Upnp

[wtg]

Has anyone got this to work or tried it with Orb's uPnP server?

I just noticed that Orb has one of these set on by default, and since I'm already using Orb for access to my media outside of the network I figured it was worth experimenting with. When I tried accessing it via the 4/15 dongle, it lists the media files fine but playback fails with a quick flash of a "file not found or file is locked" message. No idea how to debug what the real problem is, but thought someone else more knowledgeable may know whether it works or not.

[mvallevand]

Has anyone got this to work or tried it with Orb's uPnP server?

I just noticed that Orb has one of these set on by default, and since I'm already using Orb for access to my media outside of the network I figured it was worth experimenting with. When I tried accessing it via the 4/15 dongle, it lists the media files fine but playback fails with a quick flash of a "file not found or file is locked" message. No idea how to debug what the real problem is, but thought someone else more knowledgeable may know whether it works or not.

I can't tell you if it works, but I can tell you I didn't any support for any UPnP or http authentication mechanisms. If you want to try and debug this you can telnet to your mvp login as root and do the following

mkdir /Orb
djmount -d /Orb

From there navigate to the Orb folder on the mvp and you should see a lot of the UPnP messages output to the screen. Using a telnet program like Putty you'd be able to capture it.

When you are finished issue this.

fusermount -u /Orb

Martin

[heywood]

I am a newbie and I wanted to see if it was possible to still use media connect function of mediaplayer 11 with the mvpmc i am using the latest dongle, but I do not think the sharing service which I guess is acting as a UPnP server can see the mvp. My goal is to be able to play protected WMA files through the mvp. any help would be greatly appreciated even if it is to tell me it is not possible.

Thanks

[mvallevand]

I am a newbie and I wanted to see if it was possible to still use media connect function of mediaplayer 11 with the mvpmc i am using the latest dongle, but I do not think the sharing service which I guess is acting as a UPnP server can see the mvp. My goal is to be able to play protected WMA files through the mvp. any help would be greatly appreciated even if it is to tell me it is not possible.

Thanks

I hadn't tried this with media player 11 before, but in a quick test using the Vista defaults, it seems to serve up my mpeg video and audio sample files I test with GBPVR fine. Media Player 11 doesn't actually have to see your mvpmc, however when mvpmc tries to connect to your PC I expect you would receive a notification balloon on the task bar with the mvpmc MAC address asking for you to allow the connection.

Since mvpmc doesn't natively support WMA unless you can coerce the server to transcode to mp3, wav, ogg or FLAC you will be out of luck. Also, I do not think DRM is good for the industry, but I leave it to you to investigate how this works for you.

Martin

[Jase]

Could you please give me a rough guide as to how i go about loading the dongle bin file from a nas drive.

Many Thanks Jase.

[mvallevand]

Could you please give me a rough guide as to how i go about loading the dongle bin file from a nas drive.

Its not trivial since you have several requirements not the least of which is having a reasonable understanding of dhcp, tftp, and you can compile for your NAS or write PERL if your NAS supports it.

If you have a slugged NSLU2 I can probably help otherwise if you are still interested I suggest you post a message the mvpmc-user mailing list. Be prepared for some frustration.The how-to's on the wiki and the mvpmc site are geared to a full linux install and not to NAS's. If you have an older MVP getting a NAS to load the dongle.bin.config file from a share isn't really difficult, everything else is too technical for this forum.

Also this is really unnecessary, GBPVR can load the dongle as easily as the Hauppauge dongle, and mvpmc can run from power failure to failure in typical use, once I've got emulation working and don't update the dongle as frequently, so I feel why bother doing this to yourself.

Martin

[jksmurf]

Could you please give me a rough guide as to how i go about loading the dongle bin file from a nas drive.
Many Thanks Jase.

Presumably you mean the dongle.bin itself and not the dongle.bin.config ... ?

so I feel why bother doing this to yourself

Yeah ... it's hard enough just to get a share going without going to those lengths.... :-)

k.

[Jase]

The nas unit that i have is a synology disk station ds-107 i have been looking at the NSLU2-Linux.org site and a few others. I think i need to start by enabling telnet access and installing the ipkg package management system and then installing a dhcp server, this makes it sound easy .but i know it wont be, so any help would be grateful.

Thanks again Jase

[mvallevand]

The nas unit that i have is a synology disk station ds-107 i have been looking at the NSLU2-Linux.org site and a few others. I think i need to start by enabling telnet access and installing the ipkg package management system and then installing a dhcp server, this makes it sound easy .but i know it wont be, so any help would be grateful.

If you've got an older model (non revision H) you might be able to do it using just the ipkg files if you can setup both a dhcp server and a tftp server. Having telnet really doesn't give you much other than the capability to start tinkering.

Once you've got both servers running, likely with the help of some synology hackers, contact the mvpmc-user mailing list at http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=103474
Someone might know enough to help.

If you have a revision H machine. You have to do even more, you will need the additional help of someone who can cross-compile for your NAS and you won't need DHCP but you need to get TFTP working and then contact the mailing list.

Note that I don't recommend that you do this unless you are doing it solely for experimental purposes. I can't say I will have the time to help you out on the mailing list either, I figured it all out on my own, well with google, and lots of Linux how-to's.

Martin

[Jase]

This will be my last post on this subject here as i know it has gone well of topic. I have been doing some reading on getting the mvp to boot from a nas drive, i see what you mean it is not straight forward. As i have said before the nas drive i have is a synology ds-107. The mvp model i have is a d3A-Uk.
I have installed a dhcp server and tftp server on the nas drive via ipkg optware packages. I have tried to set these up but have had no luck as yet.
At this point i seem to be reading conflicting veiws as to weather i need a tftp server or to serve the dongle via a bootp request.

Do i need a perl script to send the dongle?

Can i use my router as my dhcp server?

Is there a way i can tell if my tftp server/dhcp servers are running?

I know this is a pain but it is just for learning/experimental purposes.

Thanks For your help Jase.