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SMP300 Series • Reference Information 140

Supported File Types, Drive Formats, Browsers, and Browser Plugins

File Formats

The SMP 300 Series creates *.m4v and mp4 video and m4a audio files, and *.jpg thumbnail

and chapter marker images. They use still image files for background material. Optional

fonts can be used for on‑screen displays.

Recording File Types

• mp4 (as m4v), m4a

Still Image File Types

• png (for background images)

• jpg (for SMP‑created thumbnails and chapter markers)

Font File Types

• TrueType

™

(.ttf)

• OpenType

(.otf)

NOTE: To upload a font file, use the file upload utility within the File Management

page. The user is responsible for obtaining any necessary font licenses before

uploading fonts to the SMP.

Drive Formats

The SMP300 Series supports FAT32, NTFS, and VFAT long file names, EXT2, EXT3 and

EXT4 formats for USB drives that are used for file storage.

NOTE: For FAT32 USB storage, file sizes must be limited to 4GB or the recording

creates multiple 4 GB files. FAT32 internal recording does not have the 4GB size limit,

if unlimited file size is selected.

Browsers

In order to view the SMP300 Series embedded web pages, use one of the supported web

browsers (see PC Requirements on page3).

NOTE: The preview video in the AV Controls panel of the SMP uses an HTML5 player

and is not supported by Microsoft Internet Explorer v.11, Microsoft Edge, or Apple

Safari. To see a preview of the current stream either:

Use a different browser, or

Open a standalone, third‑party video player (such as VideoLAN™ open source VLC™

media player) and connect to the confidence stream from the SMP.

Browser Plugins

Supported web browser streaming player plugins for use with the embedded web pages

include the following:

• Extron Streaming Media Player (SMP) for Windows

• VideoLAN VLC

• Apple QuickTime

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