MAG Design PocketVJ User manual

User Manual
Rev.A
© 2018

Copyright
© 2018 MAG Design
All rights reserved.
Under the copyright la s, this manual may not be copied,
in hole or in part ithout the ritten consent of the o ner.
Just ask.
This User guide is published by MAG Design ithout any arranty.
Improvements and changes to this User guide necessitated by typographical errors,
inaccuracies of current information, or improvements to
programs and hard are, may be made by MAG Design at any time and ithout notice.
Such changes ill, ho ever, be incorporated into ne editions of this User guide.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
FIRST OF ALL....................................................................5
CONNECTING / Remote Control.......................................6
FILE MANAGEMENT.........................................................7
FILE MANAGEMENT.........................................................8
CONNECTING / Remote Control......................................10
VIDEO CONTROL............................................................11
HPlayer_OSC...................................................................12
SYNC see tutorial: http:// .vimeo.com/177300125......13
SYNC over Wi.................................................................13
STREAMER MOVIE PLAYBACK CONTROL...................14
IMAGE PLAYBACK CONTROL / PRESENTER...............15
MAPPING check tutorial: https://vimeo.com/185559286. .16
AUX..................................................................................17
SCHEDULER / TIMER https://vimeo.com/191798129......18
AUTOSTART.....................................................................19
AUTOSTART / SCREENSHARING..................................20
AUTOSTART / TCPSYPHON............................................21
DISPLAY...........................................................................22
PIWALL More info on: http:// .pi all.co.uk/.................23
SYSTEM...........................................................................25
SYSTEM...........................................................................26
SSH ( ith FUGU on OSX)................................................27
SSH ( ith FileZilla on Win)...............................................28
Use this to upload les, I recommend on all platforms!....28
SAMBA https://vimeo.com/227134211..............................29
LOADING FROM USB TO INTERNAL............................30
CREATE h.264 movies ith Handbrake...........................31
CREATE h.264 movies ith MPEG Streamclip................32
CREATE h.264 movies ith Blackmagic Fusion®............33
CREATE h.264 movies ith ffmpegX®.............................34
CREATE h.264 movies ith inFF®................................35
CREATE h.264 movies ith Vimeo®................................36
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TCP Control Commands..................................................37
TROUBLESHOOTING......................................................38
MORE...............................................................................43
PRODUCTION.................................................................44
THIS MANUAL IS NOT UP TO DATE! And will never be...I guess...
I AM SPENDIN MORE TIME IN MAKIN THE PLAYER BETTER THAN WRITIN ON THIS DOCUMENT.
THERE ARE SOME VIDEO TUTORIALS ONLINE WHICH MI HT HELP YOU A LOT.
If you love writing on documents, feel free to help me out.
Office programs drive me kind of crazy… :-)
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FIRST OF ALL
Thank you for buying the PocketVJ.
You bought a hi-quality, made ith love, opensource product. You are fantastic!
1. Plugin your screen or projector.
2. Plugin the po er.
Keep in mind that your movie le must be encoded ith the h.264 codec, other ise it might not run
smoothly (see page 32 ho to do this).
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CONNECTIN / Remote Control
1. Make sure your PocketVJ is running. If it its brand ne , a testmovie should be
displayed on your screen.
2. On your computer, phone or tablet, go to the Wi symbol and connect to your
PocketVJ’s Wi.
Its named vj100 , or vj109 , or something similar starting ith vj and 3 digits .
3. Enter the Pass ord for the WiFi connection (you should have it, if not, ask me)
and ait until the connection is etablished.
4. Open your Webbro ser (we recommend oogle Chrome!) and enter into the
adress bar:
http:// 2.0.0.100
(depending on your Wi name, you might enter 2.0.0.*** and the 3 digits from the
Wi name.
5. You should see the ControlPanel
Note:
Alternatively you can connect your PocketVJ to a ired net ork. If you did not order a special IP address, make
sure your router is congured to 192.168.2.1. Then you can access it via ebbro ser ith the address:
192.168.2.***
If you lost the sticker ith the IP address, go to AUX in the Control Panel and click ‘Display IP...’
There are kno n issues ith Firefox/ Safari / IE Webbro sers. Just use Google Chrome Webbro ser!
Fig.01: ControlPanel
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FILE MANA EMENT
1. Hit ‘STOP’ in the Control Panel.
2. Click ‘Filebrowser ’.
3. There opens up a ne tab ith an eXtplorer indo .
4. Upload and manage your les in the ‘internal’ folder, be patient hile uploading!
Use oogle Chrome® you ill see the upload progress in the lo er left corner.
For uploading large les (more than 500MB) e recommend using SSH or copy from USB.
Do not disconnect the po er hile uploading content, it can destroy your PocketVJ!
Make sure that you don’t have empty spaces and special characters in your le-
name, if you do have, manually rename them or use the super cool Filname-Fixer
function after upload is nished. This ill conform all lenames.
Notes:
- Use the folder structure as given, videos into video folder, images into images etc.
- If you are not able to up/do nload les, make a Factory Reset to x.
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FILE MANA EMENT
MOUNT USB / EJECT USB
Is needed to mount an usb stick hen plugging in after boot
FILEBROWSER
Opens the eXtplorer lebro ser.
DISK SPACE
Sho the used and free diskspace on internal storage.
CLEAN HIDDEN FILES
When you upload les from Mac Computer via Samba, you ill get unusable .dot-
les ritten to the storage, ith the ‘Clean’ function you can remove them.
MOVIE INFO
Displays codec and resolution infos of stored movies.
FILENAME-FIXER
Fixes your lenames and removes empty spaces and special characters.
CONFORM IMAGES
Converts all images*.jpg and resizes them to 1920 x 1080pixel.
(This can also be helpful if your *.jpg les have a huge resolution and ill not be displayed on a HD screen).
Depending on amount, format and size of your images, this may take a hile.
When you see the message: “FINISHED! all images converted to jpg and resized to
HD” the task is done.
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MAPPING CONVERTER
Converts exported .svg from your mapping soft are e.g. Mapio, MadMapper.
Quads and triangles are supported, save the .svg as convert.svg in the converter
folder, then click this button. It ill be stored in mapper setting 1.
See tutorial here: https://vimeo.com/259005306
MOVIE CODEC INFO
Displays codec info of stored movies.
MOVIE RESOLUTION
Displays resolution info of stored movies.
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CONNECTIN / Remote Control
1. Make sure your PocketVJ is running. If it its brand ne , a testmovie should be
displayed on your screen.
2. On your computer, phone or tablet, go to the Wi symbol and connect to your
PocketVJ’s Wi.
Its named vj100 , or vj109 , or something similar starting ith vj and 3 digits .
3. Enter the Pass ord for the WiFi connection (you should have it, if not, ask me)
and ait until the connection is etablished.
4. Open your Webbro ser (we recommend oogle Chrome!) and enter into the
adress bar:
http:// 2.0.0.100
(depending on your Wi name, you might enter 2.0.0.*** and the 3 digits from the
Wi name.
5. You should see the ControlPanel
Note:
Alternatively you can connect your PocketVJ to a ired net ork. If you did not order a special IP address, make
sure your router is congured to 192.168.2.1. Then you can access it via ebbro ser ith the address:
192.168.2.***
If you lost the sticker ith the IP address, go to AUX in the Control Panel and click ‘Display IP...’
There are kno n issues ith Firefox/ Safari / IE Webbro sers. Just use Google Chrome Webbro ser!
Fig.01: ControlPanel
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