it's able to boot again ("able" means it needs again 10 to 20 minutes...).

Of course this is not what I expected from my MVP, so I hope I can find help here in this forum 

My setup is:

• Debian i386 Etch, all VDR packages from e-tobi.
• Official 0.7.2 dongle (from loggytronic.com) with a proper dongle.bin.ver generated with the dd command posted 1000 times in VDR forums
• Bootp disabled in vomp.conf: DHCP is provided by a server in my network. DHCP was never a problem.
• TFTP enabled in vomp.conf: dongle.bin and dongle.bin.ver are placed in the proper directory

These are the vompserver.log messages:

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20:09:38.557622 [info]   Main - Logging started
20:09:38.558803 [debug]  UDPReplier - UDP replier started
20:09:38.558938 [info]   Main - Not starting Bootpd
20:09:38.559049 [info]   Main - TFTP path '/usr/share/vdr-plugin-vompserver/'
20:09:38.559069 [debug]  Tftpd - Starting TFTPd
20:09:38.559119 [debug]  Tftpd - TFTP server started with base path '/usr/share/vdr-plugin-vompserver/'
20:09:38.559168 [debug]  MVPRelay - MVPRelay replier started
20:09:38.559187 [info]   Main - MVPRelay started
20:09:38.559222 [debug]  Main - MVPServer run success
20:09:57.625999 [debug]  MVPRelay - MVPRelay request from 192.168.42.51
20:09:57.626102 [debug]  MVPRelay - Sending my IP as c0a82a46
20:09:59.154172 [debug]  Tftpd - Wait finished
20:09:59.154275 [debug]  TftpClient - Client handler started
20:09:59.154358 [debug]  Tftpd - Starting wait
20:09:59.154389 [debug]  TftpClient - RRQ received for dongle.bin.ver
20:09:59.154421 [info]   TftpClient - File: '/usr/share/vdr-plugin-vompserver/dongle.bin.ver'
20:09:59.156607 [debug]  Tftpd - Wait finished
20:09:59.156630 [debug]  TftpClient - Client handler started
20:09:59.156665 [debug]  Tftpd - Starting wait
20:09:59.156688 [debug]  TftpClient - RRQ received for dongle.bin
20:09:59.156709 [info]   TftpClient - File: '/usr/share/vdr-plugin-vompserver/dongle.bin'
20:10:01.355027 [debug]  TftpClient - Retransmitting buffer
20:10:01.895027 [debug]  TftpClient - Retransmitting buffer
20:10:01.895655 [ERR]    TftpClient - Client sent a data packet!
20:10:01.895677 [info]   TftpClient - processMessage terminating connection
20:10:02.455028 [debug]  TftpClient - Retransmitting buffer
20:10:03.555033 [debug]  TftpClient - Retransmitting buffer
20:10:04.655563 [debug]  TftpClient - Retransmitting buffer
20:10:05.755038 [debug]  TftpClient - Retransmitting buffer
20:10:06.855041 [debug]  TftpClient - Retransmitting buffer
20:10:06.890157 [debug]  Tftpd - Wait finished
20:10:06.890190 [debug]  TftpClient - Client handler started
20:10:06.890307 [debug]  Tftpd - Starting wait
20:10:06.890337 [debug]  TftpClient - RRQ received for dongle.bin
20:10:06.890361 [info]   TftpClient - File: '/usr/share/vdr-plugin-vompserver/dongle.bin'
20:10:07.955041 [debug]  TftpClient - Retransmitting buffer
20:10:08.019399 [debug]  TftpClient - Retransmitting buffer
20:10:09.055056 [debug]  TftpClient - Retransmitting buffer
20:10:09.119044 [debug]  TftpClient - Retransmitting buffer
20:10:10.155049 [debug]  TftpClient - Retransmitting buffer
20:10:10.155223 [debug]  TftpClient - Lost connection, exiting
20:10:10.219046 [debug]  TftpClient - Retransmitting buffer
20:10:11.319053 [debug]  TftpClient - Retransmitting buffer
20:10:11.920271 [debug]  Tftpd - Wait finished
20:10:11.920362 [debug]  TftpClient - Client handler started
20:10:11.920446 [debug]  Tftpd - Starting wait
20:10:11.920477 [debug]  TftpClient - RRQ received for dongle.bin
20:10:11.920506 [info]   TftpClient - File: '/usr/share/vdr-plugin-vompserver/dongle.bin'
20:10:12.419056 [debug]  TftpClient - Retransmitting buffer
20:10:13.059055 [debug]  TftpClient - Retransmitting buffer
20:10:13.059762 [ERR]    TftpClient - Client sent a data packet!
20:10:13.059784 [info]   TftpClient - processMessage terminating connection
20:10:13.519076 [debug]  TftpClient - Retransmitting buffer
20:10:14.619059 [debug]  TftpClient - Retransmitting buffer


Any many more of these "dongle.bin" requests.

I also tried disabling TFTP in vompserver setting up a standalone TFTP daemon. Same procedure here: dongle.bin.ver request works, the dongle.bin requests are repeated a lot of times.

Besides this my network is quite stable. To exclude hardware problem I tried different network cables including a WLAN bridge without any changes in the strange behaviour.

To exclude whether vdr-plugin-vompserver is broken in some way, I compiled libmvp and vdrmvp from CVS: it works with the builtin Hauppauge dongle, but has similar TFTP problems with a newer one. Same here: after some time transferring the file did work. But mvpvdr is no option for me: it's not internationalized, it has problems with special characters in filenames and the TV picture is quite dark and has a bad quality. So I really want to get vomp up and running

Thanks a lot for reading. I hope someone can help.

Regards,

Jö