Thanks Dominic,
I tried 23038. No success. It loads the dongle.bin and tries to find a mediamvp-server without success.
standalone version within the plugin? My hunch is that this a problem with IP address of the hostname turning out to be 127.0.0.1 which causes the MVP to try to connect to itself!
This was it. Changed hosts to exclude the VDRs hostname from localhost and everything is working.
I even tried vompserver. Both work fine, but I prefer the mediamvp Plugin. I just have to setup some internet radio stations and will be a happy camper.
Thanks again.