Publishing a Screen

Overview – Showing how to send (publish) channel content and information to a player.

Search for the Channel.

1. Select “Screen” from the library menu.
2. Type in the screens name that you want to publish.
3. Click the Search button

Open Screen from search result

Double Click on the item

Publishing Screen

Select Publish and from the drop down click on “Manual Publish”

Publish Options

1. Select the Publish Process
2. and what Publish Mode. Publish Updates: only publishes changed files. Force Publish: Publishes all the content on the channel.
3. Select “Publish Now”

Adding a content list to a layer

Overview – searching for a pre made content list and adding it to a layer.

Search for content list

1. Select “Content List” from the Library drop down
2. Type in the name of your content list
3. Click Search

Drag and drop content list into clipboard

1. Drag and drop the content list from your search results into the clip board.
2. Go back to the Channel by clicking on the Channels tab.

Add the play list to the layer

Drag and drop the play list onto the layer

Agree to Success notification

Click OK.

Opening the play list

To open the attached play list double click on the layer.

 

Adding a Layer to a screen

Overview – A layer is used to change the layout of a screen. Adding a side banner layer to a screen and changing layer properties.

Opening properties of existing layers

1. Right click on the layer.
2. Hover over the layer option.
3. Select “Layer Properties”

Changing properties of existing layers

1. Change the width of current layer to 80 so that I can add a side banner layer.
2. Select Done

Adding a new layer

1. Right click on the layer.
2. Hover over the layout option.
3. Select “New Layer”

Changing Layers properties

1. Right click on the layer.
2. Hover over the layer option.
3. Select “Layer Properties”

Setting properties for new layer

Fill in the layers properties:

1. Layers Name .Ag. background, banner, main ….
2. x coordinates
3. y coordinates
4. width
5. height
6. layer color

Now you can click Done.

Screen with added layer

 

Creating a Player Channel

Overview – A Channel will be used to compile a layout with layers and content lists. You can think of it as creating a channel where you manage content played on a TV/Monitor.

Creating a new player channel

Select the New Player Channel button.

1. Give the screen a name –
2. Add the screen status
3. Select the Aspect Ratio of the screen (16×9, 4×3…)
4. You can simple save at this point and continue to the next screen. Alternativley you can add the required constraints,permissions and rights can be added.

It is not a requirement to add permissions and rights to a screen layout.

If you would like to add further information like

1. Data and time constraints
2. Permissions
3. RIghts

This can be added at any point but it is advised to add this information when creating the list or data object.

Adding a layout

Go to the screen works tab.

Select Screen Layout

Go to the screen works menu and select the screen layout tab.
Click on the screen layouts button.

 

Available screen Layouts

To use a layout you will need to drag it to your clipboard. Select the screen – hold left click and drag it to the clipboard

Users Note: When working with the nfinityX you need to take advantage of the clipboard environment as it allows one to work more efficiently. You should setup clipboards that have your commonly used items. Setup clipboards that house the following:

1. Bouquets
2. Networks
3. Screens
4. Screen layouts
5. Save Searches

If you set this up well you will find it very useful!

 

Drag and drop a layout onto your screen from the clipboard

1. Click and drag the layout from your clipboard onto your screen.
2. Pop up appears where you can add the Start Date, Start TIme and End Date, End Time for the layout.

Drag the desired layout to your new screen

1. Drag layout to empty screen
2. The layout commencement panel will appear
3. If you would like to put and end date for the screen add it to the panel
4. Click save

The screen now has a layout and you can add a playlist to it.

Screen layout applied

Once the layout is attached to the screen the “Layers panel” and “Time Line” panels populate.

The panels are now able to accept content lists. This can be done in two ways.

1. Cick on the Icon at the top of the panel
2. Alternativley drag a list to the panel.

 

 

Using Multi Select in player dashboard

Using the multi select function is very useful to change a large number of machines config file.

Selecting multiple players or targets

1. To select multiple players that run concurrently in the list click on the top most player
2. Hold Shift
3. Select the bottom player
4. All the players will be selected

If you want to select individual players

1. Select the first player
2. Hold control (cmd MAC) and select the rest of the desired players you wish to change the configuration on
3. Release control

Once the players are selected you can make the desired changes on the player manager.

Note: Name and Mac address are greyed out in the multiple select mode.

Player Manager

The new dashboard allows users to manage the connected media players directly. The new dashboard allows users to multiselect when making changes to the screens like changing the bouquets and screens.

Accesing the player manager.

If the player manager is not open click on the small icon which will be in the middle of the of the righthand side of the screen.This will open the player manager panel.

Note: if you do not have the user rights to see the player manager it will not be available. Contact your nfinityX administrator.

Overview of Manager

Selecting a player from your list displays the information of the player in the manager. Users with the correct rights may make changes to the connected media player.

Note: Please take care when working with the manager as all changes will be live on the network. Once the user saves a new config file will be deployed to the media player.

Edit Config

1. Name – Setup on initial player setup
2. Location – this is a server based field and can be inputed at any time, this field is very useful when using the dashboard as it allows you to narrow your search very quickly. The most effective way to use this is to have a control code – location and area
3. Mac address is populated by the connected media player this is a unique number.
4. Server the media player is connected to.
5. Return server the player is connected to.
6. Project the media player is connected too.
7. Screen within the Bouquet/Project the media player is connected to
8. Format the nfinityX will transcode the media or video files for distribution. This is a trade off,
taking bandwidth and quality into consideration.
9. Period which updates will be sent to the media player
10. Heartbeat interval sending to server
11. Player logs sent to server
12. Connection type
13. Fullscreen – checked for fullscreen on (Normal operation full screen)
14. Cursor
15. Debug enable on off
16. Time Sync – this is used to synchronize media players across a network. The media players are connected with two-way communication to the nfinityX server this mode is possible and works very accurately. 
17. Volume can be set on media player.
18. Active-if not checked player will not update
19.Save – Save settings and send config file to media player
20. Cancel-abort changes
21. Delete player. Note if you delete the media player the player logs are kept, if this machine is moved after repair it will reconnect and download the old config file. Make sure you change the bouquet and screen on the server as it will begin to play the last attached screen.

Using the Dashboard

Player Dashboard provides indepth views and controls of the attached media players.

Access Dashboard

The new nfinityX dashboard allows a comprehensive view into the attached players on your network. The icon is found in the Screen Works manager. Click on Icon to access. The major upgrades in the new dashboard allow the user to search and find a media player/s and manage them from the built in manager.
The manager module allows users to manage the content displayed on the screen or select screens.

Availability of the functions on the dashboard are dependent on the version of player deployed. If the deployment includes GPS, access to this information would be available.

Dashboard overview

The following information is available on the Dashboard. The following information may be arranged to suit the user’s requirements. To move a column simply click and hold on the heading and drag it across the screen and reposition. release the mouse.

1. Snapshot
2. Player Name
3. Heartbeat
4. Current playlist
5. DebPackage Linux/MSI Windows
6. Location
7. Check Content
8. Project
9. STR Zone – Screen name
10. Format
11. MacAddress
12. Update interval
13. Heartbeat interval
14. Log interval
15. ServerUrl
16. Return server Url
17. IP
18. VPN IP
19. CursorOn
20. Time Sync
21. Debug on/off
22. Connection type
23. ModemIP
24. Full screen True/false
25. Player Version
26. Playerstatus
27. GPS Position – More detail GPS information is available from the GPS Dashboard information
28. Presented on google maps Internet connection required.

 

Note: the list above is in no particular order as the user is able to re organize the columns to suit their requirements.

Scheduling the video segments

This lesson shows how to schedule the segment into the playlist.
Open the playlist that you want to add the segment to

Drag the segment from the clipboard to the playlist.

Searching for segment

Please Note: When you search for the segment on quick search – select library, you choose video segment…right at the bottom of the list then search.
You can drag the segments to the clipboard and schedule them from there.
The preview of the segment is active – you can see the segments if you open the original video.

Creating video segments

This lesson shows how to create video segments and schedule them in the playlist.

Open the video that you want to segment

Click on “Mark in” as pointed above – option 1 to start the segment.
Watch the time as the video plays and then click on option 2 ” Mark out” to stop it.
The click option 3 to save the segment – see below

Saving the segment

Fill in the required information.
Segment number is not compulsory but it is useful when working with segments.

Segment on clipboard

You will notice that after you save the segment it also shows on your clipboard as well as on your left hand side of the video.

Checking Content

This lesson is for making sure that the content uploaded is the correct standard for broadcasting

Checking media content format

1. Make sure the video uploaded is mp4
2. The video uploded mime – video / mp4
3. Tag type should be Video Master

Checking the transcoding of the media file

Before you can schedule media item into a playlist, you need to make sure that it has finished transcoding otherwise it will not broadcast properly or it won’t play at all.
Make sure that you see all the three items listed (MP4,LAN & ITV)