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Schedule Preparations
Chapter 4 Routine Operations
Schedule Preparations
To play back contents on an NSP-1, “schedules” must be
prepared together with the materials and playlists.
Schedules include daily schedules and periodic schedules.
A “daily schedule” defines the start and end times, in a
day, of each playlist. The playlist will be played repeatedly
in the specified time.
A “periodic schedule” defines which daily schedule is to
be used for a specific day.
Daily Schedules and Periodic
Schedules
Daily schedules
The following figure shows an example of a daily
schedule.
In a daily schedule, playlists to be played and the control
commands for the NSP-1 audio output level or a device
connected to the NSP-1, such as a plasma display, are
specified.
This daily schedule instructs the NSP-1 to perform the
following operations:
Regardless of the length of each playlist, “Morning Prog.”
will be played from 10:00:00 in the morning to 1:00:00 in
the afternoon, “Afternoon Prog.” will be played until
5:00:00 in the evening, and then “Evening Prog.” will be
played from 5:00:00.
If the length of the “Morning Prog.” is 40 minutes, for
example, it will repeat four and half times from 10:00:00,
then playout will be switched to “Afternoon Prog.” at
1:00:00 in the afternoon.
Even when playout starts after its start time, the control
commands operate. In the example designated above, it
will never happen that playout proceeds without turning
the power of the plasma display to on.
When the daily schedule is created, the period when the
daily schedule will be used is specified as the periodic
schedule, and it is sent to the NSP-1.
Periodic schedules
The following figure shows an example of the Edit
Periodic Schedule dialog box.
You will specify the index of the desired daily schedule
and the period in which the daily schedule will be used for
playout in this dialog box.
In this example, playout will occur everyday from July 1st
through August 15, 2004 according to the daily schedule
whose index is 051000001.
By sending the periodic schedule to the NSP-1, everything
you need for playout, that is, the required daily schedule,
the playlists, and materials, is sent with it.
Time
Operations
9:59:00 Control (turn on) the plasma display.
10:00:00 Start playout of the “Morning Prog.” playlist.
13:00:00 Start playout of the “Afternoon Prog.” playlist.
17:00:00 Start playout of the “Evening Prog.” playlist.
21:00:00 End playout of the “Evening Prog” playlist.
21:00:01 Control (turn off) the plasma display.