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MBOX EXTREME
®
MEDIA SERVER USER MANUAL
CONTENT MANAGEMENT
Overview
The Mbox Extreme Media Server offers a flexible media folder structure. Media can reside locally on the Mbox
Extreme server hard-drive or on additional hard-drives or storage devices connected to the computer. However, using
external devices is not recommended because playback performance will suffer. The v3 server hardware includes four
internal hard-drives. One drive is used for the OS (the computer boots from it), while the other three drives are striped
as RAID-0 and are used for content.
At startup, the Mbox Extreme application performs a media scan to search all folders that reside within the
/Mbox/
Media
and
Mbox/Models
folders on the boot drive of the Mbox Extreme server. External media can be attached to
these folders through aliases. Aliases must link to folders on the supplemental media, they cannot be aliased to files.
An alias cannot refer to another alias. The main
/Mbox
,
/Mbox/Media
, and
/Mbox/Models
folders must reside on the boot drive and cannot be aliases.
Each time the Mbox Extreme Media Server completes a media scan, a text file is created with all media files found
and their corresponding combined file numbers. This text file can be found at
/Mbox/Media_Report.txt
Note:
The initial media scan allows for the locations of files to be resolved at startup, therefore the "distance" of a file
from the main folder has no effect on the time required to find a file. In addition, the content in the Media folder is
allowed to be nested (folders within folders) to a limit of 64 folders deep.
Folder and File Numbering
Content files are located within the
/Mbox/Media
or
/Mbox/Models
folders
on the Mbox Extreme computer’s hard-drive array and are arranged in
individual "Library" folders. Each folder name must begin with a 3-digit
index value. In turn, each file within the Library folder must be named using
a 3-digit index value between 000 to 255 as a prefix. Two control channels
on the console will be used to select a Library folder and the numbered file
within that folder.
Library folders within the Media folder must have a number prefix and can
have a descriptive name separated from the number by a period or a
space. For example:
025.Central Park
or
025 Central Park
Files within each library folder must have a numerical prefix, can have a descriptive name if desired, and must have a
three-letter file extension. Each of these parts should be separated by a period:
001.Great Lawn.jpg
or
001.jpg
Video and still image files may be numbered between 000 and 255 and placed in folders numbered 001 - 254. Models
and digital gobos may be numbered between 000 and 255 and placed in folders numbered 001 - 255.
Folder 000 in both the Media and Models folders is reserved and should not be used.
You will find the stock PRG video and still images in Media folders 001 - 038 and 248 - 254. Media folder 255 is
reserved for video inputs and layer copy functionality. You will find the stock PRG 3D objects, animated gobos, and
digital gobo files in Model folders 001 - 006.
001.videos
001.rain.mov
002.drops.jpg
etc.
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