EventGhost and Zoomplayer

[Sir_Ned]

G'day folks. Trying to use EventGhost and Zoomplayer together with a Firefly remote. It will start up ZP but that is as far as it goes. Any time I press a button on the remote EG receives the command but then comes up with an error message in the log. It says
Zoom Player: FastrForward
ZoomPlayer.NoConnection
Zoomplayer.Close

Have tried a variety of settings but have no real idea what I am doing. But cannot find out where it is going wrong for me.

Thanks in advance for the suggestions. I have uninstalled and reinstalled both programmes as well, including the Firefly drivers.

[jinxdone]

Are you sure you have enabled zoom player's TCP control interface?

You can find the settings in zoom player 5.x: right click -> options (make sure you are in advanced mode) -> System -> Enable External TCP Control (port) XXXX

Make sure you got the matching TCP port set up in both zoom player and in the EG zoom player plugin.

[Sir_Ned]

Are you sure you have enabled zoom player's TCP control interface?

You can find the settings in zoom player 5.x: right click -> options (make sure you are in advanced mode) -> System -> Enable External TCP Control (port) XXXX

Make sure you got the matching TCP port set up in both zoom player and in the EG zoom player plugin.

OK Have that checked in ZP but can you tell me where it hides in EG? Looking for it now but if you can point me in the right direction just in case I don't find it.. Thanks again

Sokay I found it but they are both checked and still no go. Any other ideas?

[jinxdone]

Ok, i'll just paste my settings here:

In EventGhost / Zoom player plugin configure window:

TCP/IP host: localhost
TCP/IP port: 4769
"Use new events" checkbox is unchecked


In Zoom Player 5.00:

Options (advanced mode) -> System:
Enable External TCP Control (port): 4769 (checkbox is also checked)


Assuming these are set up in this manner that should be set up ok. If you are still having problems you probably have a firewall or something else that is blocking EG from connecting to zoom player. To start debugging it:


When you have zoom player running "netstat -a -n -b" should show zoom player binded and listening for connections on the port you set, example from my setup:

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  TCP    0.0.0.0:4769           0.0.0.0:0              LISTENING       1848
  [zplayer.exe]

Also you can try telnetting to that port, when you connect it should give you some output like:

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0000 Zoom Player WMV Professional
0001 5.00
1300 1
1000 1
1800 C:\some.avi

When you press play on zoom player it should give you some more info on the telnet window like this:

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1200 Play
1000 3
1201 0
1100 00:01 / 01:00
1100 00:02 / 01:00
1100 00:03 / 01:00
1100 00:04 / 01:00

If you get this sort of info everything should be working fine in zoom player's end. If you are still having problems it must be because EG can't connect for some reason, I'd suggest double checking your firewalls and such so that nothing is blocking it.

[Sir_Ned]

Pardon My Lack of knowledge. (doing a search now) Ho do I use telnet to do this? I know how to open it up from a command prompt but what command do I put in so that it only looks at that port? The way I am doing it now ir brings up a heap of them.

[jinxdone]

The command is "telnet localhost 4769".

If you just execute "telnet" you get the telnet command prompt and there: "open localhost 4769 <enter>" if you try the "help" command it will give info on what you can do in that prompt.

If you want to use a better program to do the same thing I really recommend PuTTY, it's a free, lightweight terminal app.

[Sir_Ned]

Thanks heaps for that. It was the localhost bit that I was leaving out. Shall give it a try later and see how it goes.

[CollinR]

localhost will only work if EG and ZP are both installed on the same system, otherwise you'll need to specify.

[Sir_Ned]

Yep they are both on the same system. For some reason I was not able to get emails at the same time. I had rebooted the computer a few times and also tried without firewall running to no avail. However after one of the multiple restarts it all started working again. Damn Computers So after all that assistance It works.

Thanks heaps folks.