Alcorn Mcbride Digital Video Machine HD, User Manual

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Getting Started 7
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example, to get the current firmware version, type “ version” and press “ Enter.”
The UDP Tester program sends a request to your Information Station and returns
the version string. Next, type “ 1se” and press “ Enter.” Then type “ pl” and press
“ Enter.” The Information Station arrives from the factory with a “ video #1” on
it for your use. You have just searched and played it. If you connected your
NTSC or PAL monitor and speakers to the Information Station, you should be
seeing and hearing the video now. See the Ethernet Control section for a list of
commands.
Make an MPEG File
MPEG2 video is pretty complicated. If you’ ve never encoded it before, we
recommend hiring an encoding house to do it. You can buy your own encoding
system, but don’ t be cheap. The last thing you want is to find out the encoding
system you purchased has a bug that causes the video to glitch, audio to drift,
pixelation, etc… The encoding house uses their equipment to optimize the
parameters and filtering of your video to achieve the best possible result. If you
want to make your own, our customers have had positive results with the LSX
MPEG Encoder by Ligos and Optibase’ s hardware-based encoder. Darim’ s
DVMPEG is a good encoding solution along with PixelTools’ Multiplexer.
There is a section below this introduction describing production in more detail.
Make a WMVHD File
There are a variety of tools available to create WMVHD video. You can learn
more about it at
http://www.wmvhd.com/
Load Videos
You can also use File Transfer Protocol (FTP). FTP is a way of copying files
over an Ethernet Cable (like the special red one that came with your Information
Station). Use
AMITerm
to launch an Internet Explorer browser in
FTP
mode.
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Or Digital Media Manager to handle FTP transfers seamlessly for you. See
its tutorials for details). Set the Target IP address to the Information Station’ s
IP address (192.168.0.254 unless you changed it), and press the FTP button.
Then select and copy your files while in Windows Explorer and paste them into
the VIDEOS folder of your FTP connection.
If you configured your computer for the web interface as listed in the
Networking section of this manual, you’ re already able to use the Information
Station’ s FTP interface. You can use any FTP program you like to talk to the
Information Station’ s FTP interface. We frequently use WS FTP (shareware),
Cute FTP (shareware), and even the DOS FTP (which comes on most PC’ s).