Sony Bznp-D1 User Manual

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Select the files to be registered.
You can register more than one file simultaneously, 
provided they are in the identical category.
To select more than one file, hold down the Ctrl key 
and click the desired files in turn.
To select all the files in a range, hold down the Shift 
key and click the first and last files in the range.
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Move the selected files from the Explorer window to 
the BZNP-D1 window by a drag & drop operation.
The new material is added in the Content Management 
window.
The names of the files are shown as the titles, and the 
date of registration is shown in the date last modified 
column.
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Edit the types and titles of the registered material, if 
necessary.
Select a line, then click its Type or Title column, 
specify the type (up to 20 characters) or title (up to 40 
characters), and then press the Enter key.
On registration of an announce file (SDP file) for 
MPEG4 streaming video
NSP-1 players and the BZNP-D1 software support 
MPEG4 live streaming video. Playing a live streaming 
video on an NSP-1, unlike a normal video file whose 
playout starts from the beginning of the file, consists of 
displaying the contents played on the streaming server at 
that time, just like video and audio input to the VIDEO IN 
and AUDIO IN connectors of the NSP-1.
To register such a streaming video as a piece of video 
material, the following operation is required:
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Add the announce file (an SDP file with the .m4e file 
extension) on the Video tab of the Content 
Management window using a drag & drop operation.
Ask your supplier or Sony sales representative for 
details on how to obtain the appropriate announce file, 
as it varies depending on the streaming server used.
A new piece of video material appears in the Content 
Management window. “Live Streaming” is displayed 
in the Type column, and “00:00:00” is displayed in the 
Duration column.
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To specify the material duration, select the piece of 
material, then click its Duration column. This makes 
the column editable. Specify the desired duration, and 
then press the Enter key.
You can also leave the material duration as 
“00:00:00,” and specify the desired event duration 
after listing this streaming video in a playlist as an 
event.
To modify the duration of a video clip or Flash 
movie
When you drop a video clip or Flash file in the Content 
Management window, the BZNP-D1 checks its duration 
and displays it in the Duration column. You can modify 
this duration by selecting the line then clicking the 
Duration column, in the same way as the type and title 
columns.
Modification of the duration is useful in the following 
cases, when the actual duration and that the BZNP-D1 
software obtains are different:
• Duration shown in the Content Management window is 
“00:00:00.”
The BZNP-D1 software may not recognize the duration 
of a video clip when there is no DirectShow filter 
installed on the PC where the BZNP-D1 software is 
operating. It may not recognize the duration of a Flash 
movie, either, depending on the condition in effect when 
the Flash movie was created.
• The last few frames are not played.
As the BZNP-D1 software manipulates the materials in 
units of seconds, the very last frames of a video clip or 
Flash movie will not be played if there is a fraction in the 
Content tab selection buttons