ZyXEL Communications DMA-1000W, DMA-1000 User Manual

DAM-1000 Support Notes

DMA-1000/1000W

Digital Media Adapter

Support Notes

Revision 1.20

Nov 2006

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INDEX

1. DMA-1000/1000W Introduction.........................................................................................3

2. Basic Application: Directly Connect to a Media Server................................................... 4

2.1 The Application Diagram.............................................................................................4

2.2 Hardware Connection................................................................................................... 4

2.3 Software Installation .................................................................................................... 5

3. Advanced Application: Connect to a Ethernet Hub/Switch.............................................6

3.1 The Application Diagram.............................................................................................6

3.2 Hardware Connection................................................................................................... 7

3.3 Software Installation .................................................................................................... 8

Frequently Asked Questions....................................................................................................9

A. DiXiM Media Server FAQs...........................................................................................9

A01. DiXiM Media Server & Firewall related issue ................................................. 9

A02. The “DiXiM Media Server Helper” window popping up............................... 11

A03. How to publish contents on DiXiM Media Server?........................................12

B. DMA-1000/1000W FAQs ...........................................................................................13

B01. Setting the Network.........................................................................................13

B02. Finding the Media Server................................................................................15

B03. Add Favorite doesn’t work on DMA-1000......................................................16

C. General FAQs..............................................................................................................17

C01. Can I run DiXiM Media Server and Microsoft Windows Media Connect at

the same time on a computer?..................................................................................17

C02. Supported and Unsupported format on screen display....................................17

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1. DMA-1000/1000W Introduction

In future, you will probably want to use all kinds of digital contents for your

entertainment. E.g. surf internet, transmit data, watch movies, browse photos, and listen to

music. Perhaps you will want to do this not only at your desk or in the study room, but also

from everywhere in your house. Nowadays, you capture digital images on your digital

camera, you capture digital videos on your digital camcorder, and you rip music from CDs

into digital audio files and therefore, your PC is full of digital entertainment. You are

disappointed that you can only enjoy these files on your PC, instead of on that large, digital,

flat-screen TV you just bought. The ZyXEL digital media adapter DMA-1000/1000W is

designed to receive the content from the PC through wired Ethernet networking technology

to exchange digital media and control information then display the content to TV with

simple audio and video cables.

From the comfort of your own living room, the DMA-1000/1000W allows you to

stream all video content to your big flat panel Plasma or LCD TV from your PC with

appropriate software. You can also view your digital photo collection on your TV straight

from your PC or playback all the digital music from your computer on your stereo system.

Here we will show you two kinds of connection methods on how to deploy ZyXEL

DMA-1000/1000W on your home:

y Basic Application: Directly connect to a media server y Advanced Application: Connect to a Ethernet Hub/Switch

See following for detail description on these two scenarios.

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2. Basic Application: Directly Connect to a Media Server

2.1 The Application Diagram

In this basic application scenario, you have all the devices including TV set,

ZyXEL DMA-1000/1000W, and PC/Laptop or NAS (with embedded media server) in the

same room. This is the simplest environment when deploy ZyXEL DMA-1000/1000W.

2.2 Hardware Connection

You need to use cross-over Ethernet cable to directly connect your PC/Laptop (or

ZyXEL network storage appliance NSA-220) and ZyXEL DMA-1000/1000W. For

connecting to you TV set, you can use either HDMI cable or S-Video cable for the video

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signal transmission. If you use HDMI cable, then the audio output would be also transmitted

over the HDMI cable. If you use S-Video cable for video transmission, then you need to

choose either a coaxial S/PDIF cable or AV cable for transmission of the audio signal to the

TV set.

For detail connection procedures, please refer to DMA-1000/1000W Quick Start

Guide or User Guide.

2.3 Software Installation

The ZyXEL DMA-1000/1000W gets the data (music, photos and videos) from the

media servers. In this directly connection scenario, a PC/Laptop or NAS (Network Attached

Storage) need to act as a media server.

If you use ZyXEL NSA-220, then you won’t need to install any extra software. If

you want to use your PC/Laptop, install the bundled DiXiM Media Server software. For

detail step-by-step procedures on installing DiXiM Media Server, please refer to

DMA-1000/1000W Quick Start Guide.

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3. Advanced Application: Connect to a Ethernet Hub/Switch

3.1 The Application Diagram

In this advanced application scenario, your TV set had already sat down in living

room (1st Floor) and there is no Ethernet outlet placed in living room. Meanwhile, your

computer and network devices are all settled down in the study room (2nd Floor). This is a

typical layout on most people’s home. We will describe how to deploy ZyXEL

DMA-1000/1000W in such environment.

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