Trouble playing movie from a link

[brutusmacgregor]

I'm trying to make my own theme/skin and have made it looking like a bit like the other fancy automatic stuff. Instead of having it being automatically made I just make a folder for every movie and make a custom page for that movie. In this page there is a play button, back button, big movie picture and some information about the movie. Pretty simple stuff, but it looks good and it is very easy to duplicate for other movies.

This works on several movies but now I am trying to play some dvd-images, one is .iso and the other is .img, and only get the "Can not play"-message. I can play these movies if I navigate to them, but not by using a link.

By duplicating the first working page, and only change the name on the links, this should work if I type the link name correctly. And I have checked and checked again that it is correct! If it wasn't correct I wouldn't have gotten the "Could not play" either? Maybe a "File not found?"
The link looks like this:

Code:

<a href="http://localhost.drives:8883/HARD_DISK/Video/Dvd/Varg Veum/Varg Veum3 - Din til doden.img" TVID="Play" name="start" vod="">

(Btw, I used some time finding the link in some random post. I wish someone could make a sticky or a sample saying "Use this format to make a link:...". Yesterday I found Syabas html-extension put forgot where...:blush

[excal]

for any sort of full disc image that has menus you need to use zcd="2" instead of vod=""

that includes video_ts img, iso, nrg, etc etc

[brutusmacgregor]

(02-17-2009 07:44 PM)excal Wrote:  for any sort of full disc image that has menus you need to use zcd="2" instead of vod=""

that includes video_ts img, iso, nrg, etc etc

Thank you for a very fast answer, but I'm still not quite there. Now my link looks like this:

Code:

<a href="http://localhost.drives:8883/HARD_DISK/Video/Dvd/Varg Veum/Varg Veum3 - Din til doden.img" TVID="Play" name="start" zcd="2">

but it still wont play the movie. The colorful Popcorn logo appear but then nothing. If I press Play it just goes to the previous picture.

And why zcd="2"? Is this something I should have googled?

[excal]

zcd="2" is just a popcornhour thing...i donno why. Its just their designation for that type of file.

You probably need to reboot your box before it'll work.

[brutusmacgregor]

(02-17-2009 08:26 PM)excal Wrote:  zcd="2" is just a popcornhour thing...i donno why. Its just their designation for that type of file.

You probably need to reboot your box before it'll work.

Nope, it didn't change a thing. Thanks for telling med the zcd="2"-thing. Maybe I'll get it to work somehow. I will keep on trying.

Btw, here is what I'm am doing...


Pressing "Filmer" (movies) will take me to...


And selecting Good luck Chuck will display this page...


...and hopefully play the image-file some day.

[excal]

Ok, if its still not playing after a reboot, then its one of a few things

1. The path in the href is wrong somehow (quite likely). If one letter is upper case when it should be lower case, it'll cause the link to not work.

2. Something is wrong with the file itself, and the way it was encoded makes it unplayable on the Popcornhour


Is it happening with all iso's and img's?

[brutusmacgregor]

Aaah, you are my saviour! I also suspected some wrong path, but I checked it SO many times! Some how Flashfxp corrupted my htm-files, and I had to use my trusty TotalCommander to transfer these files. But TotalCommander refuses sometimes to make directories with more than one capital letter, so a folder named Dvd got named DVD when right clicking. Anywho... I renamed and checked and got rid of everything in my links and only used

Code:

<a href="../../Video/Dvd/Good luck Chuck.iso" zcd="2">

and it worked like a charm!

Thanks for not giving up on me! No I am in total control again.

(Btw, this works on both iso and img.)