Is there some magic to getting mvpmc to launch via telnet? When I tried it, it seemed to go into an endless loop:
# mvpmc -s 192.168.0.203 --web-port 80 child pid 213 MediaMVP Media Center Version 0.3.2-pre Re-starting to convince aspect ratio stuff to work... Sun Dec 3 03:00:34 EST 2006child exited cleanly child pid 214 MediaMVP Media Center Version 0.3.2-pre Sun Dec 3 03:00:34 EST 2006NTSC mode, 720x480 createfont: (height == 0) found builtin font System (0) createfont: (height == 0) found builtin font System (0) screen is 720 x 480 Initializing PAT Decoder approximate heap size 286720 audio write thread started (pid 216) Allocated 4194304 heap bytes Allocated guard page mpeg read thread started (pid 217) video write thread started (pid 218) audio thread started (pid 219) Demux size video: 2097152 audio: 524288 Setting WSS aspect to: 8 nano-X: GsError Bad window size: 0 nano-X: GsError Bad window size: 0 nano-X: GsError Bad window size: 0 nano-X: GsError Bad window size: 0 nano-X: GsError Bad window size: 0 nano-X: GsError Bad window size: 0 nano-X: GsError Bad window size: 0 nano-X: GsError Bad window size: 0 nano-X: GsError Bad window size: 0 nano-X: GsError Bad window size: 0 nano-X: GsError Bad window size: 0 nano-X: GsError Bad window size: 0 child failed, with status 11, restarting... child pid 222 MediaMVP Media Center Version 0.3.2-pre Sun Dec 3 03:00:34 EST 2006NTSC mode, 720x480 createfont: (height == 0) found builtin font System (0) createfont: (height == 0) found builtin font System (0) screen is 720 x 480 Initializing PAT Decoder approximate heap size 286720 audio write thread started (pid 224) Allocated 4194304 heap bytes Allocated guard page mpeg read thread started (pid 225) video write thread started (pid 226) audio thread started (pid 227) Demux size video: 2097152 audio: 524288 # mvpmc -s 192.168.0.203 child pid 231 MediaMVP Media Center Version 0.3.2-pre Re-starting to convince aspect ratio stuff to work... Sun Dec 3 03:00:34 EST 2006child exited cleanly child pid 232 MediaMVP Media Center Version 0.3.2-pre Sun Dec 3 03:00:34 EST 2006NTSC mode, 720x480 createfont: (height == 0) found builtin font System (0) createfont: (height == 0) found builtin font System (0) screen is 720 x 480 Initializing PAT Decoder approximate heap size 286720 audio write thread started (pid 234) Allocated 4194304 heap bytes Allocated guard page mpeg read thread started (pid 235) video write thread started (pid 236) audio thread started (pid 237) Demux size video: 2097152 audio: 524288 Setting WSS aspect to: 8 nano-X: GsError Bad window size: 0 nano-X: GsError Bad window size: 0 nano-X: GsError Bad window size: 0 nano-X: GsError Bad window size: 0 nano-X: GsError Bad window size: 0 nano-X: GsError Bad window size: 0 nano-X: GsError Bad window size: 0 nano-X: GsError Bad window size: 0 nano-X: GsError Bad window size: 0 nano-X: GsError Bad window size: 0 nano-X: GsError Bad window size: 0 nano-X: GsError Bad window size: 0 child failed, with status 11, restarting... child pid 240 MediaMVP Media Center Version 0.3.2-pre Sun Dec 3 03:00:34 EST 2006NTSC mode, 720x480 createfont: (height == 0) found builtin font System (0) createfont: (height == 0) found builtin font System (0) screen is 720 x 480 Initializing PAT Decoder approximate heap size 286720 audio write thread started (pid 242) Allocated 4194304 heap bytes Allocated guard page mpeg read thread started (pid 243) video write thread started (pid 244) audio thread started (pid 245) Demux size video: 2097152 audio: 524288 [...] Also, after a successful launch (via dongle.bin.config) the process table on the MVP looks like: # ps PID Uid VmSize Stat Command 1 root 160 S init 2 root SW [keventd] 3 root SWN [ksoftirqd_CPU0] 4 root SW [kswapd] 5 root SW [bdflush] 6 root SW [kupdated] 7 root Z [cifsoplockd] 8 root SW [mtdblockd] 50 root 112 S /usr/sbin/telnetd 76 root 136 S udhcpc 88 root 84 S /bin/ntpclient -d -l -h 192.168.0.35 89 root 356 S mvpmc -s 192.168.0.203 --web-port 80 96 root 8040 S mvpmc -s 192.168.0.203 --web-port 80 97 root 8040 S mvpmc -s 192.168.0.203 --web-port 80 98 root 8040 S mvpmc -s 192.168.0.203 --web-port 80 99 root 8040 S mvpmc -s 192.168.0.203 --web-port 80 100 root 8040 S mvpmc -s 192.168.0.203 --web-port 80 101 root 8040 S mvpmc -s 192.168.0.203 --web-port 80 102 root 8040 S mvpmc -s 192.168.0.203 --web-port 80 103 root 8040 S mvpmc -s 192.168.0.203 --web-port 80 104 root 8040 S mvpmc -s 192.168.0.203 --web-port 80 105 root 8040 S mvpmc -s 192.168.0.203 --web-port 80 106 root 8040 S mvpmc -s 192.168.0.203 --web-port 80 107 root 228 S -sh 109 root 168 R ps The debug output when I launched mvpmc via telnet mentions various threads. 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