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Chapter 2
Using DMPDM
After you click Apply, the entries or changes take effect. However, the previously defined values will
return as soon as the next time that your DMP restarts.
(Optional) To put all changed values into effect permanently, so that they persist even after your DMP
Step 4
restarts, select Administration > Save Configuration and, when the Save Configuration page appears,
click Save.
Restart your DMP. See
Step 5
Table 2-1
GUI Elements on the Basic Page
Element
Startup URLs
Video
Browser
Network Configuration
MAC Address
DHCP
IP Address
Subnet Mask
OL-12472-01
Restarting Your DMP, page
Description
The URL or local path that points to an encoded digital video file — or
should load automatically and show immediately after every restart. (The video file must be
encoded in a way that your DMP supports; see
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>
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•
udp:<ip_address_of_multicast_server>/<port_number>
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file:///tmp/ftproot/usb_1/<path_and_filename>
file:///tmp/ftproot/usb_2/<path_and_filename>
•
To simulate an audio-only file (given that we do not support their use directly), create an
Note
MPEG-2 file that contains all of the audio data that you want to play and contains just one
frame of video data.
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.
We recommend that you do not point to any document or site that requires human
Tip
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.
An uneditable representation of the MAC address that is associated with the NIC in your DMP.
Indicates whether your DMP uses a static IP address or a dynamic IP address. Options in the list
are as follows:
Enabled — Your DMP uses a dynamic IP address that it obtained from a DHCP server.
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Disabled — Your DMP uses a static IP address.
•
The IP address that is assigned to your DMP.
If your DHCP server changes the IP address assignment for a centrally managed DMP while
Note
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.
The IPv4 netmask that the DMP-local network segment uses.
2-19.
Limited Support for MPEG-4, page
(Files on the internal SD memory card)
(Files on a mounted USB flash drive)
User Guide for Cisco Digital Media Player Device Manager 1.0
Configuring Settings
playlist
— that your DMP
1-5.) The URL
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