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Display Content Manager Ver1.80 Installation Guide

I-1. Overview of Display Content Manager

Display Content Manager (hereinafter referred to as “DCM”) is special software for expanding the features

of MEDIAEDGE4 (SVS4, STB4H, STB4, SWT4), HDMA-4100 and MEDIAEDGE Decoder (or ME-DEC), to make

them compatible with digital signage (*1).

In video display systems that use Display Content Manager, playlists can be created to display multiple

content items such as videos, still images and tickers on a single monitor, and scheduled playback of these

playlists can then be performed.

*1: It also supports earlier products: MEDIAEDGE3 (SVS3, STB3 DS, SWT3 DS) and

HDMA-4000/HDMA-4000 Sync.

 Flexible layout creation

 Freely lay out multiple regions within the monitor (up to 20 regions).

 You can adjust the size and position of the regions with intuitive mouse operations, or by

entering numerical values.

 Wide variety of content types are available

Type of content

Video

MPEG2 PS、MPEG2 TS、H.264

Audio

WAVE (PCM:8/16/24-bit, 1/2/5.1ch), MP3

Still images

BMP, JPEG, GIF (transparent GIF supported),

PNG (trans parent PNG supported)

Subtitles(Ticker)

TXT, XML (*2)

Flash

SWF (*3)

HTML

Quick Time

QuickTime (*4)

URI

URI to the above content

Control

command

ASCII string (HEX can also be specified) (*5)

Volume

Volume of playback clients (0 to 50 can be specified)

*2: RSS can be registered as URI content.

*3: STB and HDMA support Flash 7 or earlier versions. For SWT, Flash Player must

be installed separately on the computer. ME-DEC is not support Flash content.

*4: QuickTime content is only supported for SWT4 local playback.

*5: Only sending is supported for control commands.

 Playlist creation

 You can create a playlist by combining layouts and content.

 You can perform preview playback of created playlists.

 Schedule creation

 You can create a channel and set a schedule for delivering playlists.

 Playback client registration and schedule updating

 You can link scheduled channels to playback clients to update the playback clients with

schedules and content files.

 You can set so that schedules and content files are updated regularly. You can also update by

manual operation.

 A differential update is performed when updating schedules and content files, so the data