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Chapter 1
MSO Pro Utility ..........................................................4
1.1
1.2
1.3
1.4
1.5
Minimum System Requirement ............................................5
MSO Pro Installation* ...........................................................5
Starting the MSO Pro ...........................................................8
Media Creation, Scheduling, Distribution Workflow..............9
Client Management ............................................................11
Group Creation ...................................................................12
Group Deletion ...................................................................13
Client Creation....................................................................13
Client Deletion ....................................................................14
Client Configuration ............................................................14
Media Management............................................................15
Playback Management.......................................................25
Layout Template.................................................................25
Playlist ................................................................................29
Schedule.............................................................................32
Menu Buttons .....................................................................34
Configuration ......................................................................34
Export .................................................................................35
Transfer ..............................................................................36
Exit .....................................................................................37
Add Media Buttons .............................................................37
Add Playback Setting Buttons ............................................37
Get Playing Log ..................................................................38
Check IIS ............................................................................39
1.5.1
1.5.2
1.5.3
1.5.4
1.5.5
1.6
1.7
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1.7.2
1.7.3
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1.8.3
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1.8.5
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Index
Chapter 1
MSO Pro Utility
Client/Group Management
Media Collection
Schedule Setting
Play List Edition
Program Configuration
Appendix A How to Get Codec Information.................................40
Appendix B Video Editing Tutorial ...............................................43
Appendix C How to Change Message and RSS Language ........51
Appendix D Windows IIS Install and Setup .................................62
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Minimum System Requirement
To install the MSO Pro, the minimum requirements are:
♦ OS: Windows XP/2000
♦ System Requirement: Pentium III 1GHz or better, 128 MB RAM
or better
♦ Window Media Player 9 or later
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1. Load the MSO Pro Setup from CD-ROM into your computer.
2. If you have installed earlier version of MSO Pro, please uninstall before
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you continue the following steps* .
3. Double click the “setup.exe” icon and the setup utility will start with the
welcome screen, click “Next” button to continue.
4. The setup utility will choose a default folder to install the MSO files.
Click “Browse” to browse to the folder you would like to install MSO Pro.
Click “Next” to continue installation process.
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The default software language is English and no other language
available in the moment.
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Please remove MSO Pro from Control Panel if you cannot uninstall MSO
Pro successfully from Start menu.
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5. The MSO Pro utility is now installed. Click the “Close” button to
complete the installation.
The factory setting for every Network Player Pro is listed below.
Factory LAN Setting
IP mode
DHCP
IP port
80, 8008*
Server IP (the IP that player connects
to automatically)
127.0.0.1 (loopback)
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If your PC is behind a firewall, please make sure port 80, 8008 are open
or set firewall exceptions.
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Network Player Pro connects to the server actively; therefore, you will
need to either change the IP that player connects to or configure the IP
address of your PC to establish communication channel.
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Network Architecture & Related Setting
Server on LAN with Router’s Virtual Server Function
Please refer to the following figures for more complex settings via routers.
Network Architecture & Related Setting
serverPC with
MSO software installed
Server on WAN with a Public Fixed IP
Private LAN
IP(Fixed)=192.168.10.188
Player
Private IP(DHCP/Fixed):
192.168.0.128
serverPC with
MSO software installed
Public WAN:
IP(FIXED)=220.128.0.22
Router A
Internet
Private LAN IP(Fixed)
=192.168.0.1
Gateway(Very Important)
=Router A’s LAN
IP(Fixed)For
example:192.168.0.1
Public WAN:
IP(DHCP\Fixed)
=220.130.150.216
Server IP(Fixed)
=Server PC’s Public IP
=220.128.0.22
Player
Private IP(DHCP/Fixed):
192.168.0.128
Router A
Router B
Private LAN
IP=192.168.10.1
Private LAN IP(Fixed)
=192.168.0.1
Gateway(Very Important)
=Router A’s LAN
IP(Fixed)For
example:192.168.0.1
Public WAN:
IP(FIXED)=220.128.0.22
Open the virtual server:
Forward
Port 8001 -> Server’PC’s
IP(192.168.10.188):8001
Port 8002 -> Server’PC’s
IP(192.168.10.188):8002
Port 8003 -> Server’PC’s
IP(192.168.10.188):8003
Public WAN:
IP(DHCP\Fixed)
=220.130.150.216
Server IP(Fixed)
=Server PC’s Public IP
=220.128.0.22
Internet
After the configuration of server IP, you can use a crossover cable or a
hub to connect client and server.
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Starting the MSO Pro
1. Click MSO Pro icon on your desktop.
2. If this is the first time you start the MSO Pro, a pop-up window will
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guide you to set up your own password.*
3. Enter your password in the Password column.
4. Click the “OK” button to start MSO Pro.
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The password should not contain special characters. We strongly
suggest you select a password consisting of uppercase and lowercase
letters, numbers, and special characters.
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There are 3 major sections in MSO Pro:
Client Management
Media Database
Playback Management
MSO Pro remains great flexibility to allow users work on each task
independently and also be able to share resources between different
groups. Basically, schedule is a component that combines all tasks and
transfers them to selected network players. The workflow of MSO Pro is
listed below.
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MSO Pro Content
Distribution Workflow
Tips: you may need to install .NET Framework
and IIS before running MSO PRO. Please execute
the .NET Framework executable file from manual
CD. Please refer to Appendix D for IIS setup.
Group
Media
Layout
Playlist
Media Creation, Scheduling, Distribution Workflow
Before you start operating MSO Pro, you should know general naming
convention that we use in this document.
Schedule
General rule of naming convention:
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Transfer
No space between any object name, such as group, client, template,
schedule…etc.
No special character allowed, such as ~!@#$%^&*()...etc.
Network Player
Working area of MSO Pro
Network Player
Example 1: hierarchical structure in a shopping center
Upper
Pane
Left
Pane
Lower
Pane
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Network Player
Layout of building:
1st Floor: Entry, Food & Toys
2nd Floor: Women’s Fashion, Men's Fashion
Customer would like:
Place a 32” Network Player in the Entry to welcome
customers and inform them about news and events
Play daily and seasonal promotions in the food court
Play cartoon, new games and toys Ad in Toys department
Play individual fashion shows in Men’s and Women’s
department, with information about brand and style
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Layout of Shopping Center
1st Floor
2nd Floor
entry
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Men’s Fashion
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Food
Women’s Fashion
Toys
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stairs
stairs
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In order to apply the hierarchical structure of a shopping center, you will
need to create Groups under the Event: Entry, Food, Toys, Women and
assign players to each group. You will also need to create different layout
template for according to what you will display in Network Player.
Depends on display zones of the layout, you can add different media files
into the playlist. In the last step, you can define create a schedule and
include each components and then transfer this schedule to your players.
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Group Creation
Right Click on the “Client Management” tag to bring up group adding
window or click the “Add Group” button and a default group name
“NewFolder” will be assigned as the group name.
To change the name of a group, click on the name of the group until it
is highlighted. Click again, the name will become an editable text box.
Enter the new desired group name, and press “Enter” on your
keyboard. The new group name will be saved.
Client Management
In MSO Pro, every client must belong to a group; therefore, you need to
create a group for client assignment.
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Group Deletion
Right click on the group name tag of the group you would like to
delete.
This will bring up the group deleting window.
Click on “Remove Group” from the pop-up tag.
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Client Deletion
Highlight the client you would like to delete, and then click the
“Remove Player” button to confirm deletion.
Client Creation
Click the “Add Players” button from the upper panel under “Client
Management” tab.
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Client Configuration
In Client Management section, on the bottom panel you are able to view
and change client settings, including Group, Name, Playing Log Reserved
Days, Server IP, Reboot and Restart settings.
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If there are clients already connect to server, you can highlight one
Online Players on the left, and choose a group in Group Target on
the right, then click the “Select” button to add the client to the group.
Enter client name then click the “OK” button to complete client
addition.
If you are done adding clients, then click “Exit” to go back to main
menu.
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Group
You can choose a group from the drop-down menu and assign a
client to the group, click the “Set” button to save settings.
Name
You can change the name of a client my entering the new name,
and click the “Set” button to save settings.
Playing Log Reserved Days
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You can change the number of days you want your playing log to
reserve the playing log, click the “Set” button to save settings.
You can click the “Transferring Log” button to get client playing log
report.
Server IP
You can change the server IP (the IP that client will connect to
automatically).
You can click the “Client Restart” button to restart the client
immediately.
You can click the “Client Reboot” button to reboot the client
immediately.
You can click the “Delete All Content” button to send command to
a client and delete all content in its internal storage.
You can click the “Time Sync” button synchronize the time between
client and server.
Auto Reboot Enable
The network player will do system check when booting up, so you
can setup auto reboot time for client to clean up unnecessary
system file everyday.
You can set the time to have the client auto reboot.
Check the “Auto ReBoot Enable” option to enable auto reboot.
Click the “Set” button to save settings.
Auto Restart Enable
You can set the time to have the client auto restart.
Check the “Auto ReStart Enable” option to enable auto restart.
Click the “Set” button to save settings.
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Click the “Add” button.
Click the “Choose Video” button and browse to the video files you
would like to add.
Click “Open”, and then click “Save” to confirm file addition.
Tips: MSO Pro can only rotate pictures and
messages. If you choose portrait mode layout,
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you might also need to use 3 party software for
video rotation. Please refer to Appendix B Video
Editing Tutorial for more detail.
Tips: All video file should contain audio track,
otherwise MSO Pro will not allow the file addition
to the database.
Video Deletion
1. Highlight the video you would like to delete.
2. Click the “Remove” button to confirm deletion.
Flash ( Click the Flash tag on the left panel to go to the Flash section)
Media Management
Media Management is a place where you can manage all media files,
including video, picture, and message.
Video (Click the Video tag on the left panel to go to Video section)
Flash Addition
1. Click the “Add” button.
2. Click the “Choose Flash” button and browse to the flash files you
would like to add.
3. Click “Open”, and then click “Save” to confirm file addition.
Flash Deletion
1. Highlight the flash you would like to delete.
2. Click the “Delete” button to confirm deletion.
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The Landscape Video and Portrait Video areas are only for you to
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Portrait Video creation.
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Animated Picture (Click on the Picture tag on the left panel to go to the
Picture section)
This picture mode will allow you to have dynamic settings to your
pictures with special effect (Differs from traditional static picture
mode)
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5.1
Animated Picture Addition
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Click the “Add” button, and a picture adding window will appear.
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The Special Effect drop down menu lets you choose the specific
special effect option.
For Special Effect “1”.
In “Step 1” tab
4.1
You can change the Picture name at the “Bookmark” box.
4.2
“H-position” is the horizontal position of the upper left corner
of your picture relative to the entire picture frame.
4.3
“V-position” is the vertical position of the upper left corner of
your picture relative to the entire picture frame.
4.4
“Width” is the total width of the picture relative to the entire
picture frame.
4.5
“Height” is the total height of the picture relative to the entire
picture frame.
4.6
“Duration” is the time of the effect in milliseconds.
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You can change the background color of the entire picture
frame by clicking on “Choose Color”.
5.2
You can change the overlay image over the entire picture
frame by clicking on “Choose File”.
5.3
The “On/Off” option below “Overlay Image” controls if
overlay is applied (true) or not (false).
5.4
You can change the background image over the entire picture
frame by clicking on “Choose File”.
5.5
The “On/Off” option below “Background Image” controls if
background is applied (true) or not (false).
In “Step3” tab, you can add pictures and individual effects to each
one.
You can try other special effect if you like.
Animated Picture Editing
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Click the “Edit” button to change any previous setting with special
effect.
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In “Step 3” tab
2.1
Click the “Add” button to add the desired picture that is
moved and resized with the options in Step 1.
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After a file is added, it will appear as an item in the list below.
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The “Special Effect” column on the left of the “File Name” is
a drop-down menu that can change the different transition
types of the picture, when appearing in the picture frame.
You can try other special effect if you like.
Animated Picture Deletion
1. Highlight the picture you would like to delete, and then click the “X”
button to confirm deletion.
Picture Addition
1. Click the “Add” button.
2. Click the “Choose Picture” button and browse to the picture files you
would like to add.
3. Click “Open”, and then click “Save” to confirm file addition.
Picture Deletion
1. Highlight the static picture you would like to delete.
2. Click the “Delete” button to confirm deletion.
Message
Message Addition
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Click the “Add” button and a text adding window will appear.
Picture (Click on the Static Picture tag on the left panel to go to the Static
Picture section)
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The “Special Effect” drop-down menu changes the way message
appears.
In “Step 1” tab
3.1
You can change the name of the message by typing in the
box to the right of “Bookmark”.
3.2
“Background transition” controls if background setting
appears (true) or not (false).
3.3
“Speed” (right below “Background transition”) controls the
speed of background transition in milliseconds.
3.4
“Color List” controls the color of background. You can type
as little as one color (or the color code), or as many colors as
you want, and the background will change from first to last by
the specified time.
3.5
“Speed” (right below “Font transition”) controls the speed of
font transition in milliseconds.
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“Choose Color” button.
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Under the “Message text” with a text box, is where the
desired message should be inputted.
Click the “Save” button confirms all the setting for the message box.
You can try other special effect if you like.
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Message Edit*
1. Highlight the string you would like to edit, and then click the “Edit
String” button to follow the editing procedure.
Message Deletion
1. Highlight the message you would like to delete, and then click the
“Delete” button to confirm deletion.
HTML(Click on the HTML tag on the left panel to go to the HTML section)
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“Message speed” controls the speed of message appearing
in the message box.
4.2
“Message direction” controls the direction of how message
appears in the message box.
4.3
“Alignment” controls where the message appear with respect
to the message box.
4.4
“Font” can be changed by clicking on “Choose Font” button.
4.5
“Line spacing” controls how many lines of spaces are in
between lines of messages.
4.6
“Background Image” can be selected for the message box
by clicking on “Choose File” button.
4.7
“On/Off” controls if the “Background Image” appears(True)
or not (Off).
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HTML Addition
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Click the “Add” button, and a HTML adding window will appear.
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RSS feed is added by inserting the URL of RSS feed into “RSS
URL” option in “Step 1” tab.
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Click the “Save” button to confirm settings.
RSS Deletion
1. Highlight the RSS item you would like to delete, and then click the
“Delete” button to confirm deletion.
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“Bookmark” is the name of the HTML item.
Select “Local” enables adding HTML file from storage (Harddrive,
CF card, and etc)
3.1
“Html File” can be added by clicking the “Choose file” button
3.2
“Another Related File” is a file that is bundled with the html
page ( such as picture files).
Select “Remote” allows HTML pages to be loaded over network
4.1
“URL” is the internet location where the webpage is located.
(Such as http://www.google.com)
HTML Deletion
1. Highlight the html item you would like to delete, and then click the
“Delete” button to confirm deletion.
RSS (Click on the RSS tag on the left panel to go to the RSS section)
PowerPoint (Click on the RSS tag on the left panel to go to the RSS
section)
1. Click the “Add” button, and a PPT adding window will appear.
2. Choose the PowerPoint file you would like to add. This will take a
moment for the system to convert it into image files.
3. You can then define the special effect of image files.
4. In “Step 1” tab
4.1
You can change the name of the message by typing in the
box to the right of “Bookmark”.
4.2
“H-position” is the horizontal position of the upper left corner
of your picture relative to the entire picture frame.
4.3
“V-position” is the vertical position of the upper left corner of
your picture relative to the entire picture frame.
4.4
“Width” is the total width of the picture relative to the entire
picture frame.
4.5
“Height” is the total height of the picture relative to the entire
picture frame.
4.6
“Duration” is the time of the effect in milliseconds.
5. In “Step 2” tab
5.1
You can change the background color of the entire picture
frame by clicking on “Choose Color”.
5.2
The “On/Off” option below “Overlay Image” controls if overlay
is applied (true) or not (false).
5.3
You can change the background image over the entire picture
frame by clicking on “Choose File”.
5.4
You can change the overlay image over the entire picture
frame by clicking on “Choose File”.
5.5
The “On/Off” option below “Background Image” controls if
background is applied (true) or not (false).
RSS Addition
1
Click the “Add” button, and a RSS adding window will appear.
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The RSS adding window will be similar to the Message adding
window for the Message Section (Read Message Addition for detail).
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In “Step 3” tab, you can view all converted PowerPoint slides and add
special effects to each one.
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Click the “Add” button and the following Template Editor window will
appear.
Layout Template
In MSO Pro, users are able to create their own layout design.
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At the top, the drop-down window labeled “View as
landscape” allows you to create a template layout for portrait
view or landscape view.
2.2
Screen H/V Rate lets you control the screen ratio from the
common screen ratios (i.e. 4:3, 16:9).
2.3
“Load Template” allows you to choose from sample layouts
that are preprogrammed.
2.4
Enter the desired layout name at “Template Name” and click
“Save” to confirm name.
2.5
Checking the “Background Image Path” option allows you to
select a background image from your own storage (i.e. your
picture stored on hard drive).
2.6
Checking the “Background Pure Color” option allows you to
choose a pure color to be applied as background to your
layout.
2.7
The “X”, “Y”, “W”, “H” fields are the coordinate information of
a selected zone.
Use preprogrammed sample template:
3.1
You can load the Sample Prearranged Template by clicking
on the “Load Template” button at the top of the window, and
the following window will appear.
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At the center of the “Load Layout” window shows the
preview of each layout selection.
3.3
Use the “Layout Template” drop-down menu to choose from
programmed sample layouts.
3.4
Click “OK” to confirm selection.
Create your own layout
4.1
Click on the “Add Zone” button to add zones where you want
your picture, video, rss, webpage, and etc, to be displayed.
4.2
A default zone size will appear in the center of the picture
frame.
4.3
Drag the corners or sides of the zone from the red dots to
resize the zone.
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Click and drag from the center of zone to move the zone
around in the picture frame.
4.5
Click the “Add Zone” again if you wish to add another zone
where images, videos, etc, can be displayed in the picture
frame.
4.6
Click the “Save” button to the right of template name, or the
“Save” button at the top of Layout Editor to confirm Setting.
Layout Template Deletion
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Highlighted the Layout item that you wish to delete.
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Click the “Delete” button at the top to confirm deletion.
Layout Template Editing
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Highlighted the Layout item that you wish to edit.
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Click the “Edit” button at the top to confirm editing.
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Playlist
Playlist is a place where you can define media files playback, including
video, picture, message, and etc, in a specific layout.
Note: You have to create a layout before you can create a playlist.
Playlist Creation
1. Click the “Add” button to add a new playlist, and the following window
will appear.
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Enter playlist name at “Template Name” at the top of the window
then choose layout template for which you want to create a playlist for.
Click the “Save” button to finish playlist item creation (You can add
the actual files that you want to play in playlist after this step).
Highlight the playlist item that you would like to add files to.
At the bottom panel you will see the tools for which you can add files
to playlist much like the following. (May differ with different layout
selection).
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13. To edit file playback behavior, highlight an item in the play list on the
left, then go the “File Attribute”
14. “Video Attribue” Tab controls loop, duration, volume, and etc for
each file.
15. “Zone Sync” allows you to synchronize the playback behavior in
one zone with other zone in the playlist. (one is master, others
are slave).
16. On the right, “Layout Preview” allows you to view the playback
behavior as you edit.
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At the top of bottom panel, you have tab selection for each zone in
your layout.
Go to the Zone tab that you wish to add playlist for.
Click the “+” button to add files to the playlist after which you will see
the following window appear.
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Schedule
Schedule is a place where you can define playback schedule and also
setup playlist for this schedule
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At the top left, you will see tabs of types of media files that you can
add. (They are the same files that you add to the Media Database).
10. Click the “Select” button to add files to playlist.
11. After adding the desired media files to the playlist, click “Save” to
confirm playlist.
12. After playlist is constructed, you can further control the behavior of
playlist playback for each file at the “File Attribute” of the bottom
pane.
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Highlight the Playlist you created that you want to add, and click the
“Select” button to add to target.
9. You can check the days of week you want your playlist to playback.
10. You can also uncheck the days of week you do not want your playlist
to playback.
11. To remove a playlist from target, highlight the playlist and click ““ right above the Target list.
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Click the “+” button from “Schedule Template” to add schedule item
and a window will appear.
Type the schedule name, and select a “Valid Date” for this schedule.
The schedule will not be initiated until the “Valid Date”.
On the right, the “TimeSlot” template, shows the time for which the
schedule will playback.
When a schedule item is added, the TimeSlot is set to default.
Menu Buttons
These are the buttons at the top of the MSO Pro window, and the
functions of each are described below.
1.8.1
Configuration
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Clicking the “Configuration” button brings up the following window
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There are 4 tabs at the top for different set of configurations: “Web
Server Root Path”, “Account”, “Performance” , and “Software
Update”.
2.1
“Web Server Root Path” sets the path for which the server is
loaded.
2.2
“Account” manages the password for each user.
2.3
“Performance”
2.4
“Software Update” allows you to change setting for auto
software update or manual.
Click the “+” or “-“button to change the TimeSlot
setting.
On the bottom panel, you can now add the playlist you want your
schedule to playback.
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1.8.2 Export
1.8.3 Transfer
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Clicking the “Export” button brings up the following window
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Clicking the “Transfer” button brings up the following window
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Highlight the Group to which you want to transfer settings to.
Highlight the Schedule to which you want to transfer settings to.
Click the “Add” button to add transfer to transfer list.
Before transfer is started, you can remove transfer settings that you
did not want to transfer.
After confirming the list of “Transferring List”, Click “Transfer” to
start transferring.
From the top drop-down menu, select which Schedule item that you
created to export.
“Destination Path” is where the schedule item is save.
Click “Export” to export schedule
Click “Exit” to return to main window.
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1.8.7 Get Playing Log
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Clicking the “Exit” button will exit MSO Pro.
1
Click on the “Get Playing Log” button will bring up the following
window.
2
Enter the Start Date and the End Date for which period of time you
want to acquire playing log of.
Choose where the save log will be saved to at “Save To”. You can
browse destination by clicking “…” button.
Select which group you want to get playlist from by clicking the
“Add” button. Select which playlist you want the log of in the Playlist
tab.
Highlight the Playlist and click the “Select” button to move to target
list.
Click the “Save” button to confirm selection.
You can add more playlist.
Clickt the “Query All” button to get the playlist log save to the
chosen destination.
1.8.5 Add Media Buttons
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Click on the corresponding types of media buttons to add media.
1.8.6 Add Playback Setting Buttons
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4
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Click on the corresponding buttons to add settings.
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1.8.8 Check IIS
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Click the “Check IIS” button will make program check the Internet
Information Services setting for the system.
The program will return IIS setting status.
APPENDIX
1
How to Get Codec
Information
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1. We suggest you download and install the “K-Lite code pack 2.50 Full”
http://www.freefrom
codecs.com/download/K_Lite_Codec_Pack.htm to your PC if
you would like to see the CODEC information of your media file.
2. After successfully install “K-Lite code pack 2.50 Full” application.
Please open the “GSpot Codec Information” application from Starts>Programs->K-Lite Codec Pack->Tools->GSpot Codec Information
.
The GSpot dialog will appear. Open the media file that you want to get
codec information from File->Open
The “GSpot” application will display the detail information about the
media file. You can get the audio and video codec information from
“Audio” and “Video” sections.
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1. Goals and Objectives
APENDIX
Video cut by some utilities doesn’t have very good compatibility with
Network Player series. In this document, we will introduce the utility that
has been tested and works well in Network Player series. The methods of
splitter, rotate and encode will be introduced step by step in the following
sections.
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Video Editing Tutorial
B
2. Utility
Before we start, please download the convert utilities “VirtualDub-Mpeg2”,
“VirtualDub” and necessary codec pack: “K-Lite code pack”.
2.1 What is virtualdub?
VirtualDub is a video capture/processing utility for 32-bit Windows
platforms (95/98/ME/NT4/2000/XP), licensed under the GNU General
Public License (GPL). It lacks the editing power of a general-purpose
editor such as Adobe Premiere, but is streamlined for fast linear
operations over video. It has batch-processing capabilities for processing
large numbers of files and can be extended with third-party video
filters. VirtualDub is mainly geared toward processing AVI files, although it
can read (not write) MPEG-1 and also handle sets of BMP images(From
http://www.virtualdub.org/index)
Download utilities
VirtualDub
http://virtualdub.sourceforge.net/
VirtualDub-Mpeg2:
VirtualDub mod with MPEG2 (SVCD, DVD, VOB) import support.
http://www.free-codecs.com/download/VirtualDub-MPEG2.htm
2.2 What is K-Lite code pack?
K-Lite Codec Pack is a collection of codecs and related tools. Codecs are
required to encode and/or decode (play) audio and video. The K-Lite
Codec Pack is designed as a user-friendly solution for playing all your
movie files. With the K-Lite Codec Pack you should be able to play 99% of
all the movies that you download from the interne
Download site : http://www.freecodecs.com/download/K_Lite_Codec_Pack.htm
3. Video Editing
In this section, the split, rotate, and compression will be introduced. Video
splitter can help you split large file into smaller video clips, and you also
could get the part you want. The rotate function could let video rotate 90
degree to right or left, or rotate around by 180 degree. To let the size of
video become smaller and keep its quality, the Mpeg4(xvid) will be used.
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To understand what the codec the media is, you could use the “Gspot
codec information” utility. From “Start->Program->K-Lite codec Pack>Tools->Gspot codec information.”
1. Click “File->Open” to open the video file.
2. Then you could get the codec information about the video file.
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3.3 Rotate the Video
1.
2.
3.
4.
Select “Video->Filters”, and click “Add” button on the Filters dialog.
In “Add Filter” dialog (Pic2), please select “rotate”.
After click “OK” in the “Add Filter” dialog, the “Filter: rotate” dialog
will appear. (Pic3)
According to your need to select the rotate degree.
3.2 Split and Cut Video
1. Execute the VirtualDub or VirtualDub Mpeg2 according to you video
type.
2. Then select “File-> Open video file” to open the video file.
3. Drag the slider below the panes to change the current position
within the video.
4. Drag the slider to start position, then press the
5. Drag the slider to end position, then press the
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to mark end.
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3.4 Compress Video
Video Setting
1.
Please select “Video-> Compression”, and then the “Select video
compression” dialog will appear (Pic4).
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In the list on “Select video compression” dialog, please select
“Xvid MPEG-4 Codec”.
After click Configure button. The “Xvid Configuration” dialog
appears (pic5).
In the Encoding type, there are three types in the selection. We
suggest user select single pass or twopass.
Pass
Size
Single pass
Compress time
quality
Twopass
Small
Shot
General
big
long
good
5.
When select Twopass, it needs to compress the video two times;
Two pass -1st pass and then Two pass 2nd pass.
6.
Set Profile @ Level to Highdef, and Encoding type: to Twopass –
1st pass.
7.
8.
Then please follow the next section to set audio and save the file.
When 1st pass procedure has done, please do 2nd pass by
setting the Encoding type to 2nd pass, then save to avi again.
Pic 5
Audio Setting
1.
Please select “ Audio->Full procession mode” (Pic6) .
2.
Then select “ Audio -> Compression” (Pic7).
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Finally, we are going to create the target file.
1. Please select “File-> Save as AVI…”, and select the path where
the destination file will be put.
2. The Virtualdub will start to compress the video file according to
above setting.
3. You also could see the Status window when Virtualdub
compress the video (Pic9, Pic10)..
<Pic6>
<Pic7>
After that, the “Select audio compression” dialog will appear.
We want use mp3 to our audio codec, so please select MPEG
Layer-3 in the left list.
In the right list, please select “128 kBit/s, 44,100Hz, Stereo
16KB/s”.
Then click “OK” to accept the setting and exit the configuration
dialog
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<Pic9>
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Since Version 1.50 of MSO Pro, it is not only all ANSI based languages,
but also UTF-8 and various other formats.
APPENDIX
1. Settings of Windows
C
How to Change Message
and RSS Language
How to change the support in MSO Pro please follow these steps and set
all to the same Language! Example is with Chinese (Taiwan) (UTF-8)
Step 1: Open The Control Panel with Start Settings Control Panel
Step 2: Open Regional and Language Options and select Languages
Tab
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Step 3: Check if your Language is a Complex Script or Right-to-Left
Language, like East-Asia, Thai, aso
NOTE: Some languages need to be installed by
Windows first, YOU WILL NEED THE Windows
Installation CD (/I386-folder)
Follow the steps of the installer.
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Step 5: Add a input Language and select Keyboard you want to use
Step 4: Select Details
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for RSS and Message
Note: This is the Windows assignment to
support all non-Unicode codepages and
Languages.
After this, the PC has to be rebooted,
otherwise the settings will have no effect.
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Settings for Chinese (Taiwan):
Now follow the normal way to create message or RSS by choosing the
Input language.
Note: Make sure your Language also choose the
right Font for this Language. All Language
settings have to be the same (Example: all
Chinese)
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Examples MSO Pro Settings:
Photo of RSS in Chinese (UTF-8)
Windows IIS Install and
Setup
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Photo of RSS in Arabic (UAE) (UTF-8)
Photo of RSS in Korean(EUR-KR)
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Once install completed, right click on your “My Computer”,choose
“manage”, you will see the IIS is now servicing.
1. Install IIS
Open Control Panel, and choose “Add or Remove Programs”
2. IIS Setup
Choose the “Add/Remove Windows Components” and install it.
Open the MSO PRO path you’ve installed to the windows,right click the
folder “USER”,choose “Sharing and Security”
Select “Web Sharing” tab and add this folder to IIS.
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Set property for folder “User” on IIS.
Set the Directory Security. Enable “Anonymous access” and disable
“Allow IIS to control password”. Disable “Integrated Windows
authentication”.
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Finally, just make sure your IIS port is 80,like this:
3. Pass through Fire Wall
You have to set the fire wall to allow port 80,8008 pass through,
otherwise, player would be unable to connect to MSO Pro and get file.
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