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Hi All.

Right now I am trying to play internet radio over MediaMVPs running vomp. (TV works for years now.) I have spent some hours searching and tried vdr-plugin-mp3 but this seems to work only with full featured cards. (I have a budget system and no reason so far to "upgrade" it.)
AFAIK the only chance to play internet radio with MVPs are patches developed by AVVDR and/or Andreas Vogel. But a patched vdr installation is harder to maintain...

Any ideas?

TIA
ekluba.  

Hi alltogether.

Is it possible to load dongle.bin before vdr is running? I have tried google, searched the topics here and vdr-portal but didn't find a solution.

The scenario is as follows:

My local LAN has a central 7x24 server running DHCP and DNS services. To save power this Server runs on a nslu2. My VDR runs on Dell Optiplex GX200. It is started by wake-on-lan from the dhcpd on nslu2 whenever a MediaMVP requests a lease from the DHCP server.

Since it takes a few minutes for VDR to boot, MediaMVP fails to locate the vdr and prompts the user to start a new scan. For me this is not a big problem. But visitors, guests and - that's of course the real problem - my wife don't like it.

Of course there are several workarounds. As always. For the moment i am just adding a MediaMVP to each TV in the household. This means using the existing set top box for live tv and using the MediaMVP to set timers and play recordings.

It would be better to use the streaming client to do all of it. This means: MediaMVP should load the dongle.bin from the nslu2 while VDR is already booting. The loaded dongle.bin then should be able to connect to the VDR as soon at it comes up. Keeping the user informed what is going on.


Any ideas?

TIA.
ekluba.


A short description of my LAN for you information:

- VDR and vdr-vompserver-plugin are running on Dell Optiplex gx200.
- vomp-client runs on MediaMVP H4.
- DHCP and DNS run on nslu2
- DSL is done by fritz!box fon 5140 (with DHCP disabled)