VMP74 stopped working?
raymartin01
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I bought a Viewsonic VMP74 Media Player about 5 weeks ago and I was very pleased with it. However, since yesterday, it doesn't like being connected to my LAN. If the ethernet plug is in, playback (of ANY media) stops after 20-30 seconds and I can only back out by powering off.
I haven't changed anything on the LAN and everything else on it is the same as it's always been.
What makes this totally bizarre is my friend has the same box and his developed the exact same fault yesterday. Viewsonic CS seem to think it's a hardware problem, but what are the chances of two units a few hundred miles apart developing the same fault on the same day?
Any advice anyone?
I haven't changed anything on the LAN and everything else on it is the same as it's always been.
What makes this totally bizarre is my friend has the same box and his developed the exact same fault yesterday. Viewsonic CS seem to think it's a hardware problem, but what are the chances of two units a few hundred miles apart developing the same fault on the same day?
Any advice anyone?
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If i find time i will try and take a packet capture to see what it is accessing on the net that is causing the problem.
Started freezing intermittently sometime between the 10th - 13th June, & got progressively worse.
Have applied your fix, and it's now working with the films on the server.
Interesting that this should happen to us all at nearly the same time? The only common links I can think of are:
1. Firmware?
2. IPv6 being introduced by ISPs at around that date?
Thanks for your posts, I was getting ready to dump the unit & buy another media player!
The fixs of setting a static ip address, gateway to 0.0.0 and dns to 0.0.0 worked well. Thank you.
Look forward to the new version of firmware to sort the problem out.
You can DL from here:
ftp://vseftp.viewsoniceurope.com/Digital%20Media%20Firmware/VMP74%20Firm
ware/
File Name: v01.16.13.18.35_ViewSonic_VMP74.zip
Login: vseftpguest
PW: proactive
Scratch that last post! Version number IS slightly different from version I had loaded.