HD Network
A Digital Signage Solution
User Guide
2013-04-29
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Страница 2: ...IS PROVIDED AS IS EXCEPT AS REQUIRED BY APPLICABLE LAW NO WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED INCLUDING BUT NOT LITIMED TO THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PAR...
Страница 3: ...back Routine 7 Synchronized Playback 9 Playback on Schedule 11 Usage 14 Turning On and Off 14 Using IR Remote 15 Configuration 16 Local HDD Contents 18 Local HDD Access 19 Preparing Logos 21 Control C...
Страница 4: ...l Center a PC application to control the Presenters on a network Offers to edit the playlist download video clips to a Presenter Allows to view change the configuration of a Presenter Shows the status...
Страница 5: ...l HD 1080p 1920 1080 Progressive playback Support for most advanced video codecs including H 264 Showing text messages in the form of a scrolling text line over the video Showing graphic logos over th...
Страница 6: ...io codecs AC3 DD EAC3 DD DTS MPEG 1 layer 1 2 3 AAC LPCM WMA WMAPro Image files JPEG PNG BMP Notes 1 Some variations of these file formats are not supported 2 In some hardware models DTS decoding is n...
Страница 7: ...eriods Each of these activities is performed according to its own configuration options or not performed at all if demanded by a configuration Playlist Playback Playlist consists of a number of video...
Страница 8: ...ut of the screen then after the specified number of seconds the first message appears The first message of the text is shown concatenated to the last one using the separator if configured Graphic Logo...
Страница 9: ...static image these settings come into effect immediately without waiting for the configured image delay time Synchronized Playback By default each Presenter plays the video clips and or static images...
Страница 10: ...f that group are made aware of its IP address During the first synchronization phase before playing the first item in the playlist the server waits for the specified period of time for other Presenter...
Страница 11: ...t devices having 50 Hz video modes do the speed up by 1 25 of a second for playback of video clips containing 24 frames per second This does not take place with e g the 60 Hz video modes Also the sync...
Страница 12: ...n the scope of a playlist playback activity Other activities just show nothing after the off state has been demanded so if the off moment occurs and the current clip is still playing it will continue...
Страница 13: ...ports the NTP protocol Please refer to Microsoft Windows documentation for details e g http technet microsoft com en us library cc773013 aspx For other Microsoft Windows versions the free NTP server f...
Страница 14: ...e main screen icon thus is not listed in Setup Information as a so called System Storage device See player manual for details on System Storage concept Installing a dedicated System Storage device is...
Страница 15: ...control is received by a proper device Covering an IR receiver of other devices by a piece of carton or the like may help Available Buttons MUTE Turn the sound on off This setting is reset upon switc...
Страница 16: ...ur sample configuration the remote control buttons are locked When the remote control is locked it is possible to exit the Digital Signage mode to the player menu by typing a special sequence of butto...
Страница 17: ...the Digital Signage mode is not performed regardless of the Automatic start setting Automatic start Yes No If set to Yes the Presenter will automatically enter the Digital Signage mode on power on re...
Страница 18: ...s this folder should be created manually before attempting to configure a Presenter The HDNETWORK folder contains the following files and folders clips Folder containing video clips and static images...
Страница 19: ...e folder manager called Navigator with network support The Navigator allows to create delete rename move and copy folders and files on a connected HDD and on a network Please refer to the Dune HD play...
Страница 20: ...on On some player models inserting and ejecting of the HDD rack may be performed only when the power is off e g Dune HD Mini while some other models allow hot swap operation e g Dune HD Center Please...
Страница 21: ...to the converter executable file AAImageGen exe Then next to the source image file a generated file will appear having the same name but a different extension Manually Just start the application It p...
Страница 22: ...ssed in that channel Then it should be checked that the image has only one layer and this layer is the background otherwise the correct behaviour of the converter is not guaranteed To test the convers...
Страница 23: ...ating system it should be checked that the computer has the Java environment of version 1 6 or higher installed e g jre 6u25 windows i586 for Windows The Java environment can be downloaded from the Ja...
Страница 24: ...enter the list of devices should be saved using the menu option File Save Device List This stores the list in the hdnetwork cfg file The device list shows all registered devices their group names and...
Страница 25: ...s in a group described below assign group to a device or devices offering to enter a new group name or choose an existing group and restart a device selected devices or all devices in a group sending...
Страница 26: ...Configuration task the same configuration file is sent to all devices in the group Note Some settings are put into effect when the next video clip is started the Clips Synchronization Misc tabs some...
Страница 27: ...re located on the local HDD of the Presenter in the HDNETWORK clips folder This list is not updated automatically so after changing the set of files on the Presenter s HDD the configuration window has...
Страница 28: ...es the show time for static images on the playlist If checked each image is shown for the specified period after which the next playlist item is activated If not checked each static image is shown for...
Страница 29: ...rearrange messages The right pane allows to edit the message currently selected in the left pane After editing the Apply button saves the changes to the list The entered text may contain multiple line...
Страница 30: ...uously the messages are shown in a cycle without waiting for the last message to scroll out the first message being concatenated to the last one via the separator if any Otherwise the specified delay...
Страница 31: ...ay be turned on The Logo file list shows the files located on the Presenter s local HDD in the HDNETWORK logos folder This list is not updated automatically so after changing the set of files on the P...
Страница 32: ...respective dimension These options specify a min max range the actual value will be a random value in that range for each time a logo appears This may be helpful to prevent screen wearing for some scr...
Страница 33: ...enter will stay in the off state for this day Otherwise the time periods should be specified along with configuration names For the syntax of schedule lines please see the description in this screen s...
Страница 34: ...configuration file syntax for the description of the options meaning Options and their equivalents in the configuration file Show synchronization status after sync_status_info_delay Wait for an IP ad...
Страница 35: ...ttons will be locked during the Digital Signage mode When the buttons are locked the specified sequence of numeric buttons allows to exit the Digital Signage mode Show technical info at start for sec...
Страница 36: ...n in this page is appended to the configuration file Attention No checking is performed for the text entered in this page please use it carefully Normally this page is blank Some options may appear he...
Страница 37: ...our Dune HD Network contract includes such kind of service sending a debug dump to the customer support may reveal the error warning messages of configuration file parsing See the player manual for in...
Страница 38: ...me a sequence of small latin letters and underscores and a value which depends on the option type Value is written after the option name separated with a space A value may be included in double or sin...
Страница 39: ...c configuration is in effect for all other days Named Configuration Options Options described in this section always belong to one of the named configurations either the basic one having an empty name...
Страница 40: ...y the messages are concatenated directly message_vertical_position percentage 0 100 default is 20 Defines the vertical position of the scrolling text stripe 100 being the screen bottom and 0 being the...
Страница 41: ...screen wearing for some screen types A max value should never be less than the respective min value logo_first_show_time seconds decimal 0 default is 10 The number of seconds for which the logo is sho...
Страница 42: ...d time ranges the Presenter is off The schedule_expression is a comma separated list of time ranges each optionally followed by a configuration name in double quotes if omitted the basic configuration...
Страница 43: ...ation mode server based or serverless sync_server_address ip_address default is 0 0 0 0 Setting for server based synchronization mode Defines the IP address of one of the Presenters of the same group...
Страница 44: ...cified sequence of numeric buttons allows to exit the Digital Signage mode Remote Commands There is a special mechanism which allows to remotely send a number of commands to a Presenter working in Dig...
Страница 45: ...dule demands the off state for the current time The playlist includes a completely black static image The synchronized playback mode is on and the Presenter is waiting for synchronization with other P...
Страница 46: ...ormat No Scrolling Text An empty message list is in effect according to the schedule Fully transparent colors are configured for the scrolling text The schedule demands the off state for the current t...
Страница 47: ...buttons are locked See the corresponding section of this manual The Presenter is configured for synchronized playback See the corresponding section of this manual The IR reception is subject to inter...
Страница 48: ...the local HDD Configuration File Problems See the corresponding section of this manual for information on configuration file parsing An option name is misspelled and therefore the line is ignored An...
