Introduction to the Control4 Media Player

Media Player

User Guide

Introduction to the Control4 Media Player V2

A key component of the Control4 vision to automate, control, and provide entertainment throughout the home is the Control4® Media Player—a device that plays back video files from your home network.

Using the Control4 Media Player with the Control4 system allows you to view video files on your TV, and eliminates the need to watch them on your computer. The Control4 system already allows you to browse cover art and play back your DVD and Blu-ray™ discs from any Control4 Navigator. With the addition of the Control4 Media Player, now you can also navigate and play your video files from the same user interface.

Using the Media Player

Before you start to use the Control4 Media Player (C4-MP2-E), ensure that it is installed, and both the Power and Link lights on the front of the unit are lit.

Also ensure that you or your Installer has used the Composer Media view to scan the network-attached storage for videos to use with this player.

See Media Player Installation and Setup Guide and Composer User Guide or online Help for more information.

Scanning the Media in Composer

1.Use the Composer software (Media Edition or Home Edi- tion, Media View) to identify videos that you want the Media Player to be able to play. Videos can be added manually, or Composer can scan network-attached storage locations to add video files automatically.

2.In Composer click the Media view.

3.Select the network-attached storage where the videos are located, and then click the Scan or New button. Scan will automatically identify some types of video files (normally ISO and IFO/VOBS files in a videoTS folder). Other types of video files can be added using the New button. This action automatically updates the Navigators and provides cover art (if available) for easy video recognition.

4.For videos that haven’t been identified in the scan process, use the New function to add the videos manually.

Additional details for advanced functions, such as adding your own cover art, are available in the Composer User Guide online Help.

Special Features

The following sections show you how to do the following tasks from your Navigator. Use the System Remote Control to:

•Change video playback resolution

•Move through the video by percentages

•Use the Fast Forward, Rewind, Pause/Play, Stop and Skip Fwd/Skip Back functions

System Remote Control (SR-250) Buttons

The buttons below show the controls for your Media Player.

Pg Up/Pg Dn: Use to adjust the video playback resolution (1080p, 780p, 480p, etc.). You can use this to change the video resolution if you want to view a video in a specific resolution.

Skip Forward/Skip Back: Skips through video approximately 5% with each press of the button.

Play: Resumes playback after Pause.

Fast Forward/Rewind: Advance or rewind. Press 1 time to advance or rewind video 4 times play rate; press 2 times to advance or rewind video

16 times play rate; press 3 times to advance or rewind video 64 times play rate, etc.

Pause: Pauses video. Press Play to start video where it left off when you paused it.

Stop: Stops video. When you press

Play, video starts at the beginning.

Numeric Keypad: Use with Go To.

See “Go To.”

‘Go To’

Press numbers 1 through 9 on the keypad to jump to a specific point in the video.

Examples:

Press 1 to jump to 10% into the movie. Press 5 to jump to the middle of the movie (50%). If you are at the end of the movie, pressing 2 will take you back to 20% into the movie.