2) Project Design
Content creation and hardware configuration go hand in hand. You may have only one monitor on your
project, or you may have many. You may have only one video content file to display, or you may have
many. You may be displaying the same content on each monitor, or you may have different content on
different monitors. You can quickly see that project design can become varied and complex. It's
essential to think through and lay out your design ahead of time.
The following process will help clarify the scope of your project in terms of video playback equipment
requirements:
1)
Determine how many Monitors/Pro-Player Plus (PP+) Players you will need for your project
* While it isn't always necessary, we highly recommend designating one Pro‐Player Plus Player
to each monitor involved in your project, because it gives you ultimate flexibility in content
playback on a per monitor basis. It allows the same or different content files to be played across
a variety of monitors in your choice of configurations, it enables last 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 MASTER, it is not synchronized to any other player.
A MASTER can run ...
as a full‐featured standalone media player that runs its own monitor autonomously on a SOLO
basis ... OR ...
as a full‐featured "MASTER" media player, running its own monitor content in addition to
controlling one or more SLAVE PP+ Players in its Group (attached to its same Group network)
SLAVES
When a PP+ Player is functioning as a SLAVE, it becomes a media player that is synchronized to and
controlled by a MASTER for multi‐monitor configurations such as video walls.
GROUPS (LANS)
Users can create small LANs (Local Area Networks) that we refer to as GROUPS of players. Each of
these groups can be accessed and controlled separately from any WIFI-enabled smart device by
simply logging into that group’s router. Each LAN/GROUP is comprised of one MASTER and one or
more SLAVES.
