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User Guide for Cisco Digital Media Player Device Manager 1.0
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Chapter 1 Introduction
Basic DMS Concepts and Vocabulary
DMM
Cisco Digital Media Manager
is the collective name to describe the Web-based graphical user interfaces that
are preinstalled on DMM
appliance
s:
•
DMM-Admin —
Digital Media Manager – Administration Module
. Any
DMS
operator can use
DMM-Admin to install or upgrade the software licenses to activate DMM-DSM or DMM-VPM.
•
DMM-DSM —
Digital Media Manager – Digital Signage Module
.
Digital signage
content managers use
DMM-DSM to centrally manage a network of
DMP
devices, organize and bind together the elements for
signage, and deliver content to any number of
DMP display
s.
•
DMM-VPM —
Digital Media Manager – Desktop Video Module
. Video content authors use DMM-VPM to
add, organize, manage, publish, and archive content on
Video Portal
appliances or other end devices; assign
metadata and keywords; schedule immediate and future deployments to Video Portal appliances or other
end devices; preview content; manage approval workflow and configure interoperation with
ACNS
; create
and manage playlists, tickers, messages, and interstitials; and customize the Video Portal “look and feel.”
DMP
Cisco Digital Media Player 4300G
. Compact “set-top box” device hardware that delivers digital signage
content to the one
DMP display
that is directly attached.
DMPDM
is preinstalled on every DMP.
DMP
display
Any television screen or other kind of monitor that is attached directly to a
DMP
and that shows
digital signage
content to an audience.
DMP group In DMM-DSM, a DMP group is an organizational and administrative convenience that helps you to manage any
number of DMP devices as quickly and easily as you would manage one DMP. No physical, logical, or
topological relationship among the DMPs in a group is assumed unless you organize your DMPs consistently.
By registering your DMPs in DMM-DSM and organizing them into groups (by location, display type, or on any
other basis), you can act quickly to activate new settings for, or deliver updated content to, multiple devices
simultaneously.
DMPDM
Digital Media Player Device Manager
. Web-based graphical user interface, served from a
DMP
, that you use
to configure the DMP device during its initial setup or to manage the DMP device in isolation, as an alternative
to using the centralized management features in
DMM-DSM
.
DMS
Cisco Digital Media System
is the name of the product family that consists of
DMM
appliance
s,
Video Portal
appliance
s,
DMP
s, and all of their associated software components.
encoder
Cisco Digital Media Encoder
1000 or 2000.
MCS
Cisco Media Convergence Server
7825-H2 or 7835-H1 chassis on which
DMS
software is preinstalled.
metadata
Metadata
is a formalized, hierarchical, and logical grammar to describe particular attributes of information,
such as its context or purpose. In
DMS
, you can enter metadata attributes for the video and
digital signage
content offerings that you create. For example, you might use metadata to track when and where you recorded
a particular video stream, who speaks in the video, and to what topics it pertains. When you use metadata, your
information becomes searchable and retrievable in new ways.
planes
When you use
DMPDM
, the attached
DMP display
represenents video content and HTML content on two
separate, virtual
planes
, each of which has a potential on-screen size of up to 4096 x 4096 pixels. The video
content plane is always opaque and behind the HTML content plane, for which you can change amount of
transparency. The two planes can overlap and you will see the video content plane
through
the HTML content
pane if both of the following are true:
•
You show video content and HTML content simultaneously.
•
The HTML content plane touches any of the same
x
-axis and
y
-axis coordinates that the video content
plane touches.
Table 1-2
Concepts and Vocabulary
Term
Definition