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Adding a new channel:

You can add a new channel to the database by either
Right click on the channel list and select “Add New”.
Or
Click on “Tools” of the menu strip and select “Customize User List”. Then click on “Add New” button.

You should see a window prompting you to key in the channel details. You are strongly encouraged to send us this new channel information so that this channel can be shared with all others using this software.
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*Please note that the URL field does not refer to the website with embedded video. Take for example, when you visit the website "http://www.readontech.com/embedded.html" with your internet browser, you will see an embedded TV streaming on the page. However, the actual streaming URL is "http://www.enferpousser.com/channels/test.asx". To check for the actual URL to add, you can try to right click on the streaming video, select properties on the context menu and the actual URL can be found under the location field. Some websites does not allow you to right click and access to the context menu. You will have to read the HTML code of the page in order to extract out the streaming URL. The discussion of extracting streaming URL from HTML code is beyond the scope of this reference guide.

FlashVars stands for "Flash Variables" which is only used by Flash channels. FlashVars consists of the variable names and their value. For example, if the FlashVars has the following:

variable name VR1 with value equal to VL1

and

variable name VR2 with value equal to VL2

Your FlashVars should be written as: VR1=VL1&VR2=VL2

Each flash variable should be separated by the ampersand(&) sign and the value is immediately after the variable with the equal(=) sign.



Removing channel:

To remove a channel from the favorites list, select the channel from the list and press the “Delete” key. You can also right click and select “Delete Favorite”.

To remove a customized channel, go to “Tools” of the menu strip and select “Customize User List”. Next, select the channel you wish to remove and then click on “Delete” button.


  
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