Application Settings

Click on ‘Application Settings’ in the tree structure. This will open the Application Settings form:

 

1.  ‘Allow Full Tree Expansion’ enables Mediacaster’s powerful tree view on all associations between Media, Overlays, Playlists, Schedules etc. For simplification and UI efficiency, it is disabled by default.

2.  ‘Auto Media Preview in Media’ can be disabled here. Disabling this feature will mean that media files are not automatically played when they are clicked on in the tree menu.

3.  ‘Auto Media Preview in Playlists’ can be disabled here. Disabling this feature will mean that media files are not automatically played when selecting them in the playlist view.

4.  ‘Script (Character Set)’ defines the character set Mediacaster uses to interpret scripts. Mediacaster supports a variety of non-Western character sets.

5.  ‘Extract Media Thumbnails’ can be disabled if you want to extract thumbnails. The listing of media to be more efficient and may be required for non-standard video formats that cause thumbnail extraction issues.

6.  ‘Download Logs At’ defines the time you want the manager to download log file from the FTP server.