Chapter 2 Using DMPDM

Configuring Settings

After you click Apply, the entries or changes take effect. However, the previously defined values will return the next time that your DMP restarts.

Step 4 (Optional) To put all changed values into effect permanently, so that they persist even after your DMP restarts, select Administration > Save Configuration and, when the Save Configuration page appears, click Save.

Step 5 Restart your DMP. See Restarting Your DMP, page 2-22.

Table 2-1

GUI Elements on the Basic Page

Element

Description

Startup URLs

 

Video

The URL or local path that points to an encoded digital video file that your DMP should load

 

 

automatically and show immediately after every restart. (The video file must be encoded in a way

 

 

that your DMP supports; see Limited Support for MPEG-4, page 1-6.) The URL or pathname

 

 

cannot contain any more than 254 characters, cannot contain any spaces, and must use

 

 

ISO/IEC-8859 (Latin-1) character encoding. The value that you enter is case-sensitive.

 

 

Supported transport protocols and URL types are as follows:

 

 

http://<ip_address>/<path_and_filename>

 

 

udp://<ip_address_of_multicast_server>/<port_number>

 

 

file:///tmp/ftproot/usb_1/<path_and_filename> — For files on the internal SD memory card

 

 

file:///tmp/ftproot/usb_2/<path_and_filename> — For files on a mounted USB flash drive

 

 

Note To simulate an audio-only file (given that we do not support their use directly), create an

 

 

 

MPEG-2 file that contains all of the audio data that you want to play and contains just one

 

 

 

frame of video data.

 

 

 

 

Browser

The HTTP URL of any document that the embedded browser should load automatically and show

 

 

immediately after each restart. For example, the URL that you enter might point to an HTML page

 

 

with an embedded Flash file that animates the logo for your organization. The URL cannot contain

 

 

any more than 254 characters, cannot contain any spaces, and must use ISO/IEC-8859 (Latin-1)

 

 

character encoding.

 

 

Tip

We recommend that you do not point to any document or site that requires human

 

 

 

interaction to be useful, interesting, or entertaining, because there is no keyboard or mouse

 

 

 

that you can use to interact with what you show on your DMP display.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Network Configuration

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

DMP MAC Address

An uneditable representation of the MAC address that is associated with the NIC in your DMP.

 

 

 

 

Dynamic IP Addressing

Indicates whether your DMP uses a static IP address or a dynamic IP address. Options in the list

 

(DHCP)

are as follows:

 

 

Enabled — Your DMP uses a dynamic IP address that it obtained from a DHCP server.

 

 

Disabled — Your DMP uses a static IP address.

 

 

 

 

IP Address

The IP address that is assigned to your DMP.

 

 

Note If your DHCP server changes the IP address assignment for a centrally managed DMP while

 

 

 

the DMP is running, instead of waiting for the DMP to restart, you must restart the DMP.

 

 

 

Otherwise, you cannot use DMM-DSM to centrally manage that DMP.

 

 

 

 

Subnet Mask

The IPv4 netmask that the DMP-local network segment uses.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

User Guide for Cisco Digital Media Player Device Manager 1.1

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

OL-13985-01

 

 

 

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