Client away from home....

[gkreis]

Forgive me if this was answered elsewhere (I couldn't find it with search). I took my laptop on the road, hoping to use GBPV (configured as a PC Client) to watch some movies I copied to the laptop. (Nothing else I've found honors the commercial skip file output).

When I go to start GBPVR, it just quits. When I am back on my home network it is fine. Since my 'video library' has a mapping to a local directory on the laptop, I don't need the server to watch them.

Should GBPVR, configured as a client, still run when it can't find the server? If not, I'd like to suggest that it notice it can't find the server and ask if it should go into 'non client mode'. If I say yes, it would just start up that time, none client.

Is that hard to implement?

[Brian_W]

You are correct, in its current form, if you h ave the client setup to contact the server and it can't find the server, it does not start. You could always just launch the config and deselect client mode and your video libraries will still be there.

Brian

[gkreis]

I was on a ship this past May 2006 in ST Martian, so I was able to remote into my GBPVR box via wirelessly using may laptop through the Ship SAT Network then back to the USA Mainland. It was very interesting to see how well GBPVR worked this way.

Someone must have been bored.... Really, though, bored in St. Martin!

I'll remember to just turn off PC Client in config (duh - guess I wasn't thinking straight - having VLC was my 'out'). Hoping to see a future version ask me what to do when it can't find the client... ;-)