Alcorn Mcbride Information Station Podręcznik Użytkownika

& User’s Guide Alcorn McBride Inc.

2 Welcome! Features The Information Station offers a wide range of features including: • Video type: • The IS plays high resolution MPEG-2

Welcome! 3 Welcome Technical Support You can obtain information about specifying, installing, configuring, updating and programming your

4 Welcome!

Getting Started 5 Front Panel Getting Started Check the POWER Setting Don’t plug in your unit until you have verified it is set for your regi

6 Getting Started Live Control - AMITerm AMITerm is a standalone GUI for controlling the IS and ISHD serially and over Ethernet. You can even

Getting Started 7 Front Panel example, to get the current firmware version, type “ version” and press “ Enter.” The UDP Tester program sen

8 Getting Started If you don’ t know how to use FTP programs to put the files on your Information Station, there are plenty of tutorials on th

Getting Started 9 Front Panel Option 2: DOS FTP DOS FTP usually comes on your PC, which is why we provide this guide. If using the DOS FT

10 Getting Started Change directories by typing cd <directory where your videos are>. Press Enter. Type ftp 192.168.0.254. Pre

Getting Started 11 Front Panel To see what’ s on the Information Station’ s drive, type cd VIDEOS and press Enter. Type ls. Press Enter. H

Document Revision 2.3 September 2005 Copyright  1996-2005 Alcorn McBride Inc. All rights reserved. Information Station and the other produc

12 Getting Started To copy playlist 0 to the Information Station from your hard drive, first change directories to the PLAYLISTS directory, t

Front Panel 13 Front Panel Front Panel IS The Information Station provides a power switch in the bottom right. To manually reboot the machi

14 Front Panel

Rear Panel 15 Networking Rear Panel The Information Station rear panel provides connections for video and audio outputs as well as an Ethern

16 Rear Panel Audio Output IS: One 8th inch stereo phono jack is provided. Connect your audio cable here. ISHD: Three 8th inch stereo phono j

Networking 17 Networking Networking The Ethernet connection is a useful tool for transferring video and other files to and from the unit. I

18 Networking 1. Plug one end of a “ Null-Ethernet” cable into the Ethernet port on the rear of the Information Station. 2. Plug the other

Networking 19 Networking 9. Once your computer has finished rebooting, launch a Web Browser (Netscape, Internet Explorer, etc.). 10. In th

20 Networking 1. Connect one end of a 10/100 Base-T Ethernet cable to the Ethernet connector on the Information Station. 2. Connect the oth

Networking 21 Networking Update Operating System Alcorn McBride periodically adds enhancements to its products. The Operating System (OS) u

22 Networking

File Names 23 File Names File Names All media file types can be searched by their file name, using the double quotes notation discussed in t

24 File Names Any type of file may be stored in the Information Station, but only those listed in the table may be played. Although any file

File Names 25 File Names speed1080.wmv – WMVHD video 1080p surroundTest.wmv – WMVHD video 1080p – good for testing Surround Sound Wiring A

26 File Names Schedule file listing example commands for the scheduler in the Information Station. sch00001.txt (or .scl for later units) WEB

Making Videos 27 Making Videos Making Videos Making an WMVHD File Only the ISHD can play WMVHD files. WMVHD is a compressed video format. T

28 Making Videos The quality of encoded video depends upon the quality of the source video, the encoding system used, and the skill of the ope

Making Videos 29 Making Videos The MPEG-2 Program Stream The Information Station plays MPEG-2 Program Streams. This stream is a Variable or

Audio Files 31 Audio Files Audio Files Types Information Station can play MP3’ s, WAV’ s, MIDI files and WMA’ s (Windows proprietary audio c

32 Audio Files

Images 33 Images Images There is a separate image channel that you can use to search images while video is playing. Its channel number is

34 Images Transparency You can make your whole image 50% transparent, allowing some of the video to shine through and creating an overlay ef

Banners 35 Banners Banners There is a separate image channel that you can use to search banners while video is playing. Its channel number i

36 Banners 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 th

Browser Files – URLs and Flash 37 Browser Files Browser Files – URLs and Flash There is built-in browser support in the Information Station.

38 Browser Files – URLs and Flash Flexibility of the Browser Commands Since URL’ s can lead to .html, .htm, .asp, .com, .org, etc… they can b

Screen Layouts in Manual Mode (ISHD Only) 39 Command Summary Screen Layouts in Manual Mode (ISHD Only) In Version 1.05 01/30/05 we added manua

40 Command Summary Examples: 3*5XYVL locates the video window’s top, left corner shifted three pixels to the right and 5 pixels down. 300*400

Command Summary 41 Command Summary string<CR> Current File [<ID>@]c?C<CR> n<CR> c= channel n=file name Current Sta

Contents Welcome! ... 1 Features ...

42 Command Summary Set Longitude [<ID>@]nLG<CR> R<CR> n= longitude ex. 26LG, n26LG, -15LG, s15LG Set Latitude [<ID

Command Summary 43 Command Summary Get Scheduler Activity Logging [<ID>@]SL<CR> n<CR> n= 1 updating schedulerlog.txt n= 0

44 Command Summary Banner Text [<ID>@]mBT<CR> R<CR> Set Banner Text. m=string to send m= string to display Banner Direct

Command Summary 45 Command Summary Video Window Width/Height [<ID>@]www*hhhXYVL<CR> R<CR> www= width of video window hhh

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Serial Control – RS-232 47 Command Summary Serial Control – RS-232 The unit may be controlled using serial RS-232 (9600 baud rate, 8 data bits

Ethernet Control 49 Ethernet Control Ethernet Control Control up to 127 Information Stations at once over a standard Ethernet network! Please

50 Ethernet Control Control Message Format The control source will send a UDP packet that contains an Information Station Control Message as t

Ethernet Control 51 Ethernet Control 0x01 + 0x04 + 0x35 + 0x35 + 0x40 + 0x52 + 0x4A + 0x0D = 0x158. The Checksum in this example is 0x158, b

File Names...23 Test Files...

Playlists 53 Playlists Playlists Playlists provide a mechanism for the Information Station to automatically play a collection of clips in a p

54 Playlists ¾Playlist Builder Playlist Builder is a friendly GUI you can use to create your Playlists. Go to http://www.alcorn.com/support/

Playlists 55 Playlists The Parameters section tailors itself to the specific command’ s needs, instructing you on what to enter in the availa

56 Playlists Playlist Engines Information Station has two built-in playlist engines. You search playlists like you search media files. When

Playlists 57 Playlists Char Meaning AND All commands AND’ ed together will be implemented in one group. The playlist will go no further unt

58 Playlists creating a bulky file which burdens the CPU time and causing a disturbance in playback. Example of the filename: playlistlog1_Au

Schedules 59 Scheduler Schedules Information Station has a down-to-the-minute scheduler based upon its internal real time clock. According t

60 Schedules ¾Schedule Builder Note as of January 2004, we have Schedule Builder, a friendly GUI you can use to create your Schedules. Go to

Schedules 61 Scheduler If you have an end date and time, do the same for those fields. Choose the Event (the command) from the drop down me

Playlists... 53 Digital Media Manager...

62 Schedules Type in 1 for the channel, and a filename in quotes, like “ vid00001.mpg” for this example: Type in 2 and select Minutes, so th

Schedules 63 Scheduler Press OK, and here is the resulting event: You can also select Edit:Edit Event to edit this entry with the dialog b

64 Schedules File Format / Tutorial The Scheduler uses a text files loaded from the SCHEDULES folder of the Information Station. The text

Schedules 65 Scheduler E:COMMAND 1:<command here> An event has a variety of parameters that can be applied to it, in order to customiz

66 Schedules 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:

Schedules 67 Scheduler A set defines a certain range of valid repeat periods. In this example, only the Thursdays in November are eligible fo

68 Schedules 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 yo

Schedules 69 Scheduler This is the most common usage of the Repeat Number. It acts as a multiplier of the Repeat Period. They should be read

70 Schedules Periods can be one of the following: Sunrise, Sunset Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday Minute Hour D

Schedules 71 Scheduler Examples: R:5 P:day S:month ;repeat 5th day of every month R:2 P:monday S:month ;repeat 2nd Monday of

72 Schedules Order of Operations Here is a listing of times when Information Station checks the schedule and the operations afterwards. 1. I

Schedules 73 Scheduler • Double Occupancy - two events in the same slot The following types of events exist in Information Station: • One-

74 Schedules 5. Finites started on a later slot will take precedence over earlier finites. 6. Infinites started on a later slot will take p

Schedules 75 Scheduler UDP interface, or by holding in the power button. You can also completely automate this process by using the built in

76 Schedules

INI File – is.ini 77 INI File INI File – is.ini In the MEDIA folder (where you are located by default when you log in via FTP) is is.ini. It

78 INI File – is.ini Balance=0 Set Left/Right balance. 0=middle, -10000=all left , 10000 = all right side [PLAYLIST1] LogActivity=1 Set

Completion Acks 79 CompletionAcks Completion Acks The InformationStation sends Completion Acks at the end of playback of video, audio, and pla

80 FTP Client FTP Client As of firmware version 0.39 the unit supports an FTP client that gets initiated by searching a command file to chann

Updates from CD, DVD, USB Drives 81 Updates CD & USB Updates from CD, DVD, USB Drives The Information Station has the ability to automatic

Welcome! 1 Welcome Welcome! Thank you for purchasing The Alcorn McBride Information Station. We have tried to think of everything you need i

82 Updates from CD, DVD, USB Drives 7. The Information Station will copy any files to its MEDIA directories that do not match files already l

Specifications 83 Specifications Video IS: MPEG-2 (ISO 13818 MP@ML) 704x480, 720x480 NTSC, 30 fps Interlaced 704x576, 720x576 PAL, 25 fps Int

84 Specifications 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(

Index 85 Index A AMINet .............................