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1. Media Player Status Window:

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- Open File in choosen Device. - Eject - Mark In - Mark Out www.Building4Media.com

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05 - Preferences 06 - Extra Features 07 - Step Backward, press right mouse for Stepsize 08 - Step Forward, press right mouse for Stepsize 09 - Transport Control buttons 10 - Devices Window

2. Preferences Window:

1 - Checkbox to activate TCP/UDP traffic 2 - TCP Port which will be used to communicate from and to this application 3 - Maximum connections that can be opened on the TCP/UDP Port 4 - Force communication through UDP 5 - UDP communication Port

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3. Extra Features Window:

This window is used to make (test) recordings using the setups that were created. 1 - Record Begin will open a dialogue box letting you define a filename and a location where this file is saved. 2 - Record Start will start the actual recording 3 - Record Stop will end the actual recording 4 - Record End will finalize the recording and save the file to disk. 5 - Dismiss will ignore the recording just executed and will close this window 6 - Maximum length of recording can be specified here

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4.1. General Preferences Window:

1 - Server settings Window 2 - RTC (Real Time Clock) settings 3 - Watchdog settings 4 - Button to access the second Preferences window 5 - TCP Port which will be used to communicate from and to this application. When changing port numbers, do it here but also under point 2.2

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4.2. Real Time Clock Window:

1 - Selection of the Time Source. Choose from Computer (local machine time), Remote (remote FORK application time) or a hardware device providing time information 2 - Selection of the connection type for the time source. Choose from Dummy (mainly for testing purposes), TCP/IP (for network connections) or serial (for serial connections) 3 - Enable the RTC monitor window 4 - Force the application to only use the settings from step 1 5 - Use the fixed date. Can be usefull when files need to have the same datestamp or if date information is not available 6 - Detect time jumps 7 - Enable extra logging, usefull when troubleshooting issues with time generators or remote time sources 8 - Button to access the second Preferences window

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4.3. Watchdog:

The watchdog is a module that can be used to monitor the different applications in the system and if they are still online and active. This is established by each application sending out a n "heartbeat" which is then picked up by a central monitoring application. Once a configured application is no longer sending out any heartbeats anymore, the monitoring can react to that and trigger an alarm, such as a visual indication or an e-mail alert. 01 - Selection of the watchdog Heartbeat type. Most common will be Pulsar, B4M's own monitoring application. 02 - Selection of the connection type and network adress (eg. where the monitoring application is installed). 03 - Button to access the second Preferences window.

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5.1 General Preferences:

These settings are general settings, available in all FORK applications. 01 - If checked, users are able to pick files from the Operating System manually in the applications (where supported). 02 - Obsolete 03 - If checked, the application can be launched multiple times. In some applications this option is disabled. 04 - If checked, log files will be visible in the Messages window. 05 - If checked, log files will be automatically written to a file on the hard drive. 06 - Pressing this button will open a new window where the location of the saved log file on the hard drive can be set. Also naming convention, new file creation interval and automatic deletion of lof files can be configured here. 07 - Timing setting of the application. Choose between PAL and NTSC formats. 08 - Setting to define how much processor power the application will reserve. Appendix A - FORK Mediaplayer Pro Options - 8 www.Building4Media.com

09 - Determines the amount of times the applications idle task will be called in a row. 10 - Enables QuickTime to use other threads so time consuming processes will not block the GUI of the specific application. 11 - If checked, QT messages are passed through in the message log. 12 - Treshold (in frames) at which FORK will recognize a TimeCode jump being a TimeCode break. 13 - Reset all values to default/factory. 14 - Apply changes, might require a restart of the application.

5.2 Behaviour:

01 - If checked, windows opened through this application will disappear when other programs are put in the foreground. Unchecking this box will leave the windows visible at all times. 02 - If checked, windows will always open at their predefined position. 03 - If checked, users may define where windows will be positioned at re-opening this specific window. Appendix A - FORK Mediaplayer Pro Options - 9 www.Building4Media.com

04 - If checked, whenever this application is in the foreground, the dektop will not be visible. 05 - If checked, drag and drop functionality is disabled. 06 - If checked, all "hints" when rolling over buttons will be disabled. 07 - If checked, any inactive application that is made active, will ignore the initial click (that was necessarry to make the application active) as a "real" click. 08 - If checked, opening windows will automatically arrange. 09 - Method that will be used for auto-arranging windows. 10 - Disable/enable beam sync mode. 11 - If checked, mousewheels will be supported in the application (eg. for scrolling). 12 - If checked, keyboard input is ignored. 13 - If checked, buttons can be controlled by using the spacebar. 14 - If checked, radiobuttons and checkboxes can be controlled using the spacebar. 15 - If checked, the slider next to the list will grow and shrink to give a visual estimate about the total length of the list. 16 - If checked, whenever reaching the end of a list, the list will restart from the beginning. 17 - If checked, text conversions from and to non-roman languages is disabled. 18 - Optional file access delay in seconds, used in several applications to determine the delay in which the Operating System can close files before FORK will try to access them. 19 - Optional copy block size in kilobytes, used to determine the size of the blocks that FORK will copy at once. Can be used to streamline copy processes eg. in Edit2Playout. 20 - Reset all values to default/factory. 21 - Apply changes, might require a restart of the application.

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5.3 Fonts:

This menu is used to set up the different fonts and font sizes for different parts of the application. 01 - Reset all values to default/factory. 02 - Apply changes, might require a restart of the application.

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5.4 Appearance:

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