Hauppauge MediaMVP User manual

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Plug in the supplied power adapter to a wall socket, and plug the 6volt
power plug into the MediaMVP. Connect the MediaMVP (optional for
wMVP) via a Cat5 wired Ethernet network. Just run a Cat5 cable from
your access point and plug it into the LAN jack on the MediaMVP.
The MediaMVP will detect that the LAN jack has been plugged in and
will use a wired setup which only
requires the selection of the
MediaMVP Preferred Server.
If you cannot get beyond
Contacting DHCP Server, you are
not connected to your hub, router
or access point, or your cabling is
defective. If you are directly con-
necting your MediaMVP to a PC
and you get this message continu-
ously, then you might be using a
straight through Ethernet cable instead of the crossover cable.
If you cannot get beyond Contacting MediaMVP Bootserver, your PC
might be protected by a firewall, or the MediaMVP services have not
started on your PC. Turn off your firewall to see if this is causing this
problem, and if so, you need to reconfigure your firewall to allow the
MediaMVP to access your PC (see "If you have a Firewall on your net-
work" section).
MediaMVP/wMVP
Quick Installation Guide
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●MediaMVP/wMVP device with
SCART or Svideo/Composite
and S/PDIF outputs, the wMVP
(Wireless MediaMVP) version
has a built-in 802.11G transmit-
ter and receiver and an external
antenna.
●Stand.
●Ethernet cable 1.5 meters long.
You can purchase longer
Ethernet cables at most comput-
er retail stores. Cat5 cable, as
the cabling is commonly called,
is available to lenghts of 300 ft.
●Either SCART cable with com-
posite, S-Video and RGB com-
patibilities in addition to stereo
audio or Composite/Audio AV
cable (depending on model).
●Remote control transmitter with
2 AAA batteries.
●Installation CD-ROM with:
· Server application
· User Interface application
· Search for Media application
Contents of the MediaMVP/wMVP package
MediaMVP
wMVP
Connecting to a TV set
Note: Your TV set needs to have either a SCART or AV inputs. If
your TV only has RF inputs (normally from a TV antenna), then
you will need to use a Video-to-RF modulator (not supplied).
Using the supplied SCART or AV cable, connect one end to the Media
MVP and connect the other end to the SCART or AV Input on your TV
set.
On your TV set
To display video from the MediaMVP, you need to select the Video
Input on your TV set. Each TV set does this differently, but many TV
sets have a button marked “TV/Video" or "AV”. Pressing this button
normally switches from the TV tuner inside your TV set to the
Audio/Video inputs being used by MediaMVP.
If you cannot find a way to switch to Video Input on your TV set, refer
to the TV set manual.
1. Connecting MediaMVP to your TV set
When you have made all your network and TV connections, boot your PC
and insert into your CD-ROM drive the MediaMVP Installation CD-ROM.
The autorun should start automatically the installation. If not, navigate
to your CD-ROM drive and run MediaMVPSetup_###.exe (where ###
is the version number of the setup program).
This installation should take a few minutes.
2. Installing the MVP software on your PC
Plug in the supplied power
adapter to a wall socket, and plug
the 6volt power plug into the
wMVP. You will see the following
screens:
3b. Configuring for a wireless network
The first time you power up
wMVP, it needs to be setup for
your wireless network. You will
see a list of wireless Access
Points (SSID) which the
MediaMVP can “see”.
Use your MediaMVP remote control. Cursor down and choose your
Access Point. Press OK. In this example, we are using the Access Point
named WMVP.
If you have enabled an access code
(WEP) on your Access Point, you
need to enter the WEP key. Use the
keypad on the MediaMVP remote
control to enter the WEP key.
Make sure you press the right cur-
sor button on the Hauppauge
remote control for each WEP key
you enter.
When you have finished entering
the WEP key (if necessary), press
OK.
You will now be in the MediaMVP
Wireless Settings menu. Cursor
down to Apply and press OK.
After you press Apply, about 15 seconds later you will be in the main
Network Setup menu. Cursor to Server Profile and press OK.
You need to select the Computer Name where you have installed the
MediaMVP server software (most networks only have one server). Chose
your server and press OK.
Once you are back in the Network
Setup menu, cursor to Go and
press OK.
The wMVP will now load its appli-
cation software from the wireless
network.
It takes approximately 2 minutes to
boot the wMVP network from a
cold start.
The transmission of video over wireless networks requires the
54Mbit/sec 802.11G network. The biggest problem with playing wire-
less video on wMVP is making sure there are no 802.11B devices slow-
ing down your 802.11G network. There are several symptoms of a
wireless network not running at the full 54 Mbits/sec:
●you will see jerky video or stuttering video when playing Videos
●you will get a loss of connection to your media server when playing
videos and will see a message ‘Contacting server’
Make sure your network is really running 802.11G only. Most wireless
networks will back down to the slower 801.11B speed if there is any
device on the network which is running with 802.11B. For example, if
your laptop is running at 802.11B speeds (max datarate: 11Mbits/sec),
your entire network will run at the slower 802.11B speed and you will
not be able to play videos.
In order to optimize a wireless network for high speed video operation,
here are a few things you can do:
●choose another wireless channel: most Access Points come pro-
grammed to use channel 6 or 11, but you might find the default
channel is being used by other wireless Access Points in your area.
Therefore, change the setting on your Access Point to another chan-
nel. Changing channels is done through the setup program on your
Access Point.
●set your Access Point to 802.11G only. Some access points can run
at either 802.11B or 802.11G. This is also done via the setup program
on your Access Point.
●add another Access Point just for video: Access Points are relatively
inexpensive, and adding another Access Point to your network, with
a different channel number, might significantly increase your network
performance.
Microsoft has a good web page which talks about improving your
wirelss network performance:
www.microsoft.com/athome/moredone/wirelesstips.mspx
Optimizing your wireless network for wMVP
Most of the PC are secured by firewalls to prevent unauthorized access
to data in your PC.
If you use a firewall , you will need to configure the firewall to allow the
MediaMVP/wMVP to access a server application running on your PC.
ZoneAlarmPro Firewall
There are four firewall alert menus which pop up during the first use of
MediaMVP. For each of these alerts, you should allow access by press-
ing Yes. Examples of warning messages are in the Troubleshooting
section. To avoid warning messages from popping up each time you
use MediaMVP, select ‘Remember this answer’.
There are two MediaMVP services which will require access to your
network: HcwSMS.exe and MVPMedia.exe. Grant access to both of
these programs.
The built-in WindowsXP Firewall
Press Start and then go into Control Panel and then Windows
Firewall. Remove the cross “Do not allow exceptions” then go to
“Exception”. Press on “add a program” then on “browse”, go to
C:\Program Files\Hauppauge MediaMVP and select on of the 7 differ-
ent applications present in the folder (you can avoid UNWISE.EXE)
Repeat the operation for the 5 other applications.
4. If you have a Firewall on your network
3a. Configuring for a wired Ethernet network
After installing the MediaMVP/wMVP, there are two ways of finding
your media. You can either manually search for media from the TV set
using MediaMVPs Settings menu, or you can automatically search for
media using the MediaMVP Search for Media program on your PC
(recommended).
To start the Search Folders program from the PC, press Windows
Start, then Programs, and under Hauppauge MediaMVP run the
Search for Media program.
5. Search for Media
●Select the Media Type (music, videos, pictures).
●Select the Search In directory. Chose “My Computer” to look in all
directories, or browse your network if the Media you are looking for
is located on a other PC of your network.
●Press Search.
●Any directory with the media type selected will appear in the Search
Results box.
●Press on a directory and then press Add.
●Press Save before you move to another media type.
Note: right press your mouse in the Favorites list, then press
Add to manually add a specific path (for example: when you
already know where your music is on your disk drive, add
that directory). To delete a directory, right press your mouse on a
directory, then press Remove.
When you are finished searching for your media, press Save then
close the Search application. The directories selected will be listed
MediaMVP’s Video, Music and Picture menus.
Searching for media from the MediaMVP
You can also choose directories for music, digital pictures and videos
from the MediaMVP “Settings” menu. For instructions, in the section
entitled “MediaMVP menus”, look at the Settings menu.
Note: the first time you enter a directory, it takes a long time
(as long as several minutes) while thumbnail images are cre-
ated. The next time you enter the directory, the response will
be immediate. You can also turn off thumbnailing in the
Settings/Configuation menu.
MediaMVP Main menu (the Go menu)
7. MediaMVP menus
MediaMVP’s main menu guides you to Music, Videos, Pictures and
Radio. Also, through Settings, the user can navigate to media stored
on their PC.
Note: Your PC must be running and both the PC and
MediaMVP must be connected to the network before the
Main menu will be displayed on your TV set.
Note: To access the Main menu at any point, press “Go” on
the remote control.
Music menu
The Music menu will show MP3
files, WMA audio or Music
Playlists which are located in
selected directories on your PC.
You can play a music file (indicat-
ed by the music icon next to the
file name) by either pressing the
“Play” button or the “OK” button
on the remote control.
To navigate to a sub menu (indicated by the ‘folder’ icon), move the
cursor to the folder by using the arrow buttons on the Remote control
and press the “OK” button on the remote.
Playlists are indicated by the ‘playlist’ icon. To play a playlist, simply
move the cursor to a playlist and press “OK” on the remote control.
Supported playlists are: M3U, PLS, B4S, and ASX.
If you press the “Menu” button on the remote control, a pop up menu
will appear which will allow the sorting of the music by date or name,
or a random order of music files. A “Play all” option is available, which
will play all of the music located in the current directory.
To stop music, press the “Stop” button on the remote control.
To mute music, press the “Mute” button on the remote control.
You will be asked if you would like
MediaMVP to be allowed to sched-
ule a recording via a Hauppauge
WinTV. This is optional.
Note: If you shut down
MediaMVP with the green
‘Power’ button on your
MediaMVP remote control, the
next time you turn on MediaMVP
by pressing the green ‘Power’
button, MediaMVP should start
within a minute.
Note: if you need to reboot
MediaMVP, remove the power plug from MediaMVP, wait 5 sec-
onds and plug it back in.
Power button: the Power button will bring the MediaMVP into a stand-
by mode and will turn off the video output. It will not turn off the
MediaMVP completely. When you press the Power button again, the
MediaMVP will resume from standby and turn on its video output.
If you want to reset MediaMVP, you need to remove the power plug for
a few seconds, then reconnect it.
Go button: displays the Main menu. When in any menu, pressing the
Go button will bring up the Main
menu.
OK button: the OK button actions
any menu or command that is
currently selected.
Menu button: brings up the Sub
menu. For example, when in the
Music menu, pressing the Menu
button will bring up the sub menu
allowing the selection of Play all /
Sort by date / Sort by name /
Shuffle.
Back button: goes back to the
previous menu. For example, if
you have entered a directory and
you’d like to return to the previ-
ous directory, press Back.
Pause button: will pause the
music, video or slideshow cur-
rently playing. Press Play or Pause
again to continue playing from
where you left off.
Vol- and Vol+ buttons: you can
control the audio volume by using
internal hardware in the
MediaMVP. This means you can
adjust the audio volume without
having to use your TV sets’
remote control.
Skip ahead and Skip back: the Skip buttons are used to skip 6 items
ahead or backwards when in the media lists (music, videos and pic-
tures) or when viewing pictures. When playing videos, Skip advances
the video 30 seconds.
Quick Jump 0 to 9 buttons: When viewing lists of media, or when
playing videos, the number keys moves to 10% when you press the ‘1’
key, 20% when you press the ‘2’ key, etc.
When viewing lists, the number buttons will move you to positions
within the list. For example, if you are looking at a list of videos in the
Music menu, pressing the “5” button will move you to 50% of the way
through the list.
When watching a video, you can quickly skip through the video by
pressing the 0-9 buttons. When you press one of these keys, you will
skip to, for example, 10% of the video file when you press the '1' key,
20% of the video file when you press the '2' and so forth.
6. Remote control
Power
Standby
Green
button
Videos
menu
Music
menu
Fast
rewind
Skip
back
Play
Record
Volume
up/dn
Audio
mute
Go menu
You can connect the MediaMVP/wMVP directly to a PC or laptop via
Ethernet. Since the direct connection from a MediaMVP to a PC is very
fast, you will get maximum performance. To connect MediaMVP direct-
ly to your PC, you will need a 'crossover' cable which you can either
buy at a computer store or make yourself.
Here is how you connect the MediaMVP directly to your PC or laptop:
1.Purchase or make a crossover Ethernet cable. Examples of a
crossover cable are the Belkin CAT 5e Crossover Cable for computer-
to-computer connection
2.Connect one end of the crossover cable to the LAN port on the
MediaMVP, and the other end to the LAN port on your PC or laptop
3.Make sure the MediaMVP software is installed on your PC or lap-
top. See “Installing the MediaMVP software” section. Leave your PC
turned on.
4.Connect the MediaMVP to the TV set, and turn on the MediaMVP.
If using a wMVP:
You will be brought into the Network Setup menu on the TV set. On
the PC, you should see a Windows massage say 'Ethernet connection
found' and a minute or so later “Local Area Connection”.
On the MediaMVP, in the Network:
Setup menu, select ‘Wired’, and move to Apply and press OK. Once
you are back in the main Network Setup menu, move to Server Profile.
Select your server and press OK. Move to Go! and press OK.
3c. Connecting directly to laptop or PC
Menu
Stop
Pictures
menu
Fast
forward
Skip
ahead
Pause
Quick
Jump
0 - 9
Select your language and click
OK.
Close any other applications that
may be running and click NEXT.
Enter the user name and password
of the windows user account you
are currently using (needed to
allow the MVP to schedule a
recording).
Click Yes to continue.
Click Finish to end the installation
process.
You will be asked to press OK
within 3 seconds to enter the
wireless setup menu otherwise
the unit will boot with the default
or previously setup options.

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Settings menu
Directories for Music, Videos, Pictures and Internet radio
The Settings menu is where you
can chose the directories on your
PC where your Music, Video and
Pictures media are stored.
Also, the Settings menu has a
Configuration menu where you
can set the video format (NTSC or
PAL), video size (4:3 or 16:9), and
flicker reduction (none, low, medi-
um, high) for your TV set.
When you enter the Settings:Music, Settings:Video or Settings:Pictures
menus, you will see a listing of directories (such as My Documents)
and drives (disk drives, floppy drives or CD-ROM drives) on your PC.
To find media within a drive, scroll down to the directory (C:\ for exam-
ple) and then press the OK button on your remote control. This will
bring the contents of the selected directory onto your TV screen. To
select subdirectories, scroll down to the subdirectory and hit the OK
button. You will see if the media type you are looking for (music,
videos, pictures) exists in the directory chosen by having any existing
media listed.
To add a directory, hit the green button on the remote.
If you would like to delete a directory from the list you see when enter-
ing Videos, Music or Pictures from the Main menu, hit the red button
on the remote.
Configuration menu
Video thumbnails
In the Configuration menu, you can turn thumbnails on or off.
Thumbnails are small images of your digital pictures or a small image
taken from the first frame of a video when browsing through lists of
Videos or Pictures. Thumbnails are only viewable if your PC is running
Windows XP and has suitable MPEG decoders installed.
Note: if your PC slows down when viewing directories of
Vidoes or Pictures, you should turn Thumbnails off.
Flicker filter
The flicker filter removes flickering which might appear on some TV
sets when displaying text and pictures. High end TV sets can use the
filicker filter turned off, while normal TV sets might look better if flicker
filter is set to medium or high. There are four settings: off, low, medi-
um, high.
Scheduling a WinTV recording from MediaMVP
MediaMVP has the ability to set up a scheduled recording using a
Hauppauge WinTV in the PC server. This sets up a recording session
using WinTV-Scheduler.
The format of the recording is set by the WinTV application. For exam-
ple, if you have a WinTV-PVR-150 in your PC and want to record using
DVD-LongPlay, you need to have set the WinTV application to record
using DVD-LongPlay.
Here are the requirements to record:
●your PC needs to have a a WinTV product installed
●you need to have password permission to record on your PC
●your PC needs to have the WinTV-Scheduler installed
The MediaMVP scheduler can be
found in the Settings menu. Go to
Settings:Scheduler.
If you have no recordings sched-
uled, you will see a message
“There are no scheduled record-
ings”. Press the green button on
your remote control to add a
scheduled record item.
Use the arrow keys to move to the
fields in ‘Schedule Item’. When
you are finished setting up your
recording, press the green button
on your remote.
Video is jerky when watching over a wireless network:
The wMVP should be able to play “DVD Standard Play” videos
(8Mbits/esec) smoothly over an 802.11G network. If your video is jerky,
your network is not running at 802.11G. See ‘Tips on optimizing your
wireless network for MediaMVP’ for suggestions on improving your
network speed.
MediaMVP does not display the Main menu:
In order to display the Main menu, MediaMVP needs to be able to
“talk” to the PC which has the MediaMVP software installed.
There are several things which might cause the MediaMVP not to be
able to “talk” to the PC:
●your PC is not turned on. MediaMVP requires the PC to be turned on
to operate. Make sure your PC is not in standby mode.
●The network cable is not connected to either the PC or the
MediaMVP.
●The network router is not turned on.
●The PC and MediaMVP are not on the same network segment. Make
sure the PC and MediaMVP are connected to the same router, switch
or hub.
●A firewall is running on your PC, and is not allowing the MediaMVP
to access the PC.
MediaMVP does not respond to the remote control:
There are many reasons why the MediaMVP might not repond to
remote control commands. Most times, this is due to the PC becoming
busy executing a previous MediaMVP command.
If this happens, press the green Power button on the remote control.
This will suspend any MediaMVP operations on the PC. If you then
press the green Power button once more, MediaMVP will resume from
the Go menu.
Accessing the Video menu takes several minutes
(or more):
Thumbnails take a long time to generate, and might even stop your PC
from operating if there is a video defect in one of the movies in your
Videos directory. To solve this problem, turn OFF video thumbnails in
Settings/Configuration.
Troubleshooting
ZoneAlarmPro Firewall
There are four firewall alert menus which pop up during the first use of
MediaMVP. For each of these alerts, you should allow access by press-
ing Yes.
To avoid these warning messages from popping up each time you use
MediaMVP, select ‘Remember this answer’.
There are three MediaMVP services which will require access to your
network: HcwSMS.exe, MVPMedia.exe and MVPStart.exe. Grant
access to these programs.
Radio Interference Statement:
The WinTV boards have been tested and found to comply with the
limits for a Class B digital device, pursuant to part 15 of the FCC Rules.
These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against
harmful interference in a residential installation. This equipment gener-
ates, uses, and can radiate radio frequency energy and cause harmful
interference to radio communications. However, there is no guarantee
that interference will not occur in a particular installation. If this equip-
ment does cause harmful interference to radio or television reception,
which can be determined by turning the equipment off and on, the
user is encouraged to try to correct the interference by one or more of
the following measures:
●reorient or relocate the receiving antenna.
●increase the separation between the equipment and receiver.
●connect the equipment into an outlet on a circuit different from that
to which the receiver is connected.
●consult the dealer or an experienced radio/TV technician for help.
FCC ID: H90WINTV
CAUTION: Changes or modifications not expressly approved by the
party responsible for compliance to the FCC Rules could void the
user's authority to operate the equipment.
CE Statement: This equipment has been tested and complies with EN
55013, EN 55020 and IEC 801-3 part 3 standards.
FCC Statement
The device may not be disposed of with household rubbish. This
appliance is labeled in accordance with European Directive
2002/96/EG concerning used electrical and electronic appliances
(Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment - WEEE). The guideline
determines the framework for the return and recycling of used appli-
ances as applicable throughout the EU. To return your used device,
please use the return and collection systems available to you.
Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment
(WEEE)
2. Add radio stations to the MediaMVP media list
Now we need to add the Internet Radio station directory to the
MediaMVP media list so that the MediaMVP can "see" them. On your
Windows screen, press Start / Programs / Hauppauge MediaMVP
then Search for Media.
Under Media Type: choose Radio
Stations and press on Search.
After a few moments, you will see
a list of directories on your local
hard disks which have MediaMVP
links to Internet Radio stations.
Press on those directories you
would like to have MediaMVP list
on your TV set, press Add and
then press on Save.
3. Playing an Internet radio station on the MediaMVP
Press the Go button on the MediaMVP remote. Press on the Radio
button. If you have set up the directories (the paragraph above), you
will see a MyRadio listing. Go to this directory. In the directory, you will
see a list of Internet radio stations you have made links to.
To start playing an Internet radio station, use your remote control to
select the station and then press the Play button.
Note: If you press OK on a radio station and the audio does not
start within a few seconds, the radio station cannot be
accessed by the MediaMVP. One reason for this is that this
station cannot be accessed directly (it uses redirection to get to the
station). Another reson might be that the radio station does not
transmit audio in one of the formats MediaMVP can play (currently
MP3 and WMA).
How the Internet radio stations are named, stored and played by the
MediaMVP/wMVP:
When you are browsing Internet radio stations while in Internet
Explorer, and you right press on a link to an Internet radio station, the
MediaMVP application running on the PC makes a note of the URL the
link is pointing to. The MVP Radio Station pop up menu then is run,
allowing you to name the link and also put the link into a category (for
example: Jazz), and then a file is created in the My Radio directory
with that name. The file extension is .MVP, and within the file is the
URL of the radio station.
When you want to play a radio station, the MediaMVP application run-
ning on the PC opens that file, goes to the URL within the file and then
streams the audio over your network to the MediaMVP, where the
audio is then played out to your TV set.
If the file holds a link which is not valid (a link which does not directly
point to an Internet radio station), then the MediaMVP radio software
waits for about 1 minute before it senses that it cannot open the URL
and find a radio station. MediaMVP will then return to the Radio menu.
Here is how you can listen to Internet radio using MediaMVP:
1. Create a link to an Internet radio station on your PC
Open Internet Explorer and go to a page with Internet Radio stations.
Shoutcast is one example: www.shoutcast.com
Remember: you must be
selecting Internet radio
stations which can be
directly accessed by your
browser (and not via a redirect-
ed URL). There are many
Internet radio stations which do
not allow a direct link to the
station. These Internet radio
stations cannot be played by
MediaMVP.
Choose an Internet Radio station or program and use your RIGHT
mouse button to press on the button which allows you to listen to a
station (for example, the Tune In button in Shoutcast). When you press
your RIGHT mouse button, a Pop-Up Menu will appear. Choose Add to
MVP Favorite Radio Stations.
A window will pop up entitled
MVP Radio Station. You will be
asked to enter Radio station
name. You can do so if you like,
or leave the default. You can also
place the radio station in a catego-
ry (you will see these categories
on your TV set via the
MediaMVP). When you are fin-
ished naming your radio station,
press OK.
To rewind through the video, press the “Rewind” button on the
remote.
While playing videos, the audio volume can be adjusted through the
Vol+ and Vol - keys.
Tips for playing DivX videos
●simultaneous playback of DivX videos are not possible from multiple
MediaMVPs
●DivX playback requires a 2.2 GHz processor or faster in your PC. If
your PC is too slow to "transcode" the DivX video at its current frame
size, video will stutter or you will lose lip synch as you watch your
videos. One solution is to play smaller frame size DivX videos. For
example, if you see jerky video or stuttering audio with 640x480
DivX videos, try playing 320x240 size DivX videos instead.
●MediaMVP can scale DivX videos up to full screen, but can only do
this on videos of exactly 320x240 or 640x480. If your videos are
another format, they will be “letterboxed” on your TV set.
●After using the Fast-Forward and Fast-Rewind buttons a loss of
speech synchronization may occur.
●Your DivX videos need to have a .AVI file extension in their names
●Once DivX videos are playing, they will typically consume most of
the CPU power available on your PC. Therefore, you should not
expect to be able to do other tasks on your PC while playing DivX
videos.
●In some case, you can have better result reading DivX by selecting
NTSC output. Your TV set need to be NTSC compatible (see Settings
menu section)
Radio menu
MediaMVP allows you to listen to Internet Radio stations through your
TV set. MediaMVP accomplishes this by opening a special link on your
PC to the Internet radio station, and then “streams” the Internet audio
over your home network to the MediaMVP, where the audio is output
to the TV set. Note: your PC must be able to access the Internet.
To play an Internet radio station through the MediaMVP, the Internet
radio station must do two things:
●it must transmit audio in either MP3 or in WMA formats. Some radio
stations transmit using Real audio, which the MediaMVP cannot cur-
rently play.
●the Internet radio station must be accessable via a direct Internet
link. In other words, you need to be able to put a URL in Internet
Explorer and reach the Internet radio station directly without going
through any levels of indirection. An example of a website which has
direct links to Internet radio stations is Shoutcast.
Types of video files supported are
MPEG-1 and MPEG-2, from less
then 1 Mbit/sec up to 8 Mbits/sec,
or DivX movies. The maximum
data rate might be limited by your
local area network speed.
To navigate to a sub menu (indi-
cated by the ‘folder’ icon), cursor
to the folder by using the arrow
buttons on the Remote control
and press the “OK” button on the remote.
If you press the “Menu” button on the remote control, a pop up menu
will appear which will allow the sorting of the videos by date or name,
or a random order.
To return to the Video menu while watching a video, press the “Stop”
button on the remote control.
Use the Quick Jump 0 to 9 buttons to quickly move through a video.
When playing videos, the number keys moves to 10% when you hit
the ‘1’ key, 20% when you hit the ‘2’ key, etc.
To fast forward through a video, press the remotes “Fast forward” button.
To pause the video while playing, press the “Pause” button on the remote.
Note: Music playlists can also include video files, but you can
only play a video playlist from a directory listed in Music.
Playing WMA audio files
To play WMA files (Windows Media Audio) with the MediaMVP, the
installation of Windows Media Player 9 is required on the server PC.
MediaMVP will not play encrypted WMA files (those files which use
Windows DRM).
Playing a Picture Slideshow while listening to music
After selecting music, either an individual music title, a playlist or by
using Play All, you can play Picture files by pressing the “Go” button
on the remote control, move the cursor right to Pictures, and then
entering the Pictures menu by pressing the “OK” button.
To mute the audio while watching a slideshow, press the “mute” but-
ton on the remote.
Creating music playlists
You can either automatically create playlists in an application such as
Musicmatch, or you can manually create a playlist. If you want to cre-
ate manual playlists, you can use either M3U or ASX files.
When playing a music playlist, the Skip button on the remote control
will skip the current track and start playing the next track. Hitting one
of the Quick Jump buttons on the remote (the 0 to 9 buttons) will
move you to 10%, 20%, etc in your music playlist.
M3U is pretty simple to create. Here is an example. Just create the file
in any text editor and save it into your music directory with an M3U
extension.
C:\Documents and Settings\My Documents\My Music\Sara
Mclachlan - Take your .mp3
C:\MyMusic\04-R.E.M. _ Everybody Hurts.mp3
C:\MyMusic\11-Bruce Hornsby & The Range _ The Way It Is.mp3
C:\MyMusic\06-Pink _ Family Portrait.mp3
Here is an example of an ASX playlist. Just create the file in any text
editor and save it into your music directory with an ASX extension.
<ASX Version="3.0">
<ENTRY>
<REF HREF="C:\MyMusic\06-Pink _ Family Portrait.mp3"/>
</ENTRY>
<ENTRY>
<REF HREF="C:\Documents and Settings\My Documents\My Music\Sara
Mclachlan - Take your .mp3"/>
</ENTRY>
<ENTRY>
<REF HREF="C:\MyMusic\04-R.E.M. _ Everybody Hurts.mp3"/>
</ENTRY>
<ENTRY>
<REF HREF="C:\MyMusic\11-Bruce Hornsby & The Range _ The Way It
Is.mp3"/>
</ENTRY>
<ENTRY>
<REF HREF="C:\MyMusic\04-Avril Lavigne _ I´m With You.mp3"/>
</ENTRY>
</ASX>
Pictures menu
The Pictures menu will show JPG, JPEG, BMP or GIF files which are
located in selected directories on your PC. You can play a picture file
(indicated by the thumbnail of the picture) by either pressing the “Play”
button or the “OK” button on the remote control.
To navigate to a sub menu (indicated by the ‘folder’ icon), move the
cursor to the folder by using the arrow buttons on the Remote control
and press the “OK” button on the remote.
If you press the “Menu” button on
the remote control, a pop up
menu will appear which will allow
the sorting of the pictures by date
or name, or a random order.
“Play slideshow” will play a
slideshow of all of the pictures
located in the 13 current directory.
To return to the Pictures menu while viewing a picture, press the
“Back” button on the remote control.
While running a slideshow, you can press “Pause” to pause the
slideshow. Hit either “Pause” again or “Play” to resume the slideshow.
When viewing pictures, the Skip ahead button on the remote control
will move 6 pictures forward, while the Skip back button will skip back
6 pictures.
Videos menu
The Videos menu will show MPEG-1, MPEG-2 or DivX videos which
are located in selected directories on the PC. You can play a video file
(indicated by the video icon or the video thumbnail) by either pressing
the “Play” button or the “OK” button on the remote control.