To uninstall the management software, proceed as follows:
Select [Start] on the Windows task bar, then [Program], [Sony], [Signage Player Management Software], and then [Uninstall Signage Player Management Software].
The uninstall program starts. Uninstall the software according to the instructions given by the wizard displayed on the screen.
• Previously created user data will not be removed in the uninstallation process. Delete the data folder, including its subfolders, manually.
Before uninstallation, you can open the data folder by clicking [File] on the menu bar of the main window of the management software, then selecting [Open Data Folder] on the displayed popup menu.
• If a confirmation message from Windows appears, click [Continue] or [Allow].
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Content, Content Items
Video, still image, text, audio files, and control commands registered in the management software.
Playlists and schedules are created by listing these content items in the order of playout.
Video, still image, and audio items are listed on playlists, whereas text items and control commands are listed on schedules.
Control, Control Items
A system provided to control a player or a display device connected to a player.
Control items for the players and display devices are registered in the management software upon
installation.
Actions such as adjusting the output audio level, turning the power on/ standby, and switching the input signal of the display device, etc., are available by adding the
corresponding control item to a schedule.
Default content
The default playlist that is played during periods where no other playlists are specified on a player on which schedule playout is in
progress.
You can specify a playlist as default content by clicking the “Save and Distribute as Default” button after editing the playlist.
Distribution
To send schedules and settings to players.
When a schedule is distributed, the playlists and content required for the scheduled playout are distributed automatically.
There are also two distribution methods: using a network and using a USB flash drive.
When a network is used for distribution, each player is actually downloading data from the computer,
data is not sent to the player by the management software.
When a USB flash drive is used for distribution, the data is exported to the USB flash drive that is plugged into a USB slot on the computer. The exported data will then be copied from the USB flash drive to the storage of the player.
Exporting
To transfer data to a USB flash drive for distribution. Exporting is used for players that are not connected to any network.
When a schedule is exported, the playlists and content required for the scheduled playout will be copied to the USB flash drive, too,
automatically.
Also, the system/player settings specified in the initial setup process using “Easy Setting Wizard,” and in the “Settings” window are also copied to the USB flash drive simultaneously, and transferred to players.
Interrupt Playout
A function that distributes content to a player that is performing scheduled playout, and ensures the distributed content is played immediately. This is used for urgent information, like a news flash.
When a text item is selected for interrupt playout, the text item currently playing will be replaced with the interrupting content, but other content will continue playing. If there is no text item currently playing, the interrupting text item will be displayed on the top layer. When a still image is selected, the interrupting content will be played on the special “interruption layer,” which is located at the top of the layers, so that content being played in the ongoing playout is completely hidden behind the interrupting still image played on the interruption layer.
Layer
Each player has two basic display layers: one for video or still images, and the other for text items, and a special display layer used for interrupt playout managed by a player.
A player plays a single content item at a time on each layer, according to a playlist.
The special layer for interrupt playout is located at the top of the layers and used when a still image is used as the interrupting content. The layers are overlaid in the order as shown in the figure above. (The numbers in the figure show the order.)
Layout
The position (Y-coordinate) of a single-line text item.
Player
The VSP-BZ10 Digital Signage Player.
It stores content distributed from the management software in its storage, and plays the content according to the specified playlist and schedule.
Playlist
A sequence of content items in the order of playout.
When a playlist is created, you can attach schedule information, such as the time, period, and days of the week when it should be played on the players, then distribute that playlist.
Video or still image (1)
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You can also manually create a schedule for a playlist, in
combination with text items and/or control items.
Schedule
Listed information for each day in which sets of a time period and playlist or audio item to be played in that period are specified, like a time table.
The control items can be specified in a schedule, too.
Each schedule has added information on the period and days of the week when the schedule is used for playout, when saved.
The start time and stop time for a schedule are specified by the DisplayON.xml and
DisplayStandby.xml control commands.
Schedule Start Time
A setting specified with the “Easy Setting Wizard.”
It specifies the start time of the schedule (time table) of each day. The schedule (and hence time table) continues 24 hours from this time point as a single day.
The day of a schedule is decided according to the start time of the schedule.
Playout of any item must be scheduled within one schedule day. Playout starting on a certain schedule day cannot end on another schedule day.
Transition
A setting for a playlist that specifies whether an effect should be used upon transition between two adjacent still images in the playlist.
You can select the transition time, either slow or fast.
This setting is for each playlist. This setting will affect all the still images in the playlist.
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A
Add Content window 23 adding
content items to playlists 35 players 66
playlists, text items, and control items to schedules 44 Adjust Player Time to This Computer
setting 64 application
installing 18
assigning IP addresses for players 16 attaching schedule information to
playlists 37
audio files, registering 25
audio items, adding to schedules 44
B
backing up content, playlists, schedules, and system/player settings 71