Topic: MediaServer stops after 30 minutes - help wanted

[laurie_lewis]

I am running TwonkyVision Media Server.  It starts up ok and appears to do everything it is supposed to - that is for 30 minutes.  Twonkyvision (www.twonkyvision.com) is designed to work with UPnP clients providing them with digital media to play (music/video/pictures).

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I am not familiar with how it exactly works but I believe that it becomes a HTTP server providing the information to the clients using "http get" commands.  I know that it is able to find a port that it can use on startup away from its default 8080.  I have tried it on fresh installs of SME 6.01 and 7 beta 2.  Same thing happens on both versions.

I have run it on SUSE 9.3 and it works a treat - just keeps playing the media.  Unfortunately on SME it stops at the client end after 30 minutes - always around 30 minutes from the time I start playing the media.  It will continue playing the file it started on before the 30 minutes comes up and as soon as it has finished playing that file it becomes disconnected from the server.   The server software appears to continue to just work.  I can reset the client and it reconnects and it starts to work (for another 30 minutes).  I can also see the twonky server running via its log files so I know it is not locking up.

I am assuming from this that SME is doing something that is preventing the server and the client from reliably communicating with each other, or changing something after 30 minutes, but what I don't know.

Any ideas my friends????

Laurie

[dmajwool]

I had an issue that may be similar.

http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=26183.msg106432#msg106432

I think I remember that SME6.5rc1 didn't exhibit this issue and SUSE9.2 certainly didn't.

I'm afraid I never got to the bottom of the problem. Sorry.

HTH.  David

[laurie_lewis]

Thanks for the update David.

Installed 6.5rc1 and still had same problem.  Client gets disconnected from Server.  I had a look in etc at the cron jobs but could not find anything that really runs every 30 minutes.

It is a real mystery to me.

Laurie

[molski]

Maybe a stupid question, but are you running the Full Version instead of the TRIAL version, that stops working after 30 minutes?

Regards,

Molski

[laurie_lewis]

I am using the Full version - I hope I haven't gone that mad yet.

Are you using it?  are you having any problems?  If you are using it what client?

Laurie

[molski]

Sorry I dont use it at all.

But I read this topic and your problem and took a look on the TwonkyVison website.
There I read that the downloadable version is just a trial that kills itself after 30 minutes of using.

So that's why I asked if you use the trial or the full version, because if you use the trial version....I think your problem is solved


Regards,

Molski

[laurie_lewis]

Just trying to bring it back to the forum to see if anyone can help.  I don't have the experience or knowledge to solve this.

I have tried it with Clark Connect 3.1 and works as it is supposed to but I prefer SME.

Any help appreciated.

Laurie