Netgem i-Player
and BT Digital TV adapter
PC Share
User Guide
Author: Netgem Support
Document printed on: Thursday, December 9, 2004
Revision: 136
©2003-2004 Netgem. All Rights Reserved. Subject to change.
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Table of Contents
1. INTRODUCTION..................................................................................................................... 3
2. GENERAL ................................................................................................................................ 4
2.1. REQUIREMENTS.................................................................................................................... 4
2.2. DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY................................................................................................. 4
2.3. LIABILITY ............................................................................................................................ 4
2.4. LICENSE............................................................................................................................... 4
3. GETTING STARTED .............................................................................................................. 5
3.5. PC SOFTWARE INSTALLATION ..............................................................................................5
3.6. I-PLAYER OR BT DIGITAL TV ADAPTER INSTALLATION........................................................ 7
4. ACCESSING MUSIC FROM THE PC SHARE ................................................. 9
5. ACCESSING PHOTOS FROM THE PC SHARE ............................................ 12
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1. Introduction
If you have a “Home Network” the PC Share Service allows you to share on your TV some of
the multimedia content stored on your Windows personal computer (PC). You can listen to
your digital music on your TV and on your home audio system, and you can browse your
photos on your TV as well.
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2. General
2.1. REQUIREMENTS
To use the “PC Share”, you need:
Ø An i-Player or a BT Digital TV adapter
Ø A home network (LAN), either Ethernet (Wired) or Wireless
Ø A compatible Ethernet or WiFi USB adapter
Ø A PC (personal computer) running Windows XP
Ø Digital photos (stored in the popular JPEG format), Digital music (stored in the popular
MP3 format) and videos stored in MPEG2 format
Ø The “FileZilla Server 0.8.9N” installation program (download it from
https:// www.netgemplatform.co.uk/utils/FileZila/)
Please note: this FileZilla Server software is an adapted version of the standard FileZilla
Server available under GNU public license. The modifications include simplified set up
and specific management for the i-Player and BT adapter PC Share FTP mechanism.
Though you can use the generic FileZilla Server software, we recommend that you use
this version for compatibility with the i-Player or the BT Digital TV adapter.
2.2. DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY
The software is licensed "as is" without any warranty of any kind. Netgem expressly
disclaims all express or implied statutory or other warranties, including without limitation,
the implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. The software
is a pre-release beta version and Netgem does not warrant that the functions contained in
the software will meet licensee's requirements, or that the operation of the software will
be uninterrupted or error free, or that defects in the software will be corrected. No oral
or written information or advice given by Netgem shall create a warranty or in any way
increase the scope of this warranty.
2.3. LIABILITY
Netgem shall not be liable to you for any loss or damage howsoever caused (including loss
or damage caused by negligence) because of the use, possession or performance of the
software, including the inability to use the software, or the inability to use the results of
the software on your personal computer, loss or damage due to viruses that may affect
your computer equipment, software, data or other property on account of your
downloading and running the software, or for any loss of data, interruption to business,
loss of contracts, loss of profits, loss of income, loss of goodwill, and any other direct,
indirect, incidental or consequential loss or damage.
2.4. LICENSE
The FileZilla Server software is available under the GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE (see
license.txt file).
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3. Getting started
At this point, it is assumed that you have already set up your home network using a
Wireless or Wired Ethernet router and that you have successfully connected your I-Player
or BT Digital TV adapter to your home network.
3.5. PC SOFTWARE INSTALLATION
Double-click on the “FileZilla Server 0.8.9N” icon. If you received an installation CD with
your Freedom Digital package, you may download it from the Freedom Digital web site.
Follow the setup wizard to complete the installation.
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In the “Sharing settings” page, please select a password for sharing multimedia content
from your PC onto your I-Player or BT Digital TV adapter. Chose a password that’s not too
difficult to remember and please note that the password is case sensitive (e.g., iPlayer and
iplayer are not the same password).
By default, the password is “myplayer” (all lowercase). You may choose to keep it, or if
you want to apply more security to your PC Share, we encourage you to change it to
something more secret.
IMPORTANT: Please keep in mind that, if your home network is exposed to the Internet,
someone who guesses your password may have access to your Shared Documents (and
music and photos).
At the end of the setup, simply click the “Close” button.
Note: If your computer is equipped with a firewall or Internet Security protection, you will
have to configure the “FileZilla Server” program to allow connection from other computers
on your home network.
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The installed program will display the “Server address”. This information is important and
you should write it down because you will need it later to configure your I-Player. You’ll
notice that an “I-Player info” icon also appeared on your desktop. You may use it (doubleclick) if you need to display the I-Player information again later on.
3.6. I-PLAYER OR BT DIGITAL TV ADAPTER INSTALLATION
To configure the PC Share on your IPlayer, press MENU and select
MULTIMEDIA icon.
In the MULTIMEDIA menu, select
PREFERENCES to access the FTP
BOOKMARKS menu.
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In the FTP BOOKMARKS menu, select
“NEW PC SHARE” to configure your PC
share.
This is the important step: you must
enter the “Server address” and
“Password” to match those of the
software you’ve just installed on your
PC.
On your PC, use the
shortcut to determine the “Server
address” of your PC.
In the “Password” field, enter exactly
the same password you typed during the
installation of the PC software (casesensitive)
Press the key to save these settings, then select EXIT to return to the MULTIMEDIA
MENU.
Note: In the NEW FTP PC SHARE menu, enter the “Server address” exactly as it was
displayed on the PC software. If you didn’t write it down, return to your PC and doubleclick the “i-Player Info” icon that you can find on the Desktop. The “Server address” is
made up of 4 numbers separated by dots, e.g., 192.168.10.10 or 10.0.0.2
You must also enter the password that you selected during the PC software installation.
Please make sure that you type the exact same password and remember that it is case
sensitive.
Remember that, unless you changed it during the PC software installation, the password is
“myplayer” (all lowercase, without the quotes).
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4. Accessing Music from the PC Share
The MUSIC “Shared Folder ” that i-Player displays is the “Shared Music” folder of your PC.
Generally, the “Shared Music” folder is located in the “Shared Documents” folder. To see
its contents, open “My Computer”, then “Shared Folders”, then “Shared Music”. Make sure
that your digital music appears in this folder.
The digital music must be in MP3 format. Digital music in AAC or WMA formats cannot be
player in the i-Player or the BT Adapter.
You may also know that on a Windows XP computer, each user may also have a “My Music”
folder, which is generally located each user’s “My Documents” folder. These userdependent folders are NOT shared by the PC Share program and are not available from the
I-Player MULTIMEDIA menu.
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Select MULTIMEDIA from the MENU.
Use the keys to select the MUSIC
folder, then press the key.
Select the folder (album) you wish to
listen to, then press the key.
Generally, each folder corresponds to a
music album or each folder contains
other subfolders. Press the key to
list the contents of an album and press
the key to exit a folder (return to
the previous folder).
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Press the key on the song you wish
to start with.
All the songs in this folder will play,
continuously, or in random order.
When songs are playing, you may change
from sequential to random order by
pressing the button.
You may also press the button to
enable the jukebox screensaver to avoid
leaving a static image on your TV screen.
Press any key to exit the screensaver
mode.
You can skip to the next or previous song
using the and keys.
Press the to exit this album and
return to the song list.
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5. Accessing Photos from the PC Share
You can also view your digital photos stored on your PC through your television. To do so,
you must first make sure that your photos are stored in the “Shared Pictures” folder of
your PC. The “Shared Pictures” folder is usually located in the “Shared Documents” folder
directly accessible from “My Computer”. Please note that the “Shared Pictures” folder is
not your personal “My Pictures” folder (which is not shared).
Photos must be in JPEG format.
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Select MULTIMEDIA from the MENU.
Use the keys to select the PHOTOS
folder, and then press the key.
Select the folder (album) you wish to
browse, then press the key.
Press the key to list the contents
of a folder and press the key to
exit a folder (return to the previous
folder).
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You can preview each photo by selecting
it with the arrow keys.
Press the key to open a slideshow
of these photos.
Use the arrow keys to move to the next
or previous photo.
Press the key to start a slideshow.
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