Sun Microsystems 2.1 manual Moving Content, Overview

C H A P T E R 4

Moving Content

Overview	page 4-1
Using CmTool	page 4-2
Loading Content	page 4-5
Table of Contents Page	page 4-12

This chapter describes the Sun MediaCenter CmTool, a Web-based graphical user interface (GUI) that allows you to transfer content to a Sun MediaCenter server. The tool is part of the software that is installed on the Sun MediaCenter server.

4.1Overview

CmTool is a set of Java applets that allow you to:

■Display the titles that are stored on a Sun MediaCenter server, as well as view information about individual titles.

■Transfer content to a Sun MediaCenter server.

Note –Chapter 2, “Preparing and Loading Content” describes video content and how it should be formatted for use with the Sun MediaCenter software. You should read this chapter before transferring content to the Sun MediaCenter server.

You need to have a valid username and password on the Sun MediaCenter server in order to use CmTool to transfer content to that server. CmTool will prompt you for a username and password when you attempt to load content to the server.

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