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System Overview
The Sony BZNP-100 Network Player Management Software is designed to manage
systems that send audio and visual content, such as commercial videos played in public
places or educational and training videos in a company, to Sony NSP-100 Network
Players (referred to as "network players") via a network, then plays them.
The system uses video, graphics, and text materials. Unlike other authoring software, it
manages video, graphics, and text materials separately, rather than combining them to
make a piece of video material, and sends them together with a playlist.
This feature allows you to quickly replace some pieces of graphics and text materials
that are small in data size, or to modify the position of video and/or text on the graphics
material or produce new combinations of the materials simply by sending a new
playlist. The system enables you to fully utilize your audio and visual content for
flexible playout.
There are the following software products:
• BZNP-100
manages up to 100 network players.
• BZNP-100LE
is supplied with the NSP-100, and is a subset of this software which manages only
one network player. There are also some "limitations for BZNP-100LE" described
below.
The BZNP-100 software includes the following two applications so that you can select
one according to your needs:
The Setup dialog box is used to switch between these two applications.
• Presentation Application
Used for presentations. This application creates and manages the playlists whose
playout is controlled by the remote controller of the network player.
Externally triggered playout starting and automatic starting upon NSP-100 power-on
are also supported.
• Scheduling Application (Not included in the BZNP-100LE)
Used for automatic playout. This application creates and manages the playlists
whose playout is carried out automatically at a specified date and time.
Either application can handle the following four kinds of materials:
• Video
AVI and MPEG2 files, and Sony VSR-2000/2000A video files should be converted
to the NSP format, which is the only format the network players can play.
• Graphics
Bitmap and JPEG files should be converted to the NSP format, which is the only
format the network players can display.
• Text
Data to be superimposed on a video or graphics item should be created as text.
The system enables you to use a bitmap file to be superimposed as a piece of "text,"
too.
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