How slow is your laptop? I’ve had pretty good results putting windows 7 on again xp laptops and it breathes a nice new life into them. Give it a go, im sure itll fix the character encoding issues. If not, it was probably time for a reinstall of xp anyway, right?

Thanks for your reply.

I am using winXP. I cannot upgrade to Windows 7 as my laptop is too slow.

I also doubt is the language capability. It could be something wrong with the PPStream itself.

You can try typing a chinese movie/show title in notepad or ms word and save it. Then you open up the document again and copy and paste to ppstream search box and see if it works at your side.

Thank you very much.

/jonie

Old versions of windows are still quite picky about characters though – are you using Win98 or XP by any chance? Might be time to upgrade to Windows 7, which is a *lot* more internationally compatible.

Perhaps if you could send a screenshot of where youre copying it from and what it looks like when you paste??

Thanks for your heads up on ppstream.

I can search for a particular tv series or movie if i type in chinese character manually, but

I cannot copy the title of movie from somewhere and paste it in ppstream search…it will appear with all “????”…may i know how can i go about it?

Thanks.

It showed the update in %, and i could search for titles once again after it reached 100%.

Thanks for the help =)

Thanks for the help =)

1. They regularly change the access levels for various streams, so it may be that you have to log in. Check that you are fully registered and logged in before searching. The same thing happens to me when searching for tv shows. Also, the auto-login feature doesnt always work.

2. Update to the latest version from the PPSTREAM.tv website.

3. Check with a movie you know is definately there – open up the list of movies, look through for one you fancy the look of. Copy and paste the kanji characters for that movie into the search box – if it comes up with a result, it means the movie you are looking for probabaly isnt on there because search is working fine – if you cant even get a result for the movie you KNOW is there, then it means the search function has been altered somehow (not unusual for ppstream) and you’ll have to find the movies some other way or wait for it to be fixed. In the latter case, I suggest you search on the website instead of via the app, then just watch using their player on full screen…

Hope one those steps helps you!

However now when i paste the keywords in, the list below doesn’t reveal the channels which air the show. Nothing happens. And if i click on the search icon, it’ll load the web browser.