Page 1: Table Of Contents
MAG Design PocketVJ - Manual Rev.: D © 2015 First of all 1. Connecting 2. Loading files 3. SSH on mac 3. SSH on win 4. Samba 5. Loading from USB 6. Slide Show 7. Sync 8. Other things 9. Control Panel Upgrade 10.
Page 2: First Of All
VGA resolution (there is the possibility to change the standard resolution in the configuration panel). If you powered up the connected screen after boot and it goes to power safe, simply go to the control panel of the PocketVJ and click ‘Screen power on’.
Page 3: Connecting
4. Open your favourite Webbrowser and enter: (we recommend Chrome) 2.0.0.*** (replace the *** with the number of your PocketVJ WiFi name e.g. VJ100 = 2.0.0.100) into the address bar. 5. Hit Enter and you see the control panel: (If you load it for the first time, it may take a minute to be fully accessible) We don‘t take any responsibilities for errors caused by the user!
Page 4: Loading Files
MAG Design PocketVJ 2. Loading Files 1. Hit ‘STOP all players’ in the configuration panel. 2. Click ‘OPEN filebrowser’. 3. There opens up a new tab with an Extplorer. 4. Upload and manage your files in the ‘internal’ folder, be patient while uploading! If you use Google Chrome®...
Page 5 3. Enter the Password for the WiFi connection (you should have it, if not, ask us). 4. Open Fugu (you can download it here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/fugussh/ ) 5. In the Server Address Bar Type : 2.0.0.*** (replace the *** with the number of your PocketVJ WiFi name) Username: pi Password: ********* 6.
Page 6 1. Make sure your PocketVJ is running with the WiFi dongle plugged in. 2. On your Win Computer, choose the WiFi connection of your PocketVJ (its named vj113, or vj109, or vj***) 3. Enter the Password for the WiFi connection (you should have it, if not, ask us) 4.
Page 7: Samba
3. Enter the Password for the WiFi connection (you should have it, if not, ask us). 4. In Finder go to: GO > Connect to Server 5. In the Server address bar type : smb://2.0.0.*** (replace the *** with the number of your PocketVJ WiFi name). 6. Connect, in the Password Prompt select Guest 7.
Page 8 - Make sure to unmount the USB stick before unplugging, otherwise you can’t use it on your computer again, if this happens, just plug it in back to the PocketVJ and ‘UNMOUNT’ it properly. - Don’t plug in Harddisks or USB stick which uses high amount of power! - If you want to connect a Harddisk, you have to use a powered USB hub to provide enough power.
Page 9: Slideshow
MAG Design PocketVJ 6. Slideshow 1. Connect to your PocketVJ as described in 1. Connecting. 2. Click ‘STOP player’. 3. If not already done, copy some *.jpg images to the the hard drive. 4. Click ‘START image player’. 5. Your slideshow is running until next reboot.
Page 10: Sync
- If the slave always starts again after 5 seconds of playing, make sure it gets signal from master, and make sure it has the same conditions as the master. - It is known that when you use a router, it sometimes blocks the traffic, because the PocketVJ has a static Ip address, restart router and all PocketVJs.
Page 11: Other Things
MAG Design PocketVJ 8. Other things RESOLUTION with this function you can get the actual output resolution edidparser outputs list of supported Resolutions it will show you a list of resolution modes the connected display supports and which formats are filtered out.
Page 12: Control Panel Upgrade
2. Copy the downloaded www.zip to the root of an USB-Stick Extract the www.zip on the USB-Stick 3. Plug the USB-Stick into your PocketVJ (it should reboot itself) 4. Open the Control Panel, Hit ‘STOP’, then hit ‘MOUNT USB‘ and finally hit ‘CONTROLPANEL UPGRADE’...
Page 13: Screen Sharing
4. Voilà, you should have your computer display mirrored on the PocketVJ Note: Your computer display must have the same resolution as the screen connected to the PocketVJ. If the display is confusingly stretched, it might be that your computers resolution is set too high. Set your comput- ers resolution to max.
Page 14 MAG Design PocketVJ Create h.264 movies in Adobe After Effects ® 1. In the Render Queue tab, click on Outputmodule and select Format: H.264 2. Select Format Options.. and check the bitrate settings (for FullHD use 6Mbps, for VGA use 2.4Mbps) You may use higher bitrates, e.g.
Page 15 1. Go to http://www.vimeo.com, if not already registered, register and upload your movie. 2. After your movie is processed and online, hit the Download button, save it to your computer. 3. You have a perfectly converted h264 movie for the PocketVJ. We don‘t take any responsibilities for errors caused by the user! MAG Design info@magdesign.ch...
Page 16: Info@Magdesign.ch
MAG Design PocketVJ Convert movies to h264.mp4 with ffmpegX (macintosh) 1. Download and install ffmpegX with all the libraries: http://www.ffmpegx.com 2. Start it and drag your movie to the From field. 3. Select the To dropdown: MP4 H.264 4. Select the Video tab, control the Video Size, Autosize, Framerate and Video Bitrate.
Page 17 MAG Design PocketVJ Convert movies to h264.mp4 with winFF (windows) WinFF Download the opensource tool WinFF from their website www.winff.org and install it. After successful installation, open the program: 1. Wählen Sie unter Konvertieren MPEG-4 und unter Profil MPEG-4 H.264 2.
Page 18 4. Unter Video Processing wählen Sie für Container: mp4, Codec: libx264, Bitrate: 3000k 5. Klicken Sie Encode und warten bis Ihr .mp4 Video erstellet wurde 6. Laden Sie die Datei auf Ihren PocketVJ We don‘t take any responsibilities for errors caused by the user! MAG Design info@magdesign.ch...
Page 19 MAG Design PocketVJ Convert movies to h264.mp4 with Online-Convert Visit http://www.online-convert.com Under Video converter select ‘Convert to MP4’ Upload your file and let it convert, for more Info check the FAQ on website. We don‘t take any responsibilities for errors caused by the user! MAG Design info@magdesign.ch...
Page 20 MAG Design PocketVJ Technical Data / Specification Dimensions: 110 x 76 x 31 mm Operating voltage: Power consumption: ~ 3 W Operating Temperature: 5°- 50° C Video-Ports: 1 x HDMI (1 x Composite) Audio-Ports: 1 x 3.5mm mini jack Media-Ports 2 x USB 2.0...
Page 21: Troubleshooting
Make sure there are only movie files in the storage (no images, texte files etc.) - Connected several PocketVJs over a router Check the Gateway settings of your router, in original mode the pocketvj runs in 192.168.2.1 - The player syncs but its constantly running asynchron Change the SYNC_WINDOW in omxplayer-sync with any text editor and upgrade it We don‘t take any responsibilities for errors caused by the user!
Page 22 Display Modes: You can ignore the screens edid: hdmi_ignore_edid=0xa5000080 edid is a code which the screen sends to the PocketVJ to tell which resolution he prefers hdmi_group defines the HDMI type: Not specifying the group, or setting to 0 will use the preferred group reported by the edid.
Page 23 2x means pixel doubled (i.e. higher clock rate, with each pixel repeated twice) 4x means pixel quadrupled (i.e. higher clock rate, with each pixel repeated four times) We don‘t take any responsibilities for errors caused by the user! MAG Design info@magdesign.ch Seftigenstrasse 22...
Page 24 1856x1392 120Hz reduced blanking hdmi_mode=68 1920x1200 reduced blanking (should work) hdmi_mode=69 1920x1200 60Hz hdmi_mode=70 1920x1200 75Hz We don‘t take any responsibilities for errors caused by the user! MAG Design info@magdesign.ch Seftigenstrasse 22 079 651 44 59 Page 24 CH-3007 Bern...

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