Posted on Wednesday, August 09, 2006 4:25 PM
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...