Eeyores sadness

Well, I found a workaround, but it's not an easy one.
This appears as if we use Opera as a front-end. And actually, we do.
We need to create a web-page that looks good on tv (so BIG LETTERS), in which we cun-n-paste our video links, and then navigate that page with the remote control from the zapper.

My setup at home is that I use the zapper on my TV set, and not on the computer. So I need Opera to appear on the TV only. I use firefox for browsing on my computer, so that's not a big issue for me.
I have an NVideo videocard, which has a function to open applications on the screen you want.
The settings screen looks like this: (in dutch)

Main thing is on the right side: I add an app, I tell Nvidea that it opens on screen 2 (TV)

We need Opera plus it's plugin (you can find it here). Add the plugin to pczapper config in media manager.
Now you manually create the webpage containing the links (find a html-template here).
Add this webpage to your meda manager and open it with the zapper. Hopefully this worked and you have video's.

Now tweak opera to not have any toolbars, searchbars, statbars and stuff, make it fullscreen and maybe more to be as functional as it gets on your TV set.
Quite a workaround for a simple thing the zapper isn't recognising: URL's that send back data to a server!!
Hopefully they get a fix on that soon...

Hi all. Haven't been posting for a while, due to holidays, work, family growth and the like...
Guess I won't be posting regular any time soon, but hey, every scrap of good info is still, well, good info.
I've been toying with the google video's and especially how to embed them in the containers.

Since the google vids are basically flash, I first tried to open them with media player 10 on my computer. That works like a charm! So, first thing to do is associate .swf files to media player in the PCZapper Media Manager (the orange thingy next to your computers clock).
Next, rewrite the tag to open the video and start playing it.
It's a very basic tag really:
http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=-[your movie id goes here]&autoplay=true

Try it on google video`s. If you hover over the movies, a doc-id is in the url. That's the one we're talking about here.

Now, for making a container in which to implement this. Tried the URL as usual, in the container creator, but the Zapper Manager doesn't want that.
Changed virtually everything, from the cItem tag to include all possible values, to associations for the browser URL to MediaPlayer: Zapper Manager doesnt' want to deal with tags that end with numbers, I guess. Or the http:// part is what it doesn't swallow. I'm not sure.
Gonna try and write a plugin to let zapper think MediaPlayer is a browser. Maybe that'll work. I'll let you know!