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UserGuide for Cisco Digital Media Manager5.4.x
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Chapter17 Media Assets and Embedded Software
Procedures
Caution Before a DMP4305G or 4400G will render any video asset for playback, make sure that the video duration is at least
3seconds. Otherwise, the extreme brevity triggers DMP failover, which unloads the current playlist or presentation and causes
your DMP to render its failover URL instead.
•To avoid this behavior altogether, use only video clips whose full duration is 3seconds or more.
•To prevent this behavior temporarily when extremely brief video is somehow essential, disable video failover.
•To recover from this behavior, restart the application.
A DMP4310G does not e xhibit this behavior.
Note The user interface in Cisco Digital Signs sometimes shows a mistaken estimate of 0 (zero) seconds as the
full duration of a video playlist. Even though the estimate is wrong, the error does not have any practical
consequences. Playback starts and stops as scheduled, without disruption.
This occurs after you set any video asset in the playlist to use 0 seconds as its planned duration. A video asset whose
planned duration is 0 (zero) seconds will play from beginning to end.
When you want to skip a video instead of playing it, you must remove it from the playlist. Any playlist’s constituent
nonvideo assets must have a planned duration of at least 1 second.
Step9
Choose at least one category.
Step10
(Optional) Enter a description.
Step11
(Optional) Enter an owner for the asset.
Step12
Click Save.
OR
Click Cancel.
Step13
Stop. You have completed this procedure.
Add Multiple Assets Simultaneously to Your Media Library
The amount of time that a batch download operation requires depends on the speed of your connection,
the number of directory levels that you search for downloadable files, and the total combined file size of
all files that you transfer.
Note • After you start to import an asset, do not click any browser button or navigate away from this page until the import
is finished. When you do, the import will not finish successfully.
• We recommend that you do not use your DMM appliance as if it is a storage server. It has limited capacity to store
files and DMM might not function as designed when space runs low.
Before You Begin
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Use the DMS-Admin dashboard to check available space. For details, see File Size and Storage
Restrictions, page 17-5.