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    DAM-1000 Support Notes 1 All contents c opyright (c ) 2006 ZyXEL C ommunicat ions Corporati on. DMA-1000/1000W Digital Media Adapter Support Notes Revision 1.20 Nov 2006[...]

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    DAM-1000 Support Notes 2 All contents c opyright (c ) 2006 ZyXEL C ommunicat ions Corporati on. INDEX 1. DMA-1000/1000W Intr oduction ......................................................................................... 3 2. Basic Application: Directly Connect to a Media Server ................................................... 4 2.1 The Appli[...]

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    DAM-1000 Support Notes 3 All contents c opyright (c ) 2006 ZyXEL C ommunicat ions Corporati on. 1. DMA-1000/1000W Introduction In future, you will probably want to us e all kinds of digita l contents for your entertainment. E.g. surf internet, transmit data , watch m ovies, browse photos, and listen to music. Perhaps you will want to do this not on[...]

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    DAM-1000 Support Notes 4 All contents c opyright (c ) 2006 ZyXEL C ommunicat ions Corporati on. 2. Basic Application: Directly Connect to a Media Server 2.1 The Application Diagram In this basic application scenario, you have all the devices including TV set, ZyXEL DMA-1000/1000W , and PC/Laptop or NAS (with embedded media server) in the same room.[...]

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    DAM-1000 Support Notes 5 All contents c opyright (c ) 2006 ZyXEL C ommunicat ions Corporati on. signal transmission. If you use HDMI cable, then the audio output would be also transmitted over the HDMI cable. If you use S-V ideo cable for video transmission, then you need to choose either a coaxial S/PDIF cab le or A V cable for transmissi on of th[...]

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    DAM-1000 Support Notes 6 All contents c opyright (c ) 2006 ZyXEL C ommunicat ions Corporati on. 3. Advanced Application: Connect to a Ethernet Hub/Switch 3.1 The Application Diagram In this advanced appli cation scenario, your TV set ha d already sat down in living room (1 st Floor) and there is no Ethernet outle t placed in living room. Meanwhile,[...]

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    DAM-1000 Support Notes 7 All contents c opyright (c ) 2006 ZyXEL C ommunicat ions Corporati on. 3.2 Hardware Connection In this application scenario, we use the following hardware devices: z ZyXEL Digital Media Adapter DMA-1000/1000W z ZyXEL Power Line Adapter PLA-400 *2 z ZyXEL Network Storage Appliance NSA-220 z ZyXEL DSL CPE P-662H z PC/Laptop z[...]

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    DAM-1000 Support Notes 8 All contents c opyright (c ) 2006 ZyXEL C ommunicat ions Corporati on. 3.3 Sof tware Inst allation The PC/Laptop or NSA-220 acts as a media server in this scenario too. The DMA-1000/1000W gets the data (music, photos and videos) from those media servers. Like in the previous scenario, when us ing ZyXEL NSA-220 you don’t n[...]

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    DAM-1000 Support Notes 9 All contents c opyright (c ) 2006 ZyXEL C ommunicat ions Corporati on. Frequently Asked Questions A. DiXiM Media Server F A Qs A01. DiXiM Media Server & Firewall related issue When you installing DiXiM Media Server on your PC/Laptop, if you see a window asking about configuring the W indows firewall, just click YES. Thi[...]

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    DAM-1000 Support Notes 10 All contents c opyright (c ) 2006 ZyXEL C ommunicat ions Corporati on. If your computer has any other software fire walls, please refer to the following table to manually configure them to allow th e DMA-1000/1000W to access this PC/Laptop. Application Program file name Function Port No. Protocol DiXiM SSDP Discovery 1900 [...]

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    DAM-1000 Support Notes 11 All contents c opyright (c ) 2006 ZyXEL C ommunicat ions Corporati on. A02. The “DiXiM Media Server Helper” window popping up When finishing the installation of DiXiM Media Server , there will be DiXiM Media Server Helper windows popping up to notify about media clients requesting to access your DiXiM Media Server . Y [...]

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    DAM-1000 Support Notes 12 All contents c opyright (c ) 2006 ZyXEL C ommunicat ions Corporati on. Y ou can add this media client (e.g. DMA-1000/1000W . The IP address may vary from the screen shot. ) on published lis t, then th is m edia client will be able to access this media server ’ s published content. A03. How to publish contents on DiXiM Me[...]

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    DAM-1000 Support Notes 13 All contents c opyright (c ) 2006 ZyXEL C ommunicat ions Corporati on. B. DMA-1000/1000W F AQs B01. Setting the Network ZyXEL DM A-1000/1000W is designed for simple use. In general, it is not necessary to configure the DMA-1000/1000W . It can get or assign the IP address automatically . The default setting is as shown on t[...]

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    DAM-1000 Support Notes 14 All contents c opyright (c ) 2006 ZyXEL C ommunicat ions Corporati on. If you want to configure the IP address manually , just change the value of the “ Get IP Address ” field from YES to NO . Then you can enter the IP Address, Subnet Mask, Default Gateway , and DNS Server . In the following figure, you can also get th[...]

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    DAM-1000 Support Notes 15 All contents c opyright (c ) 2006 ZyXEL C ommunicat ions Corporati on. B02. Finding the Media Server Just like the Network Setting, the DMA- 1000/1000W can automatically scan media servers in the network. The following scre enshot shows D MA-1000/1000W has found two media servers: A-TM3002WTMi and nsa-220. T hus, you can p[...]

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    DAM-1000 Support Notes 16 All contents c opyright (c ) 2006 ZyXEL C ommunicat ions Corporati on. B03 . Add Favorite doesn’t work on DMA-1000 When adding/editing favorite list, you need to press power button from remote control to turn of f and then turn on again to make the change becom e effective on DMA-1000. This is the Save Configuration proc[...]

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    DAM-1000 Support Notes 17 All contents c opyright (c ) 2006 ZyXEL C ommunicat ions Corporati on. C. General F AQs C01. Can I run DiXiM Media Server a nd Microsof t Window s Media Connect at the same time on a computer? W e DO NOT recommend install DiXiM Media Server and Microsoft W indows Media Connect on the same computer . Due to th ey recognize [...]