FILE MANAGEMENT

Here you can manage the files of the internal storge.

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INFO

  • Diskspace => Show the diskspace

  • Movie Codec => Show movie codec infos

  • Movie Resolution => Show movie resolution

USB

  • Mount => Mount an USB stick

  • Unmount => Unmount an USB stick

BROWSER

  • select one of the 3 available filebrowsers

  • make the one you like as default

Note

  • filebrowser is not accessible over the internet

  • elFinder has a max. upload size of 2GB

  • eXtplorer is default, but might cause trouble with touch devices

TOOLS

  • Permission Fixer => if you lost write access to the storage, press this button

  • Filename Fixer => removes whitespaces, unreadable characters like à è é ö ä ü and shortens the Filename

  • Clean Hidden => especially when copying files vie Samba from OSX, you will get som .file files which cause the player to struggle, just click here to get rid of them

  • Conform Images => resizes all images to max. 1920 x 1080 and converts them to .jpg

UPLOAD FILES

To upload new content, follow this procedure:

  1. In the shortlinks, click STOP to free all resources

  2. Click the ‘Filebrowser shortlink’

  3. There opens up a new tab with an eXtplorer window

  4. Upload and manage your files in the /internal

  5. Be patient while uploading and do not disconnect the power!

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Note

  • For uploading large files (>400MB) copy from a connected USB stick https://www.pocketvj.com/pocketvj-exhibition

  • Filezilla for fast uploading via sftp://

  • Do not use empty spaces or special characters in your filenames, use TOOLS => Filename Fixer

  • Use the folder structure as given

  • If you are not able to up/download files, use TOOLS => Permission Fixer

  • Stop the player before uploading and managing content

FILEZILLA

Use sftp://

  1. Open Filezilla, under Server enter the IP: sftp://2.0.0.*** (replace the asterix with the number of your PocketVJ WiFi name)

  2. Hit Enter and you should be able to navigate to the folder

/media/internal/

  1. Load or edit your files, be sure not to modify any other directories!

LOADING FROM USB TO INTERNAL

Supported file systems are: vFAT, FAT32, exFAT, HFS, NTFS, EXT4

See tutorial: https://www.pocketvj.com/pocketvj-exhibition

SAMBA

If you never used samba, its great to disable this service, this will free up some cpu.

If you need it, turn it on and do following:

See tutorial: https://www.pocketvj.com/pocketvj-rtc

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  1. In Finder go to: GO > Connect to Server

  2. In the Server address bar type : smb://2.0.0.***

  3. Connect, in the password prompt select Guest.

  4. Your Finder mounts a Network device named: media

  5. Load and edit your files directly with finder

Note

If you move large files, finder may tell you: copy zero bytes of…. Estimating time remaining… and it looks like finder hangs showing turning colorball, then just go and grab a coffee, it is copying in the background :-)

600MB may take around 16 Minutes.