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The dCine logs many aspects of its operations. The Logging option allows you to configure where

log files will be stored on the hard drive and how often they will be deleted. As an example:

<Media>

<File>

<Filename>..\log\Media_</Filename>

</File>

</Media>

<File>

</File>

</Operations>

</Logging>

Logging is an important feature. Apart from keeping track of when media is played, it also keeps

track of many low level events. Such a feature is important when trying to work out bugs or the

causes of other issues or problems that may relate to operator error, communication failure, etc.

The d-Cine creates two types of log files – the Media log and the Operation log. The <Media> log

keeps track of when media files are played. The <Operations> log keeps track of low level data

used for debugging and GUI interface operations tracking (i.e. what button was pressed by an

operator and when.) The Media and Operations log files can be turned off but typically should not

be.

The XML configurations outlined above are self explanatory. What follows is a description of the

Media and Operations log options.

<Enable> : Enable is used to turn on/off the logging feature. Default: YES

<Filename> : The Filename option contains the file name, including path, to the relevant log file.

The default setting for this option is “..\log\LogType_”. This setting indicates where the log

files should be created, based on the location of the MediaPlayer.exe executable. The “..”

indicates that support engineers can find the log file by moving into the parent directory above the

directory where MediaPlayer.exe lives (usually the bin directory), then clicking into the

“log” directory. A file is created called “logtype_XXXXXXXX.log” where XXXXXXXX is

the current date added to the end of the ”LogType_” filename.