Specifications

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Player and System Status

8. Player and System Status

The Status menu gives you access to information about the player and the system.

Player status

System status

Conditional Play Status

TV & Radio Status (If TV hardware is present)

8.1 Player status

The Player Status page provides details about what the iCOMPEL is playing now, and what content has been played

recently. These pages automatically refresh as new content is played.

In particular, the data on CPU usage can show which media item (or combination of items) is causing excessive load on the

CPU. To determine which media is causing a spike in CPU usage, see the Zone CPU usage graphs to determine which

Zones are using the most CPU. It may not be a single item of media that causes a high CPU load, but instead a

combination of different items, being displayed at the same time.

An indicator on the Home page shows the average of the total CPU load over the last 60 seconds. Samples are taken every

second, and represent an average over the preceding second. If there is an average of 90% or more CPU usage over the last

60 seconds, a warning message is shown on the Home page.

Playing now

The Playing Now tab page displays a CPU usage graph for each Zone. These, along with the CPU Load graph can be

used to determine which media, or combination of media, is causing a high overall CPU load.

Played recently

The Played Recently tab displays a list of recently displayed Layouts, and also recently implemented Advance To

commands.

Screen Snapshot

The Screen Snapshot page displays a Snapshot of the main Screen display. This can be refreshed periodically as

required, although very frequent refreshing is not recommended since it may result in a temporary loss of quality in the

currently playing media.

NOTE: If a video is playing, then a dark blue or black rectangle may be shown on the snapshot in place of the video.

CPU Load

The CPU Load page shows a graph of processor load. This graph takes about 10 seconds to complete.

Values of 90% and above imply that the processor is heavily loaded and video may not be playing smoothly as a result.

You may wish to change the media type, or change the order of items in Zones, to avoid CPU overload.

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