DMP-300 Digital Media Player Users Guide Version: Date: Doc Number: V1.8 10 Oct 2009 DMP020 AVIONICS INNOVATIONS, INC. 2450 Montecito Road Ramona, CA 92065 Phone (760) 788-2602 Fax (760) 789-7098 www.avionicsinnovations.
Revision History Version Date Description V1.0 05-Jun-01 Initial Release SB V1.1 10-Jun-02 First production release SB V1.2 30-Jul-02 Added info on GPS triggering SB V1.3 11-Sep-02 -Clarified single-level restore of interrupted tracks. -Added persistent power up music track. -Added remote operations of PAUSE input. SB V1.4 14-Jan-03 Added “Jog Mode” to Triggers 6 and 7 SB - By Added Triggers 1 and 2 for remote volume control in “Jog Mode”. Changed timer to 5 sec.
Table of Contents Revision History ..................................................................................................2 Table of Contents................................................................................................3 Overview..............................................................................................................5 File Types .....................................................................................................6 Speech Files................
Running CardPrep .....................................................................................12 To add Speech Files: .................................................................................12 To add Music Files: ....................................................................................13 Adding Music Files Individually..................................................................13 Adding a Folder of Music Files ................................................................
Overview The DMP-300 Digital Media Player is a self-contained unit which stores and replays prerecorded audio tracks. The audio tracks are encoded in “Motion Picture Expert Group (MPEG) Level 3” format, commonly referred to as “MP3”. Audio files are stored in a removable CompactFlash™ memory card which is prepared and installed by the user. Audio tracks are selected via a single rotary pushbutton on the front panel of the DMP300.
File Types Each audio file contained in the DMP-300 memory card must be designated as either “speech” or “music”. While the actual audio content is irrelevant, this designation controls how each file is presented on the DMP-300 display. Speech Files Every “Speech” file has a title and a language, as well as trigger and display attributes. Speech files may be selected individually for playback either from the front panel, via an external trigger, or automatically at a particular GPS position.
Display Turning the knob CCW or CW will scroll left or right through the top-level menu. The toplevel menu consists of (from left to right): ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ “CHOOSE LANGUAGES” (click for language selection menu) (title of SPEECH FILE 1) (click to play) (title of SPEECH FILE 2) (click to play) (etc., for each speech file on the card) “CONTINUOUS MIX” (click to play random from all music tracks) (name of MUSIC LIST 1) (click to select music tracks) (name of MUSIC LIST 2) (click to select music tracks) (etc.
TO PLAY A SPEECH FILE: Rotate the knob CW or CCW until the title of the desired file is displayed. If “RETURN TO MENU” is displayed at either position, push the knob and then rotate fully CW or CCW. Push the knob to begin playback. The file will be played once for each language enabled, if the file exists in those languages. The display indicates that playback is in progress. This display can either be elapsed playback time, or can be cycling user prompts.
TO CHANGE SELECTIONS WHILE PLAYING: Simply make your new track selection and push the knob (note that if the knob is not turned for four seconds while you are selecting the new track, the display will revert to the “PLAYING” screen). The currently-playing audio will fade down and your new selection will begin. If so configured in CardPrep, the original track will resume when the new track has finished.
If a track is playing, pushing the remote button will cause playback to pause. Pushing again will cause playback to resume. The external pushbutton works in parallel with the front panel knob: playback may be paused with one and resumed with the other. If no track is playing, you can turn the front panel knob until a desired track is displayed. Then, at some later point, you can push the external button to select the displayed track and to start playback.
Volume Control When Jog Mode is enabled on a card, Triggers 1 and 2 are also redefined to control the volume on the DMP-300. Each activation of Trigger 1 simulates a push-and-turn counterclockwise, i.e. a decrement of volume. In a similar way, each activation of Trigger 2 simulates an increment of volume. Volume may also be controlled normally via the front panel knob. Creating MP3 Files CardPrep allows you to prepare existing MP3 audio files, but it does not provide facilities to create them.
Preparing a Memory Card with CardPrep Installing DMP-300 CardPrep The DMP-300 CardPrep software may be distributed on either the CompactFlash™ card included with the DMP-300, on a CD-ROM or downloaded from the Avionics Innovations website at www.avionicsinnovations.com. To install the software, simply run SETUP.EXE and follow the prompts. Running CardPrep CardPrep displays a simple menu bar across the top, and five different selection tabs. Click on each tab to bring up the associated section.
3. Click on a title in the large box under (1), then click on a language in the large box under (2). Next, click on the box under (3) and either type in the path or click Browse to identify the MP3 file which corresponds to the selected title and language. Repeat this procedure for every title and language combination for which a track is to be added. 4. Click on the up and down arrows next to each box to move a highlighted selection within the box.
1. Click on the empty box under (1), type the name of the desired Music List, and press Add. Repeat for all remaining Music Lists. 2. Click on the empty box under (2), type the first music track to be displayed, and press Add. Repeat for all remaining music tracks. 3. Click on a Music List in the large box under (1), then click on a Music Track in the large box under (2).
Adding an Exported Playlist of Music Files Most MP3 manager applications allow you to create and manage Playlists. A Playlist is simply a list of MP3 tracks that you would like to group together. You could create a separate playlist for each CD in your collection (“White Album”, for example), or you can create a playlist with tracks from many different sources (“Night-Flying Music”, for example). MP3 managers such as WinAmp and MusicMatch save their playlists in either “.txt” or “.
To Select Triggers or Attributes: The “Triggers and Attributes” tab allows you to select either Speech or Music tracks, and then to specify the following information: ♦ Discrete Triggers Click on the check box next to any available discrete trigger to associate that track with the corresponding trigger. More than one trigger may be assigned to a single track. Clicking on “View” will display the track which has been associated with that trigger.
selected as “Trigger First Time Only”. On the other hand, the same tour may desire that a “falling water” soundtrack be played whenever the flight approaches a waterfall, so this waypoint would be selected as “Trigger Every Time”. See “Notes on GPS Triggering” on page 22 for detailed information. Be sure to click on “Apply” when entering or changing any GPS trigger data. ♦ Endless Looping This attribute is only available for music tracks.
To Select Setup Items: ♦ Default Languages Enabled Select and highlight one or more languages to be enabled on power up. Note that this screen is potentially confusing: the desired language(s) must be highlighted to be selected. If none are highlighted, the list simply displays the languages on the card. ♦ Custom Card Titles Up to two lines of 16 characters each can be displayed on the DMP-300 after the initial screen on power up.
♦ Selecting Internal or External Chime The DMP-300 may be interfaced to an external cabin chime or tone generator. A chime will be sounded whenever a speech track is selected or triggered (selecting or triggering a music track will not sound a chime.) When sounding an external chime, the DMP-300 will pause for several seconds before starting to play the track, to allow the chime to finish. The exact length of this pause can be configured in Setup Mode.
To make changes to the text, simply click in a box on the right side, type in your new text and click “Save”. Use caution (and common sense) when making changes! Always refer to the original text in the left column to be sure you are not changing the intent of the text. As with all the other configuration settings in this section, any changes made here will only apply to this card. Inserting a different card will cause the unit to reload the configuration and clear the changes.
To Copy all Files and Settings to the Card: When you are ready to generate the actual memory card, click on the “Create Card” tab: CardPrep will run through your configuration settings and check for inconsistencies, such as languages with no associated speech tracks or empty music lists. Any inconsistencies will be displayed and described. The Create Card button will be disabled as long as any inconsistencies are flagged.
To Save or Open a Card File Your entire “workspace” can be saved to a card file (*.CRD) so that you can easily maintain multiple cards. Click on File in the menu bar at the top of the window, and then either Open, Save, or Save As as is typically used in most Windows applications. To Import a DMP-100 Card File DMP-300 CardPrep can import a card file previously created by DMP-100 CardPrep and intended for use in the DMP-100.
Notes on Interrupting and Restoring Audio Tracks If a new audio track is selected (either manually or via any trigger) while another track is playing, the DMP-300 can resume playing the interrupted track after the new one finishes. This will only occur, however, for the most recently interrupted track. Any previously interrupted tracks will not resume, and must be manually restarted if desired. An interrupted audio track will resume if the attribute “Resume or Cancel” is set accordingly.
2) A discrete trigger selects “Speech #14”. The music fades down, “Speech #14” plays to completion, and “Song #8” resumes where it left off (this is because “Song #8” is the most recently interrupted track). 3) Some time later, a GPS trigger selects “Speech #2”. Halfway through playback of “Speech #2”, another trigger interrupts it with “Speech #29”. 4) After completion of “Speech #29”, playback of “Speech #2” will resume where it left off. 5) After “Speech #2” completes, “Song #8” will not resume.
