THE DNP100 DRAKE NETWORK PLAYER
RECOMMENDED SETTINGS
When creating and distributing original content for custom purposes by way of Digital Signage, there
are as many unique uses, as their are unique users, as their are unique pieces of hardware intro-
duced along the way for each unique operator’s system. All the way down from DSM to the DNP100
to the many different types of televisions and monitors. In general, each of these pieces has its own
settings and standards which must be met in order for everything to run properly and smoothly, how-
ever, most manufacturers attempt to meet certain industry-wide standards, and the settings that we
are recommending in this Chapter represent what we feel a large majority of appliances have been
designed to work well within. In the odd chance that your monitor or device does not respond as ex-
pected to the DNP100 or its associated content, please contact DRAKE SERVICE at 937-746-6990.
However, most of the settings recommended will have only one other option, so you may wish to
attempt that other setting
fi
rst.
DSM - MONITOR AND VIDEO OUTPUT
On the DSM MAIN Window, in the TOOLS Tab, select SET VIDEO OUTPUT. This opens the
SET VIDEO OUTPUT Window. For the very best HD Video Picture quality, we recommend
setting the DNP100 VIDEO OUTPUT to one of the following (depending on you TV / monitor):
HDMI_1080i60
HDMI_1080p60
HDMI_1080i59
HDMI_1080p59
In order to have the most accurate representation of LAYOUTS on your PC monitor while
working in DSM, we recommend setting the BROWSER RESOLUTION to:
1366
x
768
PC - YOUR FIREWALL
FIREWALL ISSUES
The Drake Digital DNP Series Digital Signage Manager (DSM) uses HTTP protocol when
downloading
fi
les to the DNP100 Drake Network Player. If DSM fails to download
fi
les to the
DNP100, a PC
fi
rewall (or a
fi
rewall in the router) may be blocking this operation, when con-
necting DSM to the DNP100 through a local network. Virus protection programs may block
this operation also.
UNBLOCKING THE COMPUTER FIREWALL
When
DSM
is
fi
rst being installed, you will be prompted to unblock the
fi
rewall for the
software.
Please
ACCEPT TO UNBLOCK
(this does not pose much of security issue
due to the fact that you are only unblocking the DSM application as opposed to the
whole
PC
and
it will only download video
fi
les that you have speci
fi
ed).
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