SMB video stops at fixed time points (after installing new router)

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. playing a video from an SMB share that is at least 20 minutes long
2. after 20 minutes it just stops (like at the end of a regular playback)
and goes back to menu
3.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
After stopping playback, mplayer returns to the file browser menu, which
does not look like a hard crash. When I directly retry playback though, it
keeps getting stuck on endlessly displaying "loading vobsub" & "opening
stream" (I will figure out the exact messages later if necessary).

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
MPLAYER-CE: 0.76
OS: Windows XP
ROUTER: Fritz!Box 7170

Do you have a modchip?
no

Please provide any additional information below.
Interestingly, this problem suddenly arose once I had installed my new
router (fritz!box 7170). Using my old router (SpeedTouch 7**, forgot the
full version nr), I never experienced this problem, so I figured it must be
something relating to the fritz!box. However, I couldn't come up with
anything, except for a few tips regarding SMB keep-alive messages, but
could not find any setting to adjust..

Original issue reported on code.google.com by marinusb...@gmail.com on 1 Jan 2010 at 11:53

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I have the same problems with a Netgear wpn824v3 worked perfectly with my old 
router 
but doesn't work with my new router. I downgraded to .75 and no longer have an 
issue, 
so it is a software issue. I just don't know if it is a problem with cios or 
Mplayer.

Original comment by JWhittak...@gmail.com on 3 Jan 2010 at 10:19

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I have looked a bit more into this, but even after downgrade, it still gives 
the same
issues...

So figured a packet sniffer would give me some clues and interestingly I found 
that
Mplayer crashed right after my router sent a DHCP NAK broadcast.. Googling this
message got me to the following: "A NAK is a negative acknowledgment from DHCP. 
This
can be done when an address renewal is refused by the DHCP server, or a 
duplicate IP
address exists when requesting an offered IP address, among other reasons."

Of course, I figured it might be something related to my Wii internet settings. 
So I
removed my settings to ensure nothing from my old router remained. Then, when I 
setup
my new connection, the problem still remains (with DHCP NAK messages right 
before
failure) :-(...

Any thoughts?

Original comment by marinusb...@gmail.com on 15 Jan 2010 at 3:01

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uhmm, The DHCP protocol utilizes UDP ports 67 and 68 and we are using only tcp 
connections, so it's a problem with ios network stuff. I have the same problem 
if I use 
a belkin repetear, seems that wii doesn't handle dchp nak packet in the rigth 
way and 
cut the network connection, because I need to restart mplayer to get network 
working 
again. Maybe I can try to detect a disconnection and reconnect but probably the 
film 
stop before I can reconnect again, what I've done is save restore point on 
error to 
continue watching the film at the same point.

Original comment by rodries@gmail.com on 15 Jan 2010 at 6:56

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Yeah, I was afraid of that, though it remains weird to me that there is a 
difference
between routers. Nevertheless, I worked out a workaround by just entering a 
static
IP-address within Wii internet settings (which just avoids DHCP communication). 
No
crashes this time.. All in all not the most neat solution, but at least my 
problem is
resolved..

Thanks for the help

Original comment by marinusb...@gmail.com on 15 Jan 2010 at 7:59