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Contents
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1 Software Introduction ................................................................................................................................................................... 1
2 Getting Started............................................................................................................................................................................. 2
2.1 Preparing a PC ...................................................................................................................................................................... 2
2.2 Installing Software ................................................................................................................................................................. 2
2.3 Checking PC Configuration Options ...................................................................................................................................... 2
2.3.1 Windows Automatic Update ......................................................................................................................................... 2
2.3.2 Firewall ........................................................................................................................................................................ 3
2.3.3 Screen off and Sleep ................................................................................................................................................... 3

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2.3.4 Scaling Size and Multiple Displays .............................................................................................................................. 4

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2.3.5 UAC ............................................................................................................................................................................. 4

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2.3.6 Antimalware Service Executable.................................................................................................................................. 5

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2.3.7 Superfetch ................................................................................................................................................................... 5

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2.4 Connecting to Displays .......................................................................................................................................................... 6
2.5 Selecting Working Mode ........................................................................................................................................................ 6

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2.6 Creating Solutions ................................................................................................................................................................. 7

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2.7 Playing Solutions ................................................................................................................................................................... 8
3 Solution Management ................................................................................................................................................................ 10

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3.1 Creating Solutions ............................................................................................................................................................... 10

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3.1.1 Creating a Regular-Screen Solution .......................................................................................................................... 10

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3.1.2 Creating an Ultra-Long-Screen Solution .................................................................................................................... 13
3.2 Playing Solutions ................................................................................................................................................................. 17
3.3 Screen Monitoring ............................................................................................................................................................... 17

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4 Playback Management .............................................................................................................................................................. 18

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4.1 Setting Playback Window .................................................................................................................................................... 18

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4.2 Showing and Hiding Playback Window ............................................................................................................................... 18

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5 Play Logs ................................................................................................................................................................................... 19

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5.1 Querying Play Logs ............................................................................................................................................................. 19

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5.2 Exporting Play Logs............................................................................................................................................................. 19

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6 System Settings ......................................................................................................................................................................... 21
6.1 Switching Language ............................................................................................................................................................ 21

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6.2 Switching Working Mode ..................................................................................................................................................... 21
6.3 Setting Preferences ............................................................................................................................................................. 21

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6.3.1 Starting Playback ....................................................................................................................................................... 21

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6.3.2 Setting Shortcut of Showing and Hiding Playback Window ....................................................................................... 21

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6.4 Viewing User Manual........................................................................................................................................................... 21

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6.5 Checking for Updates .......................................................................................................................................................... 21
6.6 Submitting Feedback ........................................................................................................................................................... 22
6.7 Viewing Software Information .............................................................................................................................................. 22
7 FAQs .......................................................................................................................................................................................... 23
7.1 How to set the inbound firewall rules? ................................................................................................................................. 23
7.2 What video formats are supported in studio mode? ............................................................................................................ 24
7.3 Limitations on Cut-to-Display Windows for Regular Screens .............................................................................................. 25
7.4 Limitations on Playback Parameters for Ultra-long Screens................................................................................................ 25

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1 Software Introduction
ViPlex Express is a display content publishing management system for PC, which is installed in the Windows
operating system and allows you to edit solutions and play the solutions on LCD or LED displays. In async mode,
ViPlex Express is also used to control multimedia players. This document introduces you to the functions and
operations in studio mode.
ViPlex Express is part of the NovaStar cloud solution. On the startup page of studio mode, clicking Cloud Platform
on the left menu allows you to view the related information.

Two Working Modes

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This mode is applicable to synchronous playback.

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ViPlex Express sends solutions to multimedia players. The solutions will be stored in the multimedia players and
played according to their playback plans. This mode is applicable to the scenario when multimedia players load

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displays.

Professional Solution Editing

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ViPlex Express is designed with a professional solution editing function allowing you to edit solutions with various

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contents and complex schedules as required.

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Multiple pages

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A solution can be added with multiple pages that are played in order from top to bottom.

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Flexible layout

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number, coordinates, width, and height of windows based on your needs.
A variety of media

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On a page, you can add general windows, cut-to-display window, Office documents, images, videos, GIF, text,

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colorful text, digital clocks, analog clocks, timers, weather, RSS, streaming media and web pages.
Multiple properties

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Scheduling as you wish

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You can set a period and cycle for each page to play. The schedules of a page can be batch applied to other
pages. If the periods of several pages overlap, the pages will be played in order from top to bottom
Quick preview
Clicking the preview button allows you to preview the current page. The preview window refreshes immediately
when you move on to another page.

All-round Terminal Control

In async mode, ViPlex Express enables you to fully control multimedia players, such as brightness adjustment, time
synchronization, font management, terminal upgrade, video source switching, screen status control, play log query,
network configuration, and RF management.

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2 Getting Started
2.1 Preparing a PC
Minimum requirements:
 OS: Windows 7 SP1 64-bit
 CPU: i5
 RAM: 4 GB
 HDD: 60 GB

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2.2 Installing Software

Prerequisites
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Framework 4.6.x is installed.
The official version of Visual C++ 2017 runtime components are installed.
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Installing Software
Double click the installer to install ViPlex Express by following the wizard.

2.3 Checking PC Configuration Options

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To ensure stable playback, please check the Windows configuration options shown in Table 2-1. If a configuration
option does not conform to the target status, please change it. This chapter takes Windows 10 as an example.

Table 2-1 Configuration options

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Turn off screen Never
Sleep Never
Scaling size 100%
Multiple displays Duplicate these displays
UAC Never notify
Antimalware Service Executable Disabled
Superfetch Manual

2.3.1 Windows Automatic Update

Step 1 Click on the Windows Start menu.

Step 2 Choose Update & Security.

Step 3 On the Windows Update page, click Advanced options.

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Step 4 Check whether Windows automatic update is turned off.

Figure 2-1 Windows automatic update

2.3.2 Firewall
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Step 5 Check whether the firewall is turned off. If the firewall needs to be turned on, check whether the connection is allowed.

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Figure 2-2 Firewall

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2.3.3 Screen off and Sleep

Step 1 Click on the Windows Start menu.

Step 2 Choose System.

Step 3 Choose Power & sleep.

Step 4 Check whether all the four configuration options are set to Never.

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Figure 2-3 Screen off and sleep

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Step 3 Check whether the scaling size is 100% and the option of multiple displays is set to Duplicate these displays.

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Figure 2-4 Scaling size and multiple displays

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2.3.5 UAC

Step 1 Click on the Windows Start menu.

Step 2 Type "User Accounts" in the search box and select Change User Account Control Settings.

Step 3 Check whether UAC is set to Never notify.

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Figure 2-5 UAC

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Step 1 Press Win+R buttons to open the Run window.

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Step 2 Type gpedit.msc command and press Enter to open the Local Group Policy Editor dialog box.

Step 3 Expand Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Windows Defender

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Step 4 Click Real-time Protection.

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Figure 2-6 Antimalware service executable

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2.3.7 Superfetch

Step 1 Press Win+R buttons to open the Run window

Step 2 Type services.msc command and press Enter to open the Services dialog box.

Step 3 Check whether the startup type of Superfetch is Manual.

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Figure 2-7 Superfetch

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2.4 Connecting to Displays
Figure 2-8 Connecting to displays
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The PC with ViPlex Express installed is connected to an LCD and serves as a video source for the LCD.

2.5 Selecting Working Mode

First Installation
After ViPlex Express is first installed, a Select Mode dialog box appears when you open ViPlex Express. Select
Studio Mode and click Open.

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Figure 2-9 Selecting a working mode

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If you have installed ViPlex Express or selected a working mode before, the dialog box shown in Figure 2-9 will not
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2.6 Creating Solutions

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Step 1 After you select studio mode, the startup page of studio mode is displayed.

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Figure 2-10 Startup page of studio mode
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Step 2 Click and select Regular Screen or Ultra-Long Screen.

 Select Regular Screen to access the solution editing page.
On the solution editing page, choose Playback Window > Playback Window Settings from the menu bar and
set the coordinates, width, and height of the playback window and select an option of keeping the window on
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top. If Same as desktop is selected, the size of the playback window will be the same as the size of your
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Figure 2-11 Playback window settings

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Set a name, resolution, direction and the number of parts for the solution, then click OK to access the solution

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Figure 2-12 Solution information

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Step 3 After the solution editing is done, click Save.

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2.7 Playing Solutions

Step 1 On the solution editing page, click at the upper right to play a solution.

Step 2 The solution editing page is not displayed and a playback control bar appears.

Figure 2-13 Playback control bar

 : Pause playback. After the playback is paused, this button changes to the Play button.
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 : Stop playback and display the solution editing page.

 : Restart the playback from the beginning.

 : Expand the solution editing page.

 : Collapse the solution editing page.

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3 Solution Management
3.1 Creating Solutions
Step 1 After you select studio mode, the startup page of studio mode is displayed.
 You can create solutions for regular screens (hereinafter referred to as "regular-screen solutions") and solutions
for ultra-long screens (hereinafter referred to as "ultra-long-screen solutions".
 After updated, the solution data in async mode will be synchronized to studio mode.

Figure 3-1 Startup page of studio mode

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3.1.1 Creating a Regular-Screen Solution

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Before you create a solution, get the screen resolution in advance.

Step 1 Click and select Regular Screen from the drop-down menu.
 When you access the studio mode for the first time to create a regular-screen solution, you are prompted to set
the playback window, as shown in Figure 3-2.
The playback window and screen must be consistent in resolution.

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Figure 3-2 Playback window settings

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Figure 3-3 Solution editing page

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The description of the solution editing page is shown in Table 3-1.

Table 3-1 Description of the solution editing page

No. Function Description

1 Saving a solution and saving a Used for saving a solution and saving a solution as another
solution as another solution solution
2 Adding media
: General window : Cut-to-display window
You can click an icon to add a
corresponding type of media.
: File : Text

: Colorful text : Digital clock

: Analog clock : Timer

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No. Function Description

: Weather :Table

: RSS : Streaming media

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3 Viewing schedules, previewing Used for viewing schedules, previewing the current page and
pages and publishing solutions publishing solutions
4 Editing solution pages
: Add : Open the Page Template
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 Widget Properties: Widgets are the media added to a page.
The properties of different types of media vary. Click a widget
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 Page Properties: Set the name, play count, validity range and
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− Play Count: Set the number of times to play a page
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− Validity Range: After this option is selected, the Start
Date and End Date parameters are displayed. Expired
pages will be skipped during solution playback.
− Schedule: Allows you to specify the timeslots to play a
page and select the days to repeat the playback. If the
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played in order from top to bottom.
− Apply Schedule: Allows you to apply the schedule of the
current page to other pages. You can select multiple
pages and apply a schedule to them at the same time.

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 When you add an Excel file, the number of rows of the Excel file must be less than or equal to 600 and the total
width of the columns must be less than or equal to the width of an A4 landscape paper. It is recommended that
you set the page layout of the Excel file to A4 landscape.
 A valid URL is required when you add RSS, streaming media, or web page media.
 When you add weather media, the terminal must be connected to the Internet so that it can obtain real-time
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the multimedia player, you can use ultra-long-screen solutions.

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The resolution of a screen is 9000×128 or 128×9000 and the maximum loading capacity of a TB8 multimedia player
is 2,300,000 pixels with a maximum width of 4096 pixels and a maximum height of 1920 pixels.

Screen Configuration
 The screen width and height to be configured cannot exceed the maximum width and height of the loading
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Ultra-wide screen (9000×128) Ultra-tall screen (128×9000)
− Number of parts: 9000/4096=2.20 − Number of parts: 9000/1920=4.69
(Here an integer is required, so the (Here an integer is required, so the
number of parts is 3.) number of parts is 5.)
− Screen width to be configured: − Screen width to be configured:
9000/3=3000 128×5=640
− Screen height to be configured: − Screen height to be configured:
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Figure 3-4 Ultra-wide screen configuration

Figure 3-5 Ultra-tall screen configuration

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Figure 3-7 Ultra-tall screen connection

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 If you want to set receiving cards to blank, you can only set the receiving cards at both ends to blank, as shown
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Figure 3-9 Blank receiving cards of an ultra-tall screen

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The Solution Information dialog box appears.

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Figure 3-10 Solution information of an ultra-wide screen

Figure 3-11 Solution information of an ultra-tall screen

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 In the page media editing area, the page is displayed based on the actual screen resolution and boundaries
appear according to the number of parts.
 Only images, text and colorful text can be placed across the boundary.

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Figure 3-12 Ultra-long-screen solution editing page

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3.2 Playing Solutions

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 : Restart the playback from the beginning.

 : Expand the solution editing page.

 : Collapse the solution editing page.

3.3 Screen Monitoring

If you have an extended display connected and the solution is played on that display, click on the playback
control bar to monitor on the main display the image currently being played.

Figure 3-14 Screen monitoring

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4 Playback Management
4.1 Setting Playback Window
On the menu bar of the solution editing page, choose Playback Window > Playback Window Settings. Set the
coordinates, width, and height of the playback window and select an option of keeping the window on top. If Same as
desktop is selected, the size of the playback window will be the same as the size of your desktop.

Figure 4-1 Playback window settings

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5 Play Logs
5.1 Querying Play Logs
Step 1 On the solution editing page, select Play logs on the menu bar.

Figure 5-1 Play logs

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Figure 5-2 Query result

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Step 3 Select the logs you want to export and click Export.

Step 4 In the displayed dialog box, set the export path and format.
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6 System Settings
To enter system settings, click in the top-right corner of the startup page or solution editing page in studio mode.

6.1 Switching Language

Choose > Language and select the target language from the submenu.

6.2 Switching Working Mode

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6.3 Setting Preferences

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Figure 6-1 Setting preferences

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6.3.1 Starting Playback
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6.4 Viewing User Manual

Choose > User Manual to view the user manual of this software.
You can also click User Manual on the left menu on the startup page in studio mode.

6.5 Checking for Updates

Choose > Check for Updates. In the displayed dialog box, check whether a software update is available. If
there is an update available, click Download to start the online update.

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6.6 Submitting Feedback

Choose > Feedback. In the displayed dialog box, scan the QR code with your WeChat to follow the official
account and submit feedback, or send the feedback to the service email address.
You can also click Feedback on the left menu on the startup page in studio mode, as shown in Figure 6-2.

Figure 6-2 Menu on the startup page

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6.7 Viewing Software Information

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Choose > About. In the displayed dialog box, view the software related information.

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7 FAQs
7.1 How to set the inbound firewall rules?

Step 1 Click on the Windows Start menu.

Step 2 Choose Update & Security.
Step 3 Choose Windows Security.
Step 4 Click Open Windows Defender Security Center.

Step 5 Click Firewall & network protection.

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Step 6 Click Advanced Settings and then click Yes to open the Windows Defender Firewall with Advanced Security

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Figure 7-1 Advanced settings

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Figure 7-2 Inbound rules

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Step 8 On the right of the page, click New Rule to open the New Inbound Rule Wizard dialog box.

Step 9 Select Program and click Next.

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Figure 7-3 Rule type

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Step 11 Select Allow the connection and click Next.

Step 12 Select Domain, Private, and Public and click Next.

Step 13 Enter a name and click Finish.

7.2 What video formats are supported in studio mode?

The following video formats are supported in studio mode:
*.3g2, *.3gp, *.3gp2, *.3gpp, *.amv, *.asf, *.avi, *.bik, *.bin, *.divx, *.drc, *.dv, *.f4v, *.flv, *.gvi, *.gxf, *.iso, *.m1v, *.m2v,
*.m2t, *.m2ts, *.m4v, *.mkv, *.mov, *.mp2, *.mp4, *.mp4v, *.mpe, *.mpeg, *.mpeg1, *.mpeg2, *.mpeg4, *.mpg, *.mpv2,
*.mts, *.mxf, *.mxg, *.nsv, *.nuv, *.ogg, *.ogm, *.ogv, *.ps, *.rec, *.rm, *.rmvb, *.rpl, *.thp, *.tod, *.ts, *.tts, *.txd, *.vob,
*.vro, *.webm, *.wm, *.wmv, *.wtv, *.xesc

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AVI only supports the following video coding formats: MPEG-2, MPEG-4, MPEG-4 ASP, H.264, DivX 4/5/6, XviD, SV1,
3ivX D4, H.264/MPEG-4 AVCMKV, AMR, WebM, WMV, MP3. For instance, AVI videos in DX50 and MP4V formats
cannot be played.
When a video format is not supported, you are advised to convert the video to MP4 format with a professional video
format conversion software.

7.3 Limitations on Cut-to-Display Windows for Regular Screens

Table 7-1 Limitations on the playback of cut-to-display windows

Playback Window Size Maximum width 3840 px

(Solution Resolution)
Maximum height 2160 px
 Cut horizontally: Actual screen width/Playback window width ≤8

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 Cut vertically: Actual screen height/Playback window height ≤8

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Table 7-2 Media playback test values

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