User manual

4. Working with SMIL

The ViewSonic NMP-550 Media Player uses open communications protocols for extremely flexible

content presentation and playback control. SMIL-compliance means predictable results across

multiple devices, and SMIL’s non-proprietary nature means that your investments are never obsolete.

4.1. Introduction

Using SMIL (pronounced “smile”), the de facto language of multimedia communications, the

ViewSonic NMP-550 Media Player understands the language “spoken” by professional tools from

multimedia powerhouses such as Adobe, Apple, Microsoft, and Real Networks. What this means is

quicker, easier, and better integration of your players into your digital signage networks, opening up

avenues of software controls and realizing the full potential of your player hardware down the road.

4.2. Playing a SMIL demo

The demonstration files can be found in the Software and Documentation CD.

Step 1: Prepare contents using a PC

Prepare a formatted USB drive (using the “FAT32” file system option).

Copy the entire sample SMIL directory with all its content files from

Software and Documentation CD to the USB drive. Make sure the

SMIL directory shows up in the root directory of the USB drive.

Step 2: Upload contents to player

Power up the NMP-550. Booting takes about 60 seconds.

When the orange boot indicator lamp goes out, insert USB

drive into the USB port to begin upload. All files under the

SMIL directory will be copied to the player and the sample

contents will begin to play.

4.3. Advanced Customization via SMIL

The NMP-550 utilizes W3C SMIL as the underlying scripting language, which lends well to

customization to your project management needs. For resources and community support, please visit