Hi list I have trouble setting my new notebook as vdr-streamdev client I have this setup server side P4 2.4 GHz processor 512 RAM twinhan budget dvb-s card Mandriva 10.1 with kernel updated to 2.6.16.9 vdr 1.3.41 xine plugin 0.7.6 streamdev cvs around may 2005 few other plugins client side Toshiba sattelite M70/340 centrino 1.73 GHz 512 RAM SUSE 10.1 vdr 1.3.41 xine plugin 0.7.6 streamdev cvs around may 2005 I run # vdr -Pxine -Pstreamdev-client SetVideoFormat: 0 SetAudioChannelDevice: 0 SetVolumeDevice: 255 SetPlayMode: 1 [vVMSetDigitalAudioDevice: 0 SetAudioChannelDevice: 0 aA+10+11+11] vdr-xine: Client connecting ... and on anther konsol window # xine --verbose=2 vdr:/tmp/vdr-xine/stream#demux:mpeg_pes xine: found demuxer plugin: Elementary MPEG stream demux plugin load_plugins: plugin dxr3-mpeg2 failed to instantiate itself. load_plugins: plugin mpeg2 will be used for video streamtype 00. av_offset=0 pts spu_offset=0 pts xine_play play_internal ...done video_out: throwing away image with pts 43718 because it's too old (diff : 4479). but I get no [video|sound|osd] here some logs # tail -f /var/log/messages vdr: [3970] initializing plugin: streamdev-client (0.3.3-pre3-geni): VTP Streaming Client vdr: [3970] setting primary device to 1 vdr: [3970] SVDRP listening on port 2001 vdr: [3970] loading /video/themes/sttng-default.theme vdr: [3970] starting plugin: xine vdr: [3970] starting plugin: streamdev-client vdr: [3970] reading EPG data from /video/epg.data vdr: [3970] loading /video/themes/sttng-default.theme vdr: [3970] ERROR: remote control XineRemote not ready! vdr: [3970] remote control KBD - learning keys vdr: [3976] streamdev-client: sections assembler thread started (pid=3970, tid=3976) vdr: [3977] section handler thread started (pid=3970, tid=3977) vdr: [3978] KBD remote control thread started (pid=3970, tid=3978) vdr: [3970] switching to channel 1 vdr: [3970] Streamdev: Connected to server 192.168.0.4:2004 using capabilities TSPIDS vdr: [3979] transfer thread started (pid=3970, tid=3979) vdr: [3980] receiver on device 6 thread started (pid=3970, tid=3980) vdr: [3981] TS buffer on device 6 thread started (pid=3970, tid=3981) vdr: [3979] setting audio track to 1 (0) # ll /tmp/vdr-xine/ total 0 prw-rw-rw- 1 root root 0 Jul 22 17:13 external.control prw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jul 22 17:13 external.result prw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jul 22 17:13 stream prw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jul 22 17:13 stream.control prw-rw-rw- 1 root root 0 Jul 22 17:13 stream.event prw-rw-rw- 1 root root 0 Jul 22 17:13 stream.result I've noticed that the modified time stamp for the 4 files stream* doesn't change over time I think it should change as when I use xine plugin on my server to watch locally sorry for my long post TIA --------------------------------------------- Free POP3 Email from www.Gawab.com Sign up NOW and get your account @gawab.com!!