Overview

System Overview

The Sony BZNP-100 Network Player Management Software is designed to manage systems that send audio and visual content, such as commercial videos played in public places or educational and training videos in a company, to Sony NSP-100 Network Players (referred to as "network players") via a network, then plays them.

The system uses video, graphics, and text materials. Unlike other authoring software, it manages video, graphics, and text materials separately, rather than combining them to make a piece of video material, and sends them together with a playlist.

This feature allows you to quickly replace some pieces of graphics and text materials that are small in data size, or to modify the position of video and/or text on the graphics material or produce new combinations of the materials simply by sending a new playlist. The system enables you to fully utilize your audio and visual content for flexible playout.

There are the following software products:

•BZNP-100

manages up to 100 network players.

•BZNP-100LE

is supplied with the NSP-100, and is a subset of this software which manages only one network player. There are also some "limitations for BZNP-100LE" described below.

The BZNP-100 software includes the following two applications so that you can select one according to your needs:

The Setup dialog box is used to switch between these two applications.

•Presentation Application

Used for presentations. This application creates and manages the playlists whose playout is controlled by the remote controller of the network player.

Externally triggered playout starting and automatic starting upon NSP-100 power-on are also supported.

•Scheduling Application (Not included in the BZNP-100LE)

Used for automatic playout. This application creates and manages the playlists whose playout is carried out automatically at a specified date and time.

Either application can handle the following four kinds of materials:

•Video

AVI and MPEG2 files, and Sony VSR-2000/2000A video files should be converted to the NSP format, which is the only format the network players can play.

•Graphics

Bitmap and JPEG files should be converted to the NSP format, which is the only format the network players can display.

•Text

Data to be superimposed on a video or graphics item should be created as text.

The system enables you to use a bitmap file to be superimposed as a piece of "text," too.

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