ProPlayerPlus PPP, User Manual

Page 1: ...work Settings 7 Wi Fi Network Settings 8 GEFEN Controls MultiPlay 9 Ultrasonic Rangefinder Configuration 10 DMX Lighting Control Playback 11 Disable Enable Playlist Mode 12 Put System to Sleep Wake System Up 13 Switch System Type 14 MultiPlay 15 Types of Media 16 Loading Media 17 Playing Media 18 Live Camera View 19 Live WEB View 20 Video Content Creation Made Easy 21 A World of Software Programs ...

Page 2: ...edia Player In addition to controlling media playback Pro Player Plus Players can control other devices in sync with your videos such as lighting fixtures Pioneer receivers touch screens video switchers and custom built devices This is convenient for controlling lights and sound for trade show exhibits museum exhibits sales demos lobby displays and more 24 7 Reliability Pro Player Plus is built up...

Page 3: ...minute changes of Master Slave Configurations and it facilitates unexpected changes on site 2 Determine how many Master Slave GROUPS are needed 3 Determine which PP Player s will run as a MASTER or as a SLAVE Each player on each project must be configured by the user as either a Master or a Slave and can be re configured as necessary HELPFUL DEFINITIONS MASTERS When a PP Player is functioning as a...

Page 4: ...2 Project Design continued The easiest way to make your project design configuration is to lay it out on paper ...

Page 5: ...terials heavy duty self adhesive Velcro or wood screws depending on your mounting method Connections Plug each PP Player into its power supply Connect each PP Player to its designated monitor via HDMI cable Mini Displayport Connect each PP Player to a router via a Cat5e cable Multi unit configuration Note Each PP Player is small enough to be mounted directly on the back of the monitor This can be ...

Page 6: ...r than 192 168 168 1 Open your browser and enter 192 168 168 1 switch into the url When the configuration screen appears select Master or Slave You have the option of deleting ALL MEDIA FILES as well from this menu Custom Set Up Once in the switch slave screen you can select a monitor number for the slave The IP address will change so make note of the new IP address The system will reboot and you ...

Page 7: ...r and enter in 192 168 168 1 proplayerplus Login is either user 1234 or admin 321p If you re using the supplied D Link wireless router and you would like to connect via the wireless side then select XXX ProPlayerPlus from the SSID and type in 321p321p for the network password We suggest using a cable connection for faster connectivity The wireless is a great choice for playback of videos playlists...

Page 8: ...There are two unique views when logged in as an admin List and Table are the two views Table shows every file separately so you can make changes to them individually List view compresses all files with the same name for easier viewing The number of files is displayed by the number of monitor icons if a DMX file is present than you will see a bulb icon as well From within the media file list you ca...

Page 9: ... adjustments to the file the arrow icon is used to download the file and the X is to delete the file The gear icon allows user to rotate the video 0 90 180 and 270 degrees Users can also trim the start and end points of a video file to change its playback length Trim is independent on each file so when using systems in the master slave setup you will need to trim every file separately ...

Page 10: ...hree separate files JPG to Video If you have a JPG and you want it to be displayed immediately just place it on the root of a USB thumb drive and insert into a master player After 60 seconds the JPG will be converted into a video and begin playing in loop mode Create Slideshow Slideshow is how users can create videos from a series of pictures Users can set the photo duration the fade length from p...

Page 11: ...X file If you have a project and you want a selection of scenes files to play one after the other create a playlist by clicking on the Create Playlist tab Enter a name for the playlist then select the scene file from the dropdown menu You can keep adding more scenes files by using the Add Scene button ...

Page 12: ... directory By default the system does this every 90 seconds but you may want immediate updating of the slaves media directory Table View There are two unique views when logged in as an admin List and Table are the two views Table shows every file separately so you can make changes to them individually List view compresses all files with the same name for easier viewing The number of files is displ...

Page 13: ...ge This is not how PP communicates between each other If you are required by an IT department to use a specific IP and gateway then this is where you set it For rental companies if a player comes back and you don t know what the IP was set to then use the following feature to reset it IP Reset can be done by creating a text file with the name ipreset txt and placing it on a USB thumb drive in the ...

Page 14: ...ere is where you set the players network settings such as its IP address and where you can set up multiple masters to all be on the same router and network By default a master is 192 168 168 1 but you can set it to 192 168 168 2 100 here ...

Page 15: ...name and password By default a master is set to Admin Mode which is hard coded so all players will logon to a SSID of admin with password of 321p321p So if you set your cell phone to create a hotspot called admin with a password of 321p321p then any master player will call into our VPN from the field ...

Page 16: ...rrent routes to a preset and recall presets Select one of the 8 inputs and which of the 8 outputs you d like to send it to The GEFEN will immediately display the selection in the window located on the GEFEN After saving your 8 choices move to the save current routes as preset tab Select which preset you d like to save your selections to Then use the recall presets tab to call the presets ...

Page 17: ...9 Ultrasonic Rangefinder Configuration This is the tab where you can setup the trigger distance delay time and scene play call for using this external distance sensor ...

Page 18: ...l lighting console or software you program that trigger channel to go on at the beginning of the lighting sequence and go low when finished The name of the file will be saved to the system so you can assign it to play with the video scene file that has the same name An example is test dmx would play with test mov when called to play You will need to connect the ENTTEC DMX dongle to the Master play...

Page 19: ...nable Playlist Mode This is the tab where you can switch on or off the playlist feature It simply toggles the feature on or off You still need to launch a playlist from the Media Manager tab for it to begin playing ...

Page 20: ...s never really off so we call it Sleeping Sleeping displays black video and black DMX output so if you have monitors or projectors that have auto sensing inputs they will shut off When you select Wake System Up the Group file will begin playing and your devices will turn on if equipped with auto sense ...

Page 21: ...13 Switch System Type This is the tab where you can switch the system from a master to a slave You can also remove all unprotected media files here by selecting Remove All Media Files ...

Page 22: ...l control of the PP device A good example is video conferencing using WebEx The camera signals are fed to all cities so everyone can see and hear each other Now it s time to play a corporate video in all cities and the WebEx bandwidth won t allow for HD quality playback VPN Play allows the lead city to trigger local playback in High Definition And should the network go down an operator locally can...

Page 23: ...les You can open delete or edit directly from this screen Reset System Does what it says reboots the master system remotely This is great for when systems are located remotely and can t be accessed directly User Manual Users can open this directly from any device logged onto a system ...

Page 24: ...reating custom settings The Pro Player Plus System depends upon proper encoding in order to retrieve detailed information from a file such as its play length Without that info a file will not play properly or may not play at all The vast majority of problems are due to improperly encoded files If you re going to synchronize your videos you must use the same Codec encoding scheme on all of your med...

Page 25: ...st one file or 100 files plus it will immediately begin playing the last file loaded This makes for an easy way to change the default file on site Web Browser Create Scene Tab method is a great way to build a scene that is made up of differently named files Example Let s say you have a three monitor setup and you have three different videos named Product A Product B and Product C and you want them...

Page 26: ...the laptop tablet running PowerPoint Secondly you need to disable the Bing search engine and replace it with Google Chrome making it your default browser Open the default PPTX file that every system comes with and rename it so as to prevent changes to the original Now go ahead and create your PowerPoint Any object picture text or Icon can be used to trigger a scene file on PP To do that select the...

Page 27: ... can connect a live camera feed to the Marshall encoder and play that feed on any monitor as if it was a video file Setting up this feature requires setting the Marshall IP Address xxx xxx xxx xxx and then copy and paste that same setting in the Create Scene Tab Multicast IP Address line ...

Page 28: ...ture utilizes an internal browser to display a website It is important that the URL is properly copied into the webpage URL window The best way is to go to the website and copy the URL and paste it directly into the Webpage URL ...

Page 29: ...them into a beautiful high definition video complete with dissolves Another useful feature is the ability of Photo Stage Pro to handle every type of video and still format available today and export them into one high definition video file as well You can even edit your video content and add text and effects Digital Signage can be created by simply using PowerPoint to create your message include t...

Page 30: ...arket today can be used with Pro Player Plus There s also a huge selection of cameras out there that record high definition video in one of the file formats that Pro Player Plus plays allowing you to go directly from camera to monitor by just inserting a thumb drive it s that easy ...