Anyone Interested in a Zinc Plugin? (1 Viewer)

[Atreides]

No problem. Does anyone know if they can do a x64 version of this?

 

[Legomaniac]

I am having the same issue as the guy above, when I click launch nothing happens, maybe because my primary drive letter is h?

This plugin would make mp the clear winner, thanks for your help...

 

[Legomaniac]

Well, I tried editing the .dll file to change the two paths it had to H:/ instead of C:/, this unfortunatly did not work...

I did however find out in the process that this computer I am going to use for my HTPC is a 64 bit machine, and it seems now that I have the exact same problem as the guy above...

Any idea is there is some other edit I can do to the hex file to get it to work?

Thanks again,

Legomaniac

 

[Atreides]

Yeah, if you have a 64 bit machine than your 32 bit programs, Zinc, are in the folder program files (x86), instead of just Program Files. I think the zinc plugin is looking in Program Files, so I believe that is the problem and I think you will need to recompile it to look in a different folder.

 

[Legomaniac]

Do I need to recompile the file if I use a hex editor to change the path?

I don't know much about the production flow of programming, so i'm not sure how to change anything other than just editing it in a hex editor...

Thanks for the reply,

Legomaniac

 

[Legomaniac]

GOT IT TO WORK!!!

I edited the hex file just to change the drive letter, so it didn't change the filesize, so that worked fine.

As far as getting it to launch zinc, I just moved zinc to the directory path that was listed in the .dll file, and it worked fine!!

I used HxD for the hex editor, which is freely available on download.com.

I think the latest directory structure for zinc is different from the one that was out when this plugin was made. All that I had to do was put all of the files and folders in zinc's main directory into one more sub-directory called zviewer.

Hope this helps you man! PM me if you can't get it to work.

Woohoo!

 

[Atreides]

Hey, way to go, that is really smart. I never thought to move the Zinc file to the one in the dll. durp! Thanks for the advice and time you spent working on it.

 

[Dale#1976]

I just stumbled across Zinc in the last month and been running it as a stand alone. This Zinc plug-in is just what I've been looking for but I can't find it in the Plug-in section of the MP site.

Is the zinc plug-in no longer available? Is it available somewhere else?

Thank you!!

Dale

 

[vii]

I managed that in a different way.
My OS is Windows 2008 R2 and I have a customized directory structure. After Zinc installation I have zv.exe in D:\prog86\ZeeVee\Zinc. However plugin is looking for it in "C:\Program Files\ZeeVee\zv\zViewer".
I created ZeeVee\zv folders in C:\Program Files and then created directory junction zViewer pointing to D:\prog86\ZeeVee\Zinc as follows
mklink /j zViewer D:\prog86\ZeeVee\Zinc
So that allows to start zinc from MP regardless where zinc is installed.

However I faced another issue.
My TV is confugured in Windows as a secondary monitor. MP has a wise setting specifying on which monitor MP should be started. Sure I am starting it on my TV. However zinc does not have a setting for that. I would appreciate if anyone can give me an idea what to do or suggests a workaround.
Sure I can configure my TV to be a primary monitor and then it works but that ruins the whole idea to have computer available while someone is whatching MP on TV.

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Never mind I got it working. If you start Zinc (just in a regular way, not from MP) and move its window manually to another screen then next time it starts on this screen.

Now I am fighting another problem.

Some videos work fine but others popping up with an error that Adobe Flash Player is not there. I belive it ralates to the issue that Adobe Flash Player is available in 32 bit edition only but somehow some sources (e.g. ABC) are trying to locate a 64-bit one.
Does anyone know what can be done about that?