Cisco 4400G User manual
QUICK START
Quick Start Guide for
Cisco Digital Media Player 4400G
1Checking the Package Contents
2Finding a Suitable Location to Set Up Your DMP
3Participating in a DHCP Network
4Connecting to a DMP Display
5Connecting to a 100V–240V AC Socket
6Checking the LEDs
7Logging in to DMPDM and Changing its Passwords
8Configuring Video Output
9Setting Up Centralized Management
10 Learning About the Remote Control for DMPs
11 Learning About the Protective Case for DMPs
12 Product Documentation, Support, and Security
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Revised: January 23, 2009
78-18567-03
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Concepts
Cisco Digital Media System (Cisco DMS) is a family of
products and technologies, including the ones that this
guide describes. A Digital Media Player (DMP) is a
compact, solid state, addressable network device that delivers
digital signage content and enterprise TV content to a DMP
display—which is an LCD Professional Series display
or any other directly attached television screen, monitor, or
projector (analog or digital, standard-definition or
high-definition) that shows media to an audience. You can
enclose your DMP inside a protective case that discourages
tampering and prevents theft. The protective case is sold
separately. Digital Media Player Device Manager
(DMPDM) is a web-based graphical user interface to configure
one DMP during its initial setup, to manage one DMP in
isolation, and to deliver your media to one DMP display.
DMPDM is served from the DMP that it manages. System
administrators, content managers, and graphic designers use a
Digital Media Manager (DMM) software module called
DMM-DSM to centrally manage their network of DMP
devices, organize and bind assets together for signage, design
layouts, and deliver media to DMP displays. Features of the
separately licensed DMM-ETV software module help you to
deliver VoDs and live television broadcasts over IP networks,
configure an on-screen electronic program guide (EPG), manage
subscriptions to EPG data provider services, and program the
remote control for DMPs, which is sold separately.
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Learn More
To learn more about DMS products, related technologies, and
Cisco in general:
Description Go To
DMS overview http://www.cisco.com/go/dms
User documentation
for Cisco DMS
products
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/p
s6681/products_documentation_roadm
aps_list.html
FAQs and
troubleshooting
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/p
s6681/prod_troubleshooting_guides_lis
t.html
Cisco Academy of
Digital Signage
http://www.cisco.com/go/dms/ads
My Tech Support
(registration
required)
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/support/ts
d_my_tech_support.html
Cisco Service
Contract Center
http://www.cisco.com/web/partners/ser
vices/resources/cscc/index.html
Cisco Security
Advisories
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/p
roducts_security_advisories_listing.html
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1 Checking the Package Contents
The product package for one DMP 4400G should contain all of
the following:
•A proof of purchase certificate that contains important
legal information, which you should keep.
•This quick start guide and other product documentation.
•One DMP 4400G.
•One AC adapter (12V, 3A).
•One power cord.
•Three signal cables:
–
HDMI (version 1.1).
–
Composite/RCA (video).
–
Audio (3mm jack; red and white RCA plugs).
If anything is missing from the package or appears to be
defective, contact the technical support team trained to support
DMS products at: http://cisco.com/en/US/support/.
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2 Finding a Suitable Location to Set Up
Your DMP
The site where you set up a DMP must be within 6 feet of an AC
electrical outlet (socket), with voltage that is standard in your
locale, between 100V and 240V. To understand the supported
lengths for different video cable types, see the “Connecting to a
DMP Display” section on page 9.
Environmental Tolerance Ranges
The DMP 4400G is intended for indoor use.
Temperature1US Customary Unit Modern Metric Unit
Min. Max. Min. Max.
Operating—
long-term or
short-term
41°F 104°F 5°C 40°C
Nonoperating
or storage
–4°F 140°F –20°C 60°C
Relative Humidity2Min. Max.
Operating,
nonoperating,
and storage
20 percent 85 percent
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3 Participating in a DHCP Network
The factory default for a DMP 4400G is to obtain its IP address
automatically from a DHCP server. To learn how to configure
your DMP to use a static IP address instead—if you will deploy
it at a physical location that does not have a DHCP server—see
on Cisco.com the version of User Guide for Cisco Digital Media
Player Device Manager that applies to you:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps7220/products_user_gui
de_list.html.
Altitude3US Customary Unit Modern Metric Unit
Min. Max. Min. Max.
Operating,
nonoperating,
and storage
0 feet 13,780
feet
0 meters 4,200
meters
1. Ambient.
2. Noncondensing; ambient.
3. Above sea level.
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Tip If a network security policy restricts DHCP address
assignments to network interface cards with known
MAC addresses, read the sticker that is affixed to the
bottom of your DMP chassis, and then provide your
security policy administrator with the MAC address.
Step 1 Plug one end of an ordinary Ethernet cable into the
Ethernet 10/100 port on the back of the DMP chassis.
Step 2 Plug the other end of the Ethernet cable into a network
hub, network switch, or router that participates in a
DHCP network.
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4 Connecting to a DMP Display
We recommend that you use a Cisco LCD Professional Series
display, such as LCD-110-PRO-52S or LCD-100-PRO-40N,
which are sold separately from a DMP. All displays in the LCD
Professional Series are certified and tested to work with the
DMS family of products.
If you prefer to use a non-Cisco display, we recommend that you
use a digital display, not analog. As for the type of digital
display, we recommend that you use LCD, not plasma.
Digital signage uses static images more often than it uses
full-motion video. Most often, content is web-based or
animated in Flash. The nature of these media types means that
some pixels are not updated frequently in digital signage. Given
that LCDs are less susceptible to burn-in than plasma displays
are, LCD displays are the superior choice for digital signage.
Even though image persistence is sometimes a problem on LCD
displays, it is almost always self-correcting and is unlikely to
occur if you follow manufacturer guidelines for managing your
displays correctly.
You can use displays from any manufacturer, as long as your
displays comply with all of the relevant international standards.
To attach most digital display makes and models to your DMP,
we recommend that you use the provided HDMI cable for both
video and audio. However, it might be possible to attach other
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digital display makes and models to your DMP only if you
combine the HDMI cable with an HDMI-to-DVI adapter for
video, and then use the provided audio cable (3mm jack; red and
white RCA plugs) for audio.
To attach an analog display to your DMP, we recommend that
you use the provided composite/RCA cable for both video
and audio.
Step 1 On the back of your DMP chassis, do one of the
following:
•If you will connect your DMP to a digital display
that has an HDMI interface, plug the male end of
the HDMI cable into the HDMI interface on
your DMP.
•If you will connect your DMP to a display that does
not have an HDMI interface, do all of
the following:
–
Plug the male end of the HDMI cable into the
HDMI interface on your DMP, and then
connect an HDMI-to-DVI adapter to the other
end of the HDMI cable.
–
Plug the 3mm jack on the audio cable into the
AUDIO interface on your DMP.
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