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Quick Start Guide for Cisco Digital Media Player 4300G

1Important Concepts

2Package Contents

3Connect to DHCP Server

4Connect to DMP Display

5Connect to 120V AC Socket

6Check DMP LEDs

7Log In to DMPDM

8Configure Video Output

9Identify Trusted DMM-DS

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1Important Concepts

Cisco Digital Media Player 4300G (DMP) is a compact, addressable network appliance that delivers digital signage content to a display that you attach. The display can be analog or digital and can be standard-definition or high-definition. DMP is one part of the Cisco Digital Media System (DMS), which combines many Cisco products.

Note The physical location where you set up a DMP must be within 6 feet of a 120V AC electrical outlet (socket) and within 6 feet of the DMP display.

Cisco Digital Media Player Device Manager

(DMPDM) is a web-based graphical user interface to configure one DMP device during its initial setup or to manage one DMP device in isolation. DMPDM is served from the DMP that it manages.

A DMP display is any analog or digital television screen or other kind of monitor that is attached directly to a DMP and that shows digital signage content to an audience.

Other important concepts

Cisco Application and Content Networking System (ACNS) interoperates with DMM-DS to greatly reduce redundant digital media traffic over satellite and terrestrial networks. ACNS offers a comprehensive set of streaming media features to deliver high-quality and long-playing digital videos live and simultaneously to thousands of users and DMPs, or on demand at a later time.

Cisco Digital Media Manager Administration Interface (DMM-Admin) is a web-based graphical user interface to install or upgrade the software licenses that enable you to use DMM-DS.DMM-Admin is served from a Cisco Media Convergence Server.

Cisco Digital Media Manager for Digital Signage (DMM-DS) is a web-based graphical user interface; it is the scalable alternative to DMPDM. DMM-DS helps you to centrally manage a network of DMPs, develop digital signage content for them, organize

the content, develop playlists, and much more. DMM-DS is served from a Cisco Media Convergence Server.

Digital signage consists of any combination of messages or other kinds of information that people can see or hear, and that a DMP delivers to people. The content might relate to commerce, popular entertainment, staff training, emergency awareness, combinations of those things, or nearly anything. The people who manage a DMP (or who manage multiple DMPs in a digital signage network) decide what to show or say, and when, and to whom.

To learn more about DMS products and features, go to http://www.cisco.com/go/dms.

2Package Contents

The product package for one DMP 4300G device should contain all of the following:

•This quick start guide and other printed product documentation.

•The DMP 4300G.

•Two video cables (HDMI & composite/RCA).

•One AC adapter and four plugs.

If anything is missing from the package or appears to be defective, contact the technical support team trained to support DMS products at: dms-softwarekeys@cisco.com.

3Connect to DHCP Server

The factory default for a DMP 4300G is to obtain its IP address automatically from a DHCP server.

If you will deploy your DMP at a physical location that does not have a DHCP server, see Appliance Administration Guide for Cisco Digital Media System 4.0 on Cisco.com to learn how to configure your DMP to use a static IP address.

Tip If a network security policy restricts DHCP address assignments to network interface cards with known MAC addresses, read the sticker that is affixed

to the bottom of your DMP chassis, then provide your security policy administrator with the MAC address.

Step 1 Plug one end of an ordinary Ethernet cable into the Ethernet 10/100 port on the back of the DMP chassis.

Step 2 Plug the other end of the Ethernet cable into a network hub, network switch, or router that participates in a DHCP network.

4Connect to DMP Display

You can use an analog or a digital display, but must use the provided composite/RCA cable. (You must always use the composite/RCA cable for audio, even if you later use HDMI for video.)

Step 1 On the back of the DMP chassis: (a) plug the yellow jack into the CVBS connector;

(b)plug the red jack into the AUDIO/RIGHT connector; and (c) plug the white jack into the AUDIO/LEFT connector.

Step 2 Connect the other end of the composite/RCA cable to your DMP display.

Step 3 If the DMP display is not already turned on, turn it on now.

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4300G specifications

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