PRG Mbox Designer Manual 3.9 - Manual (Page 56)

48 MBOX ® MEDIA SERVER USER MANUAL
At startup, the Mbox Designer software performs a media scan to search all folders that reside within the Mbox/Media
and Mbox/Models folders on the Mbox server’s RAID. External media can be attached to these folders using aliases,
provided the following guidelines are observed:
+ Aliases must link to folders on the supplemental media. They cannot be aliases of files.
+ An alias cannot refer to another alias.
+ The /Mbox/Media , and /Mbox/Models folders cannot be aliases.
Each time the Mbox Designer software completes a media scan, a text file is created with all media files found and
their corresponding combined file numbers. This text file can be found at
/Mbox/Media_Report.txt
Note: The initial media scan allows the locations of files to be resolved at startup, therefore the "distance" of a file
from the main folder has no effect on the time required to find a file. In addition, the content in the
Media folder is
allowed to be nested (folders within folders) to a limit of 64 folders deep.
Folder and File Numbering
Media content files are stored on the RAID hard-drive. They are
arranged into individual "Library" folders within the
/Mbox/Media or /
Mbox/Models folders. Each folder name must begin with a 3-digit
index value. In turn, each file within the Library folder must be
named using a 3-digit index value between 000 to 255 as a prefix.
Two control channels on the console will be used to select a Library
folder and the numbered file within that folder.
Library folders within the Media folder must have a number prefix and can have a descriptive name separated from
the number by a period or a space. For example:
025.Central Park or 025 Central Park
Files within each library folder must have a numerical prefix, can have a descriptive name if desired, and must have a
three-letter file extension. Each of these parts should be separated by a period:
001.Great Lawn.jpg or 001.jpg
Movie and still image files may be numbered between 000 and 255 and placed in folders numbered 001 - 254. Models
and digital gobos may be numbered between 000 and 255 and placed in folders numbered 001 - 255.

001.videos
001.rain.mov

002.drops.jpg
etc.
MboxExtremeRAID/Mbox/Media