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Hi all (esp. Chris),
I like vomp a lot - great work!
I use it now heavily and found it lacks media player functionality (anyway works much better then mediamvp oder mvpmc...).
So I started to work on adding media player functionality.
Currently I got the picture display working (was prio 1 for me). So I would like to share this with you - and to start discussion about some further work.
I've prepared the patches against todays cvs for client and server. Should I post them here? (about 150k).
- aa - they include WOL too (I use this heavily)...
@Chris: What do you think - would you like to integrate this into the project? I saw there is heavy progress in CVS - so I got my last snap about 2 weeks ago and I needed some time to merge everything...
I would be happy to put the staff into CVS...
Maybe some short Ideas about further work:
My prio 1 would be the audio (mp3) player - but I saw that there is ongoing work in the player area - so difficult to manage this.
I attach at least my readme that contains some descriptions and an overview about the functionality.

Regards
Andreas

[#my server is 10.222.11.4, my mvp should get 10.222.10.40#the next is the important line!option routers 10.222.11.4;ddns-update-style none;allow bootp;allow booting;default-lease-time 14400;subnet 10.222.11.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 { range 10.222.11.20 10.222.11.40; default-lease-time 14400; max-lease-time 172800;}group { next-server 10.222.11.4; host mvp { # NOTE: Change the hardware ethernet to the MAC address of your actual MVP hardware ethernet 00:0d:fe:00:78:e6; fixed-address 10.222.11.40; filename "dongle.bin.mvp"; }}]

Hi Dejuh,
I had similar problems on a Suse9.3 - shortly after starting with vomp (looks very nice...)
Finally I explored that it was really important to have the server machine being setup as router in the DHCP setting, here is my /etc/hdcpd.conf:
#my server is 10.222.11.4, my mvp should get 10.222.10.40
#the next is the important line!
option routers 10.222.11.4;
ddns-update-style none;
allow bootp;
allow booting;
default-lease-time 14400;
subnet 10.222.11.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
  range 10.222.11.20 10.222.11.40;
  default-lease-time 14400;
  max-lease-time 172800;
}
group {
  next-server 10.222.11.4;
  host mvp { # NOTE: Change the hardware ethernet to the MAC address of your actual MVP
    hardware ethernet 00:0d:fe:00:78:e6;
    fixed-address 10.222.11.40;
    filename "dongle.bin.mvp";
  }
}


--
you can check this when you login to the mvp with telnet:
telnet 10.222.10.40
root

ping 255.255.255.255
- should give a reply from your server
if you get network unreachable - you missed the router entry.
you can also try
route
if there is a default - OK, otherwise it will fail.

Maybe this helps...

--> Chris - would it be possible to add an error message to the socket send in the vompclient, this will ease searching for such problems (you should really get a socket error there...)

Regards
Andreas