& User’s Guide Alcorn McBride Inc.
Document Revision 2.3 September 2005 Copyright 1996-2005 Alcorn McBride Inc. All rights reserved. Information Station and the other product line names are trademarks of Alcorn McBride Inc. Windows is a trademark of the Microsoft Corporation. Sony and Pioneer are trademarks of their respective owners. Every effort has been made to assure the accuracy of the information contained in this manual, and the reliability of the hardware and software. Errors sometimes can go undetected, however.
Contents Welcome! ................................................................................ 1 Features ....................................................................................................................... 2 Technical Support......................................................................................................... 3 Getting Started ....................................................................... 5 Check the POWER Setting ........................................
File Names.............................................................................23 Test Files.....................................................................................................................24 Making Videos.......................................................................27 Making an WMVHD File..............................................................................................27 What Is An MPG File? ..................................................................
Playlists................................................................................. 53 Digital Media Manager................................................................................................ 53 Playlist Engines .......................................................................................................... 56 Auto Execution ........................................................................................................... 56 Extra Commands..............................
Welcome Welcome! Thank you for purchasing The Alcorn McBride Information Station. We have tried to think of everything you need in a multi-media playback system that can be used as anything from a simple video player to an advertising display complete with dynamic update of video, watermarks, and text. Note this manual refers to Information Station but also applies to the Information Station HD, except where noted. We hope you enjoy using it as much as we enjoyed designing it.
Features The Information Station offers a wide range of features including: • Video type: • The IS plays high resolution MPEG-2 Video.
Welcome Technical Support You can obtain information about specifying, installing, configuring, updating and programming your Alcorn McBride Information Station from several sources in the table below. For… Welcome! Contact… When?… Telephone Support (407) 296-5800 M-F 9am–6pm (EST) Fax Support (407) 296-5801 M-F 9am-6pm (EST) Knowledge Base http://www.alcorn.com/kb Any Time e-mail Support support@alcorn.com Any Time Software/Firmware Updates http://www.alcorn.
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Getting Started Check the POWER Setting Front Panel Don’t plug in your unit until you have verified it is set for your region of the world’s standard power setting. US and Canada – 120V, Europe and Australia 240V. There’s a red slide switch on the rear of the unit that determines this setting. Digital Media Manager We have made available for the IS and ISHD a powerful GUI application that runs on Windows XP called Digital Media Manager.
Live Control - AMITerm AMITerm is a standalone GUI for controlling the IS and ISHD serially and over Ethernet. You can even browse to the Information Station’ s web server and download a copy of the version shipped with the unit, or download the latest version online at http://www.alcorn.com/support/software.html Look for AMI Terminal Play a Factory File The Information Station boots up and plays a video, banner, and image via an autoexec playlist.
Make an MPEG File MPEG2 video is pretty complicated. If you’ ve never encoded it before, we recommend hiring an encoding house to do it. You can buy your own encoding system, but don’ t be cheap. The last thing you want is to find out the encoding system you purchased has a bug that causes the video to glitch, audio to drift, pixelation, etc… The encoding house uses their equipment to optimize the parameters and filtering of your video to achieve the best possible result.
If you don’ t know how to use FTP programs to put the files on your Information Station, there are plenty of tutorials on the web. Just visit your favorite search engine and type in “ FTP tutorial” . Also see the Transferring Files section in the manual. A basic guide to using DOS FTP follows. Use FTP First, connect an Ethernet cable from the IS to your network or a NULL Ethernet cable directly from your IS to your PC.
Front Panel Option 2: DOS FTP DOS FTP usually comes on your PC, which is why we provide this guide. If using the DOS FTP program doesn’ t work out for you, download from the Internet an FTP program (like WS_FTP or Cute FTP). They handle all the commands for you and provide an interface with more of a Windows feel to it. Select Start\Run Type command in Win98/ME or cmd in WinXP/NT/2000. Press Enter. A DOS prompt will appear.
Change directories by typing cd . Press Enter. Type ftp 192.168.0.254. Press Enter. (assuming your IP address is still at the default value) (The following steps assume the factory set username and password.) Type admin. Press Enter. If it doesn’ t ask you for the username for longer than 30 seconds, something’ s probably wrong. Recheck your TCP/IP settings with in the Networking Your Information Station section. Type password..
Return to the VIDEOS directory. To get a status update during a file transfer, type ha. Press Enter. With this “ hash marks” option turned on, FTP prints an update character (the # symbol) to show you the transfer is still in progress. Type bin to make the FTP connection a binary one. The Information Station provides a “ type set to binary” response. To copy file 2 from the Information Station to your hard drive, type get vid00002.mpg. Press Enter. (It starts printing hash marks.
To copy playlist 0 to the Information Station from your hard drive, first change directories to the PLAYLISTS directory, then type put ply00000.lst. Press Enter. When the FTP> prompt is shown again, you know the transfer is complete. Type ls. Press Enter. Playlist 0 is now shown on the Information Station’ s hard drive (not shown—see above). To exit DOS FTP, type quit. Press Enter. To exit DOS, type exit and press Enter. Take it from here.
IS The Information Station provides a power switch in the bottom right. To manually reboot the machine, hold in the oval-shaped power button until the unit turns off. It should take several seconds at longest. ISHD The Information Station HD provides two LED’ s on the front to let you know when power is on and when the hard drive is being accessed.
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Rear Panel The Information Station rear panel provides connections for video and audio outputs as well as an Ethernet jack and power cable connection. Power Connector Composite Video Connector(IS only) One RCA-type jack is provided. Connect your RCA cable here. This outputs an interlaced signal. It is for use with NTSC/PAL monitors, RF modulators that have termination, plasmas... S-Video (Y-C) Connector (IS only) One S-Video jack is provided. Connect your S-video (Y-C) cable here.
Audio Output IS: One 8th inch stereo phono jack is provided. Connect your audio cable here. ISHD: Three 8th inch stereo phono jacks are provided. Connect your three 8th inch phono-to-RCA-jack adapter cables (included) to these. The audio jacks come configured as being able to output up to 6 channel surround sound through the three stereo pairs. They dynamically determine how many jacks you have plugged in and output 2 or more channels accordingly. Please see the diagram below.
Networking Connecting via Ethernet The Information Station is shipped with a factory default IP address of 192.168.0.254, which is useful for transferring video across an Ethernet LAN, but must be changed if the Information Station is to be connected to a router on the Internet. This IP address represents the official test IP address. The Information Station is configured with default TCP/IP settings. These setting are the IP address, the login name, and the login password.
18 1. Plug one end of a “ Null-Ethernet” cable into the Ethernet port on the rear of the Information Station. 2. Plug the other end of the “ Null-Ethernet” cable into the Ethernet port on your computer. 3. Using Windows 95, 98, NT, or XP, right-click on the Network Neighborhood icon and select Properties. If you are not using Windows or you do not have TCP/IP Networking installed on your computer, please consult your computer’ s documentation for further instructions on Network Configuration. 4.
9. Once your computer has finished rebooting, launch a Web Browser (Netscape, Internet Explorer, etc.). 10. In the address box, type “ http://” followed by the IP address of your Information Station. If this is your first time connecting to your Information Station, or you have not changed the IP address, the correct entry should be: http://192.168.0.254 11. Upon hitting the Enter key on your keyboard, you should be presented with the introductory web page from your Information Station.
1. Connect one end of a 10/100 Base-T Ethernet cable to the Ethernet connector on the Information Station. 2. Connect the other end of the Ethernet cable to your network hub. 3. On your computer, launch a Web Browser (Netscape, Internet Explorer, etc.). 4. In the address box, type “ http://” followed by the IP address of your Information Station. Upon hitting the Enter key on your keyboard, you will be presented with the introductory web page from your Information Station.
Update Operating System Alcorn McBride periodically adds enhancements to its products. The Operating System (OS) updates can be downloaded to your Information Station to add new features if you wish. The Information Station retains two copies of its Operating System: the Current version and the Previous version. This allows you to switch between the versions if you wish to.
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File Names Prefix Extension Format VID .MPG, WMV Video files SND .MP3, WAV, .MID, .WMF Audio files BAN .BAN, .TXT Text Banners IMG .BMP Bitmap Images PLY .LST Playlists SCH .SCL, .TXT Schedules BRO .SWF, .HTM, .HTML Browser files FTP .CMD FTP Client scripts File Names All media file types can be searched by their file name, using the double quotes notation discussed in the control section(s). You search banners and images in the same way you search videos and playlists.
Any type of file may be stored in the Information Station, but only those listed in the table may be played. Although any file may be copied from or to the internal drive in the Information Station, only the above-described file formats and file names may be played back. This allows archiving of ANY information on the drive: CAD drawings, spreadsheets, documentation, etc. To avoid confusion, don’t duplicate file numbers.
speed1080.wmv – WMVHD video 1080p surroundTest.wmv – WMVHD video 1080p – good for testing Surround Sound Wiring AUDIO Directory: snd00001.wav snd00002.mp3 snd00003.wma snd00004.mid BANNERS Directory: Text files you can search to practice using a banner on the Information Station. Ban00001.txt (or .ban for later units) Ban00002.txt (or .ban for later units) Ban00003.txt (or .ban for later units) File Names Ban00004.txt (or .
Schedule file listing example commands for the scheduler in the Information Station. sch00001.txt (or .scl for later units) WEB Directory: Flash and HTML files demonstrating how the IS treats flash files. bro00001.swf bro00002.
Making Videos Making an WMVHD File Only the ISHD can play WMVHD files. WMVHD is a compressed video format. There are a variety of tools and formats for encoding WMVHD. You can learn more about it at http://www.wmvhd.com/ What Is An MPG File? The Information Station plays MPG files that contain digital video encoded in high-resolution by an algorithm known as “ MPEG-2” . Many encoding systems produce MPG files, but not all MPG files may be played on the Information Station.
The quality of encoded video depends upon the quality of the source video, the encoding system used, and the skill of the operator. 28 Although encoding your own video is very cost effective and surprisingly straightforward, only an experienced individual can create the highest-quality MPEG. Video material encoded without regard to bleeding colors and motion artifacts will include them, so it is important for the user to decide whether these elements are acceptable.
The MPEG-2 Program Stream The Information Station plays MPEG-2 Program Streams. This stream is a Variable or Constant bitrate stream containing both audio and video. In order to achieve playback of video only, you must encode an elementary stream of silent audio that will be combined with your elementary video stream to create a program stream. A program stream is not the same as a DVD VOB file. The Information Station does not play VOB files.
Audio Files Types Audio Files Information Station can play MP3’ s, WAV’ s, MIDI files and WMA’ s (Windows proprietary audio compression format). Choose which type(s) you like, record them and copy them into the AUDIO folder. There is a separate audio channel that can play simultaneously while video is playing. Its channel number is 2. Search and play files according to the Ethernet Control section in order to use this channel.
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Images There is a separate image channel that you can use to search images while video is playing. Its channel number is 3. Search and play files according to the Ethernet Control section in order to use this channel. Size The supported image format is .BMP. Later versions of the firmware support .JPG and .GIF. Create RGB 24bit bitmaps for best results. Be aware of this when you are creating your images. Copy your images into the IMAGES folder.
Transparency You can make your whole image 50% transparent, allowing some of the video to shine through and creating an overlay effect. See the Command Summary section for turning on and off this feature. (Note: at the time of the writing of this version of the manual, this functionality varies in some versions of the firmware. It either shows translucency as described above, transparent alpha channel (255,255,255) or neither. Be sure to get the latest version for the most current mode.
Banners There is a separate image channel that you can use to search banners while video is playing. Its channel number is 4. Search and play files according to the Ethernet Control section in order to use this channel. Information Station has a special format for the banner files, much like INI files you’ ll find on your PC.
All the fields above besides [BANNER] are not required. You change only the ones you want to and the rest will stay the same as they were previously. Example 1: [BANNER] BT=Use our easy examples to get started. BC=8982a7 BF=Times New Roman BD=RL BL=B BV=0 BM=0 BB=0 BS=24 Example 2: [BANNER] BT=Let’ s only change a couple of things here.
Browser Files – URLs and Flash There is built-in browser support in the Information Station. You can direct the video output to Flash files and HTML files that are resident on the Information Station in the WEB folder. Or you can direct the browser to a URL, such as www.alcorn.com, which can be useful when the URL is continually getting updated with the latest and greatest information while the Information Station is running canned video presentations.
Flexibility of the Browser Commands Since URL’ s can lead to .html, .htm, .asp, .com, .org, etc… they can be anyone of way too many extensions for the Information Station to keep up with. If you search any URL not on the Information Station, you must use the channel number in the command. This tells the Information Station it is OK to pass the URL along to the browser. Example: This is correct: “ http://www.alcorn.com” 5PL This is wrong: “ http://www.alcorn.com” PL If you are searching .swf, .htm, and .
Command Summary Screen Layouts in Manual Mode (ISHD Only) In Version 1.05 01/30/05 we added manual screen layout commands to allow you to map your video in one location, your banner somewhere, your browser somewhere, and your image somewhere. Imagine creating your own layout tailored to fit your message of the hour, and then changing the layout again at the next moment to keep the presentation visually appealing. Here are a few example layouts, but the limit of choices is up to your imagination.
Examples: 3*5XYVL locates the video window’s top, left corner shifted three pixels to the right and 5 pixels down. 300*400WHVL sets the width to 300 & height to 400. When all four values X,Y,W,H are zero, the unit is back in the default, automatic mode, where the video window is full screen, the image is rotating around the four corners of the screen, the banner is located along the top or bottom, and the browser takes over the full screen when used. You can also do Percentages.
[@]c?C [@]?P [@]cPL string n n R upon receipt Pause [@]cPA R Still [@]cST R Stop [@]cRJ R Search by file number [@]ncSE [@]nncSE [@]nnncSE [@]nnnncSE [@]nnnnncSE [@]”” SE R [@]cLP R PlayNext [@]ncPN R upon receipt LoopNext [@]ncLN R System Command Access All [@]mSC [@]AA R R [@]nnn.
42 Set Longitude [@]nLG R Set Latitude [@]nLA R Set Time [@]mTI R Set Date [@]mDA R Set Daylight Saving Time Support On/Off Set Daylight Saving Time Type [@]nSD R [@]nnnDT R Set Scheduler Bootup Delay [@]nDB R Set Scheduler Activity Logging [@]nSL R Get IP Address Get Gateway Address Get Subnet Mask Request Get Username [@]IP [@]GW Get Device ID Get Time Zone Get Longitud
[@]SL n n= 1 updating schedulerlog.
Banner Text [@]mBT R Banner Direction Left Banner Direct.
[@]www*hhhXYVL R [@]www*hhhXYIL R [@]www*hhhXYBL R [@]www*hhhXYOL R Layouts by Screen Percentage [@]www%hhhXYVL R For all above Manual Screen Commands, replace asterisk in string with percentage to layout screen in terms of 0 to 100 percent. xxx, yyy, www, and hhh are put in terms of percentage.
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Command Serial Control Summary Serial Control – RS-232 The unit may be controlled using serial RS-232 (9600 baud rate, 8 data bits, No Parity, and 1 Stop bit -- 9600 8N1) messages via the 9-pin serial port located on the back panel of the machine. The protocol is ASCII-based, and many commands are similar on structure to Pioneer Disc protocol. Upper or lower case characters can be used interchangeably in most cases. Please see the Command Summary section for a table of commands.
Control up to 127 Information Stations at once over a standard Ethernet network! Ethernet Control Ethernet Control Please see the Command Summary section for a table of commands. Note this section does NOT require the carriage return listed in the protocol summary. Now you can use a powerful subset of commands from the Pioneer/AMI serial protocol to control multiple Information Stations at once that are connected to a standard Ethernet network.
Control Message Format The control source will send a UDP packet that contains an Information Station Control Message as the User Data in the packet. A UDP Control Message is comprised of a few bytes needed specifically for AMINet and some Command bytes. The Command simply needs to contain an Addressed Pioneer / AMI protocol command.
The Checksum in this example is 0x158, but because it is greater than 0xF9, the two byte Checksum is preceded by 0xFF. UDP Message Layer The control source sends UDP Packets to the Information Station. A UDP Packet contains information about the packet source (IP Address, Port number) as well as definable user data. The user data contains the entire UDP Control Message including all AMINet specific bytes. These packets should be sent to the broadcast IP Address (255.255.255.
Playlists provide a mechanism for the Information Station to automatically play a collection of clips in a predefined sequence. Playlists often allow the unit to be used to perform complex functions that would normally require an external controller. Playlists can perform functions as simple as looping a single clip, or as complex as user prompted pacing of the playback. Please see the Serial Command Summary section for a table of commands.
¾ Playlist Builder Playlist Builder is a friendly GUI you can use to create your Playlists. Go to http://www.alcorn.com/support/software.html to download a copy today! You should also read the section below for a tutorial on how the engine works. Here’ s how to operate the interface: Select a Product Type: On the main menu select: Insert, Command Choose your command to insert in the Event Section.
Playlists The Parameters section tailors itself to the specific command’ s needs, instructing you on what to enter in the available parameter fields. For this example, we chose play by filename, so we entered a file name. Note we entered it in quotes, as that is the way the command is normally used. Press OK, and you then see your entry in the playlist. Add more, and save. Then FTP the file to your unit, and play it! There is a discussion on FTP in the first part of this manual.
Playlist Engines Information Station has two built-in playlist engines. You search playlists like you search media files. When you use an engine, you assign it to a media channel. In particular, you can assign one playlist engine to the video channel and one to the audio channel. Commands in the playlists can control all aspects of the Information Station, though. For example, you could have one playlist control audio, video, banners, and images.
Meaning AND All commands AND’ ed together will be implemented in one group. The playlist will go no further until all commands in this group have been completed AFTER[dd:hh:mm:ss] Make the command immediately after this command wait the time defined in the brackets before executing. WAIT Insert this to make the playlist wait on the current group until it has received another play command. < Repeat entire Playlist.
creating a bulky file which burdens the CPU time and causing a disturbance in playback. Example of the filename: playlistlog1_August_09_2004_03PM.txt PlaylistLog1.txt and PlaylistLog2.txt will be kept in PLAYLISTS\LOGS directory, if the INI file has the correct entries. They log the time and date of events and once they reach a maximum file size (.25MB as of OS version .33) it will trim off the first chunk of the playlist file that is larger than the maximum to accommodate the last time being added.
Schedules Scheduler Information Station has a down-to-the-minute scheduler based upon its internal real time clock. According to the time of day and date of year, Information Station can start a video, audio file, banner, image, etc… at 3pm on January 1st 2002, for example. This functionality is built into a feature called the Scheduler. Digital Media Manager We have made available for the IS and ISHD a powerful GUI application that runs on Windows XP called Digital Media Manager.
¾ Schedule Builder Note as of January 2004, we have Schedule Builder, a friendly GUI you can use to create your Schedules. Go to http://www.alcorn.com/support/software.html to download a copy today! You should also read the section below for a tutorial on how the engine works.
Scheduler If you have an end date and time, do the same for those fields. Choose the Event (the command) from the drop down menu.
Type in 1 for the channel, and a filename in quotes, like “ vid00001.mpg” for this example: Type in 2 and select Minutes, so the unit will repeat this command every 2 minutes.
Scheduler Press OK, and here is the resulting event: You can also select Edit:Edit Event to edit this entry with the dialog box or manually edit the events yourself. You can then save the schedule and test it with the built in tester. Select File:Test Schedule. Press the Options button to set your simulation time. With this dialog box, you can set simulation time, start date and time, what to do on errors, etc… . Then press OK and press Run.
File Format / Tutorial The Scheduler uses a text files loaded from the SCHEDULES folder of the Information Station. The text file can be edited in a text editor, like notepad. The autoexec filename is sch00000.txt or sch00000.scl. You can search schedules just like media files. Ex. 39pl searches sch00003.txt to the scheduler channel. A schedule is composed of a list of events. An event is some sort of action that must happen at a given time, whether it is changing to a new video or changing the font.
E:COMMAND 1: An event has a variety of parameters that can be applied to it, in order to customize the Information Station’ s control to your show. In order to understand how you define an event in Information Station, let’ s take this simplest example and build it to the most feature-rich example. An event exists on one line. It is made up of several fields.
Now that we have seen a table of the scheduler fields, let’ s look at the event in Example 1. Here are its fields: Start Time: 1:46pm in the afternoon (13:46 military) Start Date: January 1st 2000. Event: COMMAND event, this is ALWAYS set to COMMAND Field 1, the string, defined as Hello, world!BT , which is the Banner Text command, telling the unit to set its banner’ s text to the string Hello World!. Now let’ s finish up with the remaining fields Example 2: (New fields are in bold.
A set defines a certain range of valid repeat periods. In this example, only the Thursdays in November are eligible for this event. When a set is used in an event, the Repeat Number takes on a different meaning. Instead of being a multiplier of the Repeat Period, it and the Repeat Period become an index of the set. These three fields should be read in conjunction like this: “Repeat this event every 4th Thursday in November.
Examples: D:1.1.00 D:1/1/00 D:1-1-00 D:01.01.2001 D:01/01/2001 D:01-1-2001 ¾ I: End Time The End Time is the hour and minute your event stops being active. See the T: Start Time section for syntax. Examples: I:1:30 I:sunset I: sunrise ¾ A: End Date The End Date is the month, day, and year your event stops being active. See the D: Start Date section for syntax. Examples: D:1.1.00 D:1/1/00 D:1-1-00 D:01.01.
This is the most common usage of the Repeat Number. It acts as a multiplier of the Repeat Period. They should be read in conjunction like this: “Repeat this event every ”. Ex. “ Repeat this event every 30 minutes” . Example: R:1 R:117 Scheduler The repeat number can be anywhere from 1 to over 4billion. You can specify repeating a number of minutes, which is why this is so huge. Realistically though, you would specify repeating in years, if it got that large.
Periods can be one of the following: Sunrise, Sunset Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday Minute Hour Day Year Boot Notes: Month is not a valid period. If you want to make a monthly schedule, use a combination of repeat number, period and set to do so. See the example in the Repeat Number section for details. You can also specify sunrise or sunset.
Examples: R:5 P:day S:month ;repeat 5th day of every month R:2 P:monday S:month ;repeat 2nd Monday of every month th R:4 P:Thursday S:November ;repeat 4 Thursday in November Restrictions Since the Scheduler is very flexible, it is easier to explain what you cannot do, than to explain what you can. When using BOOT as the Repeat Period, the Repeat Number can only be one. The unit does not keep track of the number of times it has rebooted. You can put in other numbers, but it will ignore them. 2.
Order of Operations Here is a listing of times when Information Station checks the schedule and the operations afterwards. 1. 1. 2. 3. 4. a. b. Information Station loads the schedule from sch00000.txt (default) at: Boot up Every night at midnight. Information Station gets today’ s date (or already knows it) from built in RTC. Information Station parses the schedule and loads all of today’ s active events. If it is a bootup that caused the schedule load, the Bootup event gets loaded.
• Double Occupancy - two events in the same slot The following types of events exist in Information Station: One-shots -One time events with no repeat • Loops - Repeating events • Finites - loops that have an end time and end date • Infinites - loops with no end time or end date • Active Event - events with today’s datestamp that have been or will be loaded into the queue • Executable Event - events with the current timeslot • Start Time Bootups - events with start time listed as BOOT • Repe
5. Finites started on a later slot will take precedence over earlier finites. 6. Infinites started on a later slot will take precedence over earlier infinites. 7. If two or more events with the same profile are scheduled for the same start slot, the first one found in the file will be executed. This should only occur as a mistake. Ex. Two one-shots, finite loops, or infinite loops are programmed with the same startslot.
UDP interface, or by holding in the power button. You can also completely automate this process by using the built in FTP Client. See the FTP Client section for details. Logging Scheduler Scheduler logging works exactly like playlist logging for later versions of the os, except it logs its files in SCHEDULES\LOGS. See the playlist logging section for a complete description.
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INI File – is.ini In the MEDIA folder (where you are located by default when you log in via FTP) is is.ini. It has INI settings that you can use to setup default behavior of the unit. Here are the entries and descriptions. Many of these are changed automatically when you send a command to change them via the interfaces. Or you can edit it manually and FTP it to the unit then reboot for the settings to take effect.
Balance=0 Set Left/Right balance. 0=middle, -10000=all left , 10000 = all right side [PLAYLIST1] LogActivity=1 Verbose=1 Set to 1 to Log playlist engine 1 activity Set to 1 to Log playlist engine 1 activity in heavy detail – good for debug [PLAYLIST2] LogActivity=1 Verbose=1 Set to 1 to Log playlist engine 2 activity Set to 1 to Log playlist engine 2 activity in heavy detail – good for debug 78 INI File – is.
Completion Acks The InformationStation sends Completion Acks at the end of playback of video, audio, and playlist files. Completion Acks are the following format: n where n is the corresponding channel. The port (serial or UDP) that plays the playlist or media file gets the completion ack. Here are the rules: Video files selected directly return 1. • Audio files selected directly return 2.
FTP Client As of firmware version 0.39 the unit supports an FTP client that gets initiated by searching a command file to channel 6, as described below. It operates by reading in a text file, which has an FTP script inside of it. The filename convention is ftpxxxxx.cmd. Here’ s an example of one: ftp00003.cmd OPEN www.alcorn.com demoftp@alcorn.com password PUT C:\MEDIA\IMAGES\img00008.bmp img00008.bmp GET vid00150.mpg C:\MEDIA\VIDEOS\vid00105.
Updates from CD, DVD, USB Drives The Information Station has the ability to automatically detect media files located on devices connected to it. You can connect a media device that is natively supported under WinXPE, like a USB key, USB hard drive, Compact Flash adapter, or CD/DVD drive. If you have configured the device and its directories properly, when the unit boots up, it will scan the device, copy new media files to its directories, and continue on with normal operation. Note USB 2.
7. 82 The Information Station will copy any files to its MEDIA directories that do not match files already located in its MEDIA directories. If it finds a match, it compares the date & time stamp and file size. If any of these are different, it overwrites the one on its hard drive with the one from the device.
Specifications Video IS: MPEG-2 (ISO 13818 MP@ML) 704x480, 720x480 NTSC, 30 fps Interlaced 704x576, 720x576 PAL, 25 fps Interlaced 15 Mbps maximum Supports 4:3 and 16:9 Aspect Ratios S-Video DIN connector Composite RCA phono connector ISHD: Please see WMVHD Specifications on encoding at www.WMVHD.
CE: EN 55022 : 1998, CISPR 22, CLASS B, EN 55024 : 1998 IEC 61000-4 FCC: FCC PART 15B, Section 15.107(a) and Section 15.109(a), CLASS B Physical IS (Shelf Unit): 13" W x 16.5" D x 3.6" H (330mm x 420mm x 90mm) 11 lbs 0º to 38º C (32º to 100º F) 0 to 90% relative humidity,s non-condensing ISHD (Rack Mount Chassis): 19" W x 16.1" D x 5.
Index A AMINet ...........................................................................................................................49 AMITerm ......................................................................................................................6, 7 Arp...................................................................................................................................12 Audio..................................................................................................
