ID-AL Event Video Player EVP380 – Quick Start Guide V1.0
5 Programming the Player
5.1 General Rules
The player is programmed by organizing media files and other files in a
specific way (see the example opposite) on a storage device, which can
be a microSD card, a USB flash drive, or the internal storage. If an
external storage device is chosen, it must initially be formatted using one
of the supported file systems (FAT32 is recommended for common use
cases), after which it can be filled using a computer then plugged into the
player, or first plugged into the player then filled through FTP. The only
means of accessing the internal storage is through FTP (default
username and password:
idalftp
for both). The IP address of the
player is indicated in the menu ( ), under
System settings
→
Network
. It is also possible to identify the player on a network using its
mDNS name
EVP380-
sernum
,
sernum
being the serial number
indicated under
About
in the menu ( ).
The
SYSTEM
folder is dedicated to configuration files and other files used
by the entire system. The usual media files (MP4, MKV, MOV, WAV,
MP3, M4A, OGG, JPG, PNG, BMP, etc.) must be placed into numbered
playback folders located at the root (
0
to
999
, optionally prefixed with
zeroes, used as an identifier for commands), without using subfolders. If
the player needs to follow synchronized playback requests, the media
files to be played when receiving these requests must be numbered and
placed into the
SYNCHRO
folder, without using subfolders.
The playback folders can have an arbitrary working name after their
number. Various directives, called tags, can be added between square
brackets. These tags can be used to control the playback, the volume,
and the output contacts, to send serial frames, or to block commands
from a configurable list of sources. E.g.,
[J1]
instructs the playback engine to jump to folder
1
at the end of the
playback of the folder having this tag. For the complete tag specification, see the quick reference handbook or the
user guide.
The media files inside the playback folders can also have tags. They can be numbered to ease sorting in sequential
playback mode.
5.2 Streaming
In order to play a video or audio stream, a file with the extension
.stream
must be placed into a playback folder
like a regular media file. This file describes the stream and gives its network address. See the quick reference
handbook or the user guide for details.
5.3 Show Control Playback
For the standalone control of a show (i.e. to control the output contacts, to send serial frames, and to send packets
on the DMX512 output during a time frame), a file with the extension
.sc3
containing show data must be placed
into a playback folder like a regular media file. If there is a media file in this folder with the same name apart from
the extension, then both files are played synchronously. Otherwise, the
.sc3
file is played alone. This file can be
generated either with the Show Control Editor software (downloadable from www.id-al.com) on a computer, or by
recording a DMX512 or Art-Net show directly from the player. See 6
5.4 Serial Frames
The serial frames that the system needs to send must be listed in a file named
serial.txt
, which must be
created with a raw text editor on a computer according to a specific syntax, then placed into the
SYSTEM
folder. The
transmission of the serial frames can be programmed using folder or file tags, or
.sc3
files. See the quick
reference handbook or the user guide for details.
5.5 Scheduler
In order to schedule commands, a file named
scheduler.tm2
must be generated on a computer thanks to the
Scheduler software (downloadable from www.id-al.com), then placed into the
SYSTEM
folder.
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