As everyone by now knows, ZAAPTV has been acting up lately, dropped channels, channels disappearing and reappearing, ones that completely vanished, and many other problems, that made us all quite upset about the service.
But like they say good news awaits those who wait ;)
I received an email from ZAAPTV themselves, I was quite shocked to be honest with you, and in that communique they delivered to me some good and optimistic news. They did indeed run into problems with the increase in demand of their product, and they are very well aware of the problems people are facing, and working very diligently to restore these channels back. In the meantime they were able to add a few new channels ( I can vouch for that..) to compensate for those that disappeared, and inshallah they are hoping to get everything settled before Ramadan.
I know, I know.. Ramadan?! That's almost four months away !!
We have all been waiting too long for these fixes, and this was not the time frame everyone wanted to hear, but to be fair, it's quite overwhelming what they are working on, and finally we got an answer directly from ZAAPTV.
So if you are loosing channels or channels are acting up, please hold on emailing them and flooding their inbox's, unless you have a legitimate issue with your POD.
Let me know what you think, and if you have any problems let us know maybe I and other users on this blog might be able to help.
Salam.
Sunday, April 15, 2012
Sunday, April 1, 2012
A working example of how to add channels.
Ok, so many posts are asking how do you add channels, many people are not able to do that. So I decided to walk you through adding a real life working channel and access it through your POD.
The channel we will work with is from NASA Tv. As you will notice it's format is *.asx. As most of you know or will find out is that ZAAPTV POD requires a *.wmv file. The *.asx file is a pointer file (metadata) that points to the actual media file. I don't want to get into much details about that, but the bottom line is that this file points to a windows media file, therefore will suffice the requirement of ZAAPTV of being a *.wmv.
First of all you must register your POD, if you have not yet go to : https://myzaaptv.zaaptv.com/member/register.php and register your POD.
Now sign in to MyZaaptv at: https://myzaaptv.zaaptv.com/ .
Once in, you will see four orange buttons on the right. Click on "Add New Channel". The Add Channel page will open up. So far so good.
Now input the following information:
Add in Category: Select "Demo" from the pull down menu.
Channel URL: copy and paste the following URL:
http://www.nasa.gov/145590main_Digital_Media.asx
Channel Name: "NASA TV"
Country: Select "United States" from the drop menu.
Description: Type in "This is a working demo of a live tv, compliments of Masrawy ;)" (It will not work without this description…lol).
Who can see this? Select "Only Me".
Click on Save, a new page should open up titled "NASA TV", and informing you that you have successfully added a new channel, and will even show you a preview of the channel under Channel Video.
That's it you are done. Now we want to see the fruits of our labor.
Go to your POD's Main Menu, select MyTv, select My Channels, Select Demo and you should see your new channel called NASA TV in the lineup. Select it and enjoy it.
You can change any of the information I just gave aforementioned, so experiment and see what happens. If you create new links, let us know so we can add them and enjoy them too.
Salam
P.S: One question I am sure I will get is where I got that URL for the video from? Simply I googled it and found it in a forum for NASA. To actually go through a web page and find the URL of a stream is a very technical issue, and I will not go into actually explaining how it's done on this blog. There are many resources online for doing that. I just don't want to deviate away from the goal of this blog.
Another thing is the format of the files, I have not experimented with anything else yet. I just used what they asked for, just for the sake of getting this post ready. If someone has experimented with other formats and are sure they work please let us know.
The channel we will work with is from NASA Tv. As you will notice it's format is *.asx. As most of you know or will find out is that ZAAPTV POD requires a *.wmv file. The *.asx file is a pointer file (metadata) that points to the actual media file. I don't want to get into much details about that, but the bottom line is that this file points to a windows media file, therefore will suffice the requirement of ZAAPTV of being a *.wmv.
First of all you must register your POD, if you have not yet go to : https://myzaaptv.zaaptv.com/member/register.php and register your POD.
Now sign in to MyZaaptv at: https://myzaaptv.zaaptv.com/ .
Once in, you will see four orange buttons on the right. Click on "Add New Channel". The Add Channel page will open up. So far so good.
Now input the following information:
Add in Category: Select "Demo" from the pull down menu.
Channel URL: copy and paste the following URL:
http://www.nasa.gov/145590main_Digital_Media.asx
Channel Name: "NASA TV"
Country: Select "United States" from the drop menu.
Description: Type in "This is a working demo of a live tv, compliments of Masrawy ;)" (It will not work without this description…lol).
Who can see this? Select "Only Me".
Click on Save, a new page should open up titled "NASA TV", and informing you that you have successfully added a new channel, and will even show you a preview of the channel under Channel Video.
That's it you are done. Now we want to see the fruits of our labor.
Go to your POD's Main Menu, select MyTv, select My Channels, Select Demo and you should see your new channel called NASA TV in the lineup. Select it and enjoy it.
You can change any of the information I just gave aforementioned, so experiment and see what happens. If you create new links, let us know so we can add them and enjoy them too.
Salam
P.S: One question I am sure I will get is where I got that URL for the video from? Simply I googled it and found it in a forum for NASA. To actually go through a web page and find the URL of a stream is a very technical issue, and I will not go into actually explaining how it's done on this blog. There are many resources online for doing that. I just don't want to deviate away from the goal of this blog.
Another thing is the format of the files, I have not experimented with anything else yet. I just used what they asked for, just for the sake of getting this post ready. If someone has experimented with other formats and are sure they work please let us know.
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