Sony NSP-1 Operation instructions

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Sony NSP-1 / BZNP-D1 Tutorials
Revision 1.10 2/11/2005

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Contents
1. Scope
2. NSP-1 related products
3. Update NSP-1 and BZNP-D1 when necessary
4. Equipment and Configuration
5. Setup of NSP-1
6. Setup of BZNP-D1
7. Ingest content
8. Create a playlist
9. Scheduling
10. Content Production guidelines
11. FAQ
12. Appendix
(A) Video file conversion with Canopus ProCoder Express
(B) Video file conversion with Discreet Cleaner XL

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1. Scope
This document describes basic usage of Sony NSP-1 "Digital Signage Player" and BZNP-D1 software.
Please contact "The Product Operations Support Center (POSC)" at [phone] about product related
questions. Please download sample content “Content4Tutorials.zip” from www.sony.com/nsp1.
2. NSP-1 related products
Product Name SRP1Description
NSP-1 $1,995 NSP-1 and BZNP-D1 software with 1 player license
BZNP-D1EXD $995
BZNP-D1 software with 10 player license and Canopus ProCoder
Express software
BZNP-DP10 $500 Additional 10 player license
BZNP-DP50 $1,000 Additional 50 player license
Sony NSP-1 is a network appliance (hardware) to play back video, graphic and text content.
Sony BZNP-D1 is system software to ingest content, create a playlist, schedule play out, distribute content and
monitor status. BZNP-D1 can manage up to 210 units of NSP-1. BZNP-D1 software can be purchased as
BZNP-D1EXD, a package product that consists of BZNP-D1 software, 10 player license and Canopus
ProCoder Express software.
Canopus ProCoder Express software can encode almost all types of video file to MPEG2 file that is
compatible with NSP-1.
When you purchase BZNP-D1EXD, you will receive a key code for 10 player license. If you need to manage
more than 10 NSP1s, you can add licenses by purchasing BZNP-DP10 (additional 10 player license) and/or
BZNP-DP50 (additional 50 player license).
3. Update NSP-1 and BZNP-D1 when necessary
This document is described based on NSP-1 (version 2.01) and BZNP-D1 (version 2.01).
Latest firmware of NSP1 and BZNP-D1 software can be downloaded from the following web site.
www.sony.com/nsp1
Please refer to a release note for details.
1as of 12/23/2004

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4. Equipment and Configuration
4.1 Number of NSP-1 and software license
Here is a sample of required software license and number of NSP1
# of NSP-1 BZNP-D1EXD BZNP-DP10 BZNP-DP50
1 0 *200
2-10 1 0 0
11-20 1 1 0
21-60 1 0 1
61-110 1 0 2
111-160 1 0 3
161-210 1 0 4
4.2 Sample of system configuration and required equipment
Here is a sample of configuration for a small system.
PC (Hardware)
General spec Nothing special
Graphics/Sound card Microsoft DirectX compatible card is recommended
PC (OS)
OS Microsoft Windows XP professional *3
Direct X Microsoft DirectX 9.1 or later is required *4.
PC (Software)
2BZNP-D1 software w/ 1 player license comes with NSP1, though Canopus ProCoder Express software is not included.
3Sony does not guarantee, but BZNPD1 may run on Windows 2000 when gdiplus.dll is installed.
4How to check the version of DirectX
1. Click START button on Windows
2. Select RUN...
3. Type dxdiag, and click OK
4. Version number will be displayed at the System tab

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Web browser Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 or later is recommended.
Windows Media Player Microsoft Windows Media Player version 9 or later is recommended
MPEG2 encoding
software
MPEG2 encoding software is required to utilize video file. Sony
certified followings.
- Canopus ProCoder Express 5
- Canopus ProCoder V2.0
- Discreet Cleaner XL
Network
100BT router/switch/hub Nothing special
Ethernet cable Regular straight cable to connect PC and NSP1 via router/switch/hub
Cross over cable to connect PC and NSP1 directly
Display for NSP1
Display Any kind of display with VGA (HD15) interface such as Plasma display, LCD, or CRT monitor. NSP1 supports following resolutions.
VGA, WVGA (848x480), SVGA and XGA
Display cable VGA cable (HD15)
RS232C cable This is optional. RS232C cable is utilized to control a display.
5Canopus ProCoder Express is included in BZNPD1EXD

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5. Set up NSP-1
You need to do followings using web browser.
•Confirm firmware version
•Set IP address of NSP1 if necessary
•Set Date and Time
•Set Screen resolution
Change Network settings of PC
- Start / Settings / Network Connections
- Right click “Local Area Connection” and Select
properties
- Select Internet Protocol (TCP/IP), Click
Properties
- Select “Use the following IP address”
- Enter “192.168.0.100” at IP address
- Enter “255.255.255.0” at Subnet mask
- Click OK, Click OK
- Start / Run…
- Type “cmd” and click OK then “cmd.exe”
window opens
- Type “ipconfig” and Confirm IP address and
Subnet mask
Confirm network connection
- In the cmd.exe window,
- Type ping 192.168.0.1
- Confirm “Reply from 192.168.0.1”
- When ping fails, please refer to this
foot note6.
Launch Web browser and connect to NSP1
- Launch Web browser such as Internet Explore
- Enter http://192.168.0.1:4980 at the address
- Then a login window is popped up
- Type “NSP1admin” at User name (case sensitive)
- Type “NSP1admin” at Password (case sensitive)
- Click OK
6“192.168.0.1” is factory default. If you are not sure the IP address of NSP1, here is a tip.
A) Change Dip SW-1 at the rear panel “ON”, and then turn on NSP1. IP address will be displayed after “Loading3…..”.
Then you can change Dip SW-1 “OFF”, and NSP1 resumes booting process.
B) Change Dip SW-3 at the rear panel “ON”, and then turn on NSP1. NSP1 will boot with an address of “192.168.0.1”.

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Confirm firmware version of NSP1
- Click “System Settings”
- Check the Software Version
- If the Software Version is lower than 2.01, please
update NSP1 referring to a release note at
www.sony.com/nsp1,
Set Date and Time
1. Set Date and Time 7
2. Click Send
Set Display resolution and orientation
1. Set Display settings
Select resolution from VGA, WVGA, SVGA,
XGA and composite 8. WVGA (848x480) is
recommended to drive a plasma display because
square pixel ratio makes it easy to produce
content.
Select Orientation from Landscape or Portrait
(WVGA / Landscape is assumed in the
following trainings.)
2. Click Send
Reboot NSP1
1. Click Reboot
2. Click Reboot
7Time Zone does matter only when NTP is utilized to adjust date and time automatically over network. Currently NSP1
doesn’t support “Daylight Saving Time”. Followings are for normal time. -5 (EST). -6 (CST), -8 (PST).
8There is no simultaneous video output on “Composite video signal” and “Analog RGB - VGA (HD15) signal”

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6. Set up BZNP-D1
6.1 Install BZNP-D1 software
BZNP-D1 can be downloaded from www.sony.com/nsp1. BZNPD1 can control only one NSP1 unless a key
code is installed. A 10 players’ key code comes with BZNPD1EXD. Install it as followings.
1. Launch BZNP-D1 software
2. Select Help / License settings from the menu
3. Click Add license
4. Type the key code and click OK
5. Click OK
Install Canopus ProCoder Express, if you purchased BZNPD1EXD. This software installs DirectShow
compatible MPEG2 codec software that is important to ingest MPEG2 video content.
6.2 BZNP-D1 GUI
6.3 Set up BZNP-D1
Following setups are required on BZNPD1 software before you do a regular operation.
•Register NSP1
•Create a group
•Setup a group
•Create a template
•Assign NSP1 to a group
6.3.1 Register NSP1
1. Select Setup / Group Setup
2. Click “New NSP1”
3. Enter “NSP-A” at NSP1 name
4. Enter “192.168.0.1” at IP address
5. Enter “NSP1user” at Password and Retype
Password if those are blank
6. Click Check Connection if the NSP1 is online
7. Click OK

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6.3.2 Create and set up a group
1. Click “New Group” in Group Setup window
2. Enter “Tutorials” at “Group name”
3. Select “10:00:00” and “18:00:00” at Playout Time
4. Leave “00”00” at Sleep Time
5. Select “WVGA” at Screen Resolution and “Landscape”
at Screen Orientation (These must match to settings on
NSP1.)
6.3.3 Create a Template
1. Click “Template Settings” in Edit Group window
2. Type “Tutorials” at Template
3. Enter following numbers at X, Y, W and H
4. Click OK in “Template Settings” window
5. Click OK in “Edit Group” window
6.3.4 Assign NSP1 to a group
1. Click “Tutorials” on the right side in
the “Group Setup” window
2. Click “NSP-A” on the left side
3. Click Add
4. Close this window
6.4 Group
In order to simplify operations, creating playlists, scheduling playout and distributing content are based on
groups. If you do NOT purchase BZNPD1EXD and install a license, you can create only one group.
6.5 Template
NSP1 can play back several types of content with layered. In order to make authoring easy, you can create a
template of content arrangement in advance, and you can apply it to each group of NSP1 as a default.
It is not mandatory to create a template and assign it to a group, because you can change display arrangement
while you create a playlist, but you will realize that a template can save your time to create a playlist.

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7. Ingest content
The following procedures are based on WVGA / Landscape setting. Please refer to chapter 5 and 7 for details.
Sample content that is utilized in these trainings can be downloaded as “Content4Tutorials.zip” from
www.sony.com/nsp1. Please unzip the file onto your local hard disk drive.
You can ingest content by dragging it from Explorer to upper window of BZNPD1 software. Please note that
BZNPD1 software does NOT copy content but creates a link to the original file. So if you have content on CD-
ROM or DVD-ROM, it is suggested to copy them to a local hard disk drive in advance.
Ingest Video content
1. Select Video tab
2. Drag AWSG500.mpg and J30.mpg files in video folder from Explorer and drop to the Content
Management window
3. In case Duration shows “00:00:00”9, double click the duration and enter “00:00:15”
Preview Video content
1. Right click the video content and select “Send to NSP1 and Preview”
Ingest Graphics content
1. Select Graphics tab
2. Drag BG-AWSG.bmp, BG-HDV.bmp, BG-NH-A.bmp and BG-NH-B.bmp files in Graphics folder
from Explorer and drop to the Content Management window
Ingest Flash content
1. Select Flash tab
2. Drag LED_CLOCK.swf file in Flash folder from Explorer and drop to the Content Management
window
9Duration may show “00:00:00” in the following case.
A) Direct Show compatible MPEG2 codec is not installed. (Canopus ProCoder Express includes this.).
B) Direct Show incompatible codec has higher "merit" value
C) MPEG4 (.mp4) file is ingested