Networked Media Jukebox (NMJ)

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Applicable to the following NMT

Popcorn Hour NMT Models:	C-200, A-200/210

Introduction

The Networked Media Jukebox, or NMJ, is the official media jukebox interface made available for the Popcorn Hour 200-series.

This jukebox let's you browse and search media from different views, and show detailed information about the media collected from the IMDB.com database.
- By Movie - Sort by Movies
- By TV Shows - Sort by TV Shows
- By Genre - Sort by Movie genre, for example Action, Adventure or Cartoon
- By Year - Sort by movie year of release
- By User Rating - Sort by User Ratings of Movies
- Search - Allow you to input movie title to quickly conduct a search
- Parental Control - Enable or Disable Parental Control
- View Mode - Wall, List, or Category Mode

While the movie information is collected from IMDB.com it can be manually edited, either on-screen or via user generated applications - from a PC application or via a browser. You can add your own covers and fanart.

You can rate your media and share your ratings with other users.

First time use

Take time to visit the PopCorn Hour website and the NMJ section.

Read the Manual

Initial Screen Upon pressing the coloured button a pop-up asks for confirmation.

Scanning Confirmation that your location is writeable and that NMJ is scanning your location.

When running the NMJ for the first time it will prompt for scanning of media files on your storage device/share in order to build the user interface with posters. Press the Red coloured key on your remote control to invoke it the NMJ UI and see that message. If you do not see the message then the NMT is having trouble writing to the location, check for example if you are scanning a NAS share that you have allowed both write and read access.

Depending upon the amount of files in your media library, the scan may take several hours to complete. You need an Internet connection to get the posters and information to your NMT.

Please refer to this Sticky and this Sticky on the NMT Owners Forum. There is a whole forum NMJ Section and additionally a NMJ Guides section.

If you use YAMJ then it is possible to use software on your PC to adapt your YAMJ output for NMJ. Simply follow the instructions located HERE for Windows & Mac users.

How to use NMJ

Remote Button	Image of Button	What it does	Addition Notes
Menu		This brings up the NMJ menu	.
PLAY		This button plays your files	Movies: This will start playing your movie Music: If pressed on an album cover, it will play the entire album. If pressed on a individual track it will ONLY play that track. Photos: This will invoke a slideshow (confirm)
Angle		This button will bring up a shortcut to change the view (IE category, wall, or list)	.
Time Seek		This button will bring up the search box.	.
Any letter		This will bring up the quick search box	.

NMJ Remote Control Commands

You are actually in Flash an entirely different system than the usual UI. Some of the remote control commands are very similar and some are new.

Good news is that the first time you use NMJ you are shown a series of screens with the remote control commands and some basic instructions. You can skip backwards and forwards through the help screens using the < and > button via your direction arrows on the D-pad. The buttons to skip are located bottom left of the help screens. Here's the first help screen:-

The coloured buttons initially are used and then the direction and play keys

The remote control buttons used are initially the coloured buttons when you first enter your NMJ location, unless you have Auto-Start ON in Menu Settings in which case the NMJ UI will launch. Thereafter it is a case of using the Angle button to change/select different view modes and the arrow keys to move between files and options once you have selected a file.

The Manual explains more commands and features.

Add-ons and extras

The user community has already developed several tools to manage and control the media information collected in the NMJ database, for instance the NMJToolbox by forum member Rom.

Browse the NMT Forum - NMJ section for more details.

How-To Launch NMJ Automatically

It is possible to Auto Launch NMJ when entering the location of your NMJ database, simply use the Auto-Start option in the NMJ Menu section.

It is possible thanks to forum member Accident to launch any of the NMJ sections automatically. All NMT's will load a index.htm file automatically if one is present in the location.

Simply download this file (Nmjlaunch.zip) and unrar.

For each drive or network share you want an NMJ jukebox to start on its own, unzip the file for what section of NMJ to load and rename it to index.htm (if needed).
The file must be in the root folder, this will be the same share/folder where the nmj_database folder is located.

The rar file contains the following 4 files:-

index.htm - launches the moviewall
apps.htm - apps
photo.htm - photos
music.htm - music

MAKE SURE YOU RENAME apps.htm, photo.htm and music.htm to index.htm for it to work.

Remember that on boot the NMT will default to the last successfully accessed share/location. So if this is the same location as NMJ then it will autoload on boot as well as on entry to the share/location.

Known limitations

This applies for the first release, 8th of November 2010.

NMJ is only supported for HD TV, so the lowest resolution has to be 720p. If you have an old CRT you can also get it working, but you need to set your Resolution to 720p at the NMT Setup. The NMT will still output from S-Video or Composite to your CRT and will scale it down.

The NMJ requires read and write permissions to the media source volume, on a hard disk drive, Samba- or NFS Share.

The movie information is only collected from IMDB.com. At present no other sources are used. (Remember that you can use other tools to update the database, or edit it by own means.)

The scanning time may take several hours if there are many files present to index. Make sure you exclude directories not intended for scanning to cut down the time.

The NMJ is based on Adobe Flash lite technology, therefore it is not available on the older 100-series NMT's.

Apps Market

The Apps section of NMJ launches the Apps Market by pressing the 'Blue button. New Apps are added constantly and new channels to the likes of the Instant Video Apps. All you need is an internet connection; no additional hardware is required.

Once a new app is developed, it will be automatically available in the Apps Market. Many new Apps have already been added and new partners are encouraged with development of Apps.

My Apps - Your Apps Wall
- Personalize your Popcorn Hour media player by installing apps that interest you.
- This page contains all your installed apps, making accessing content you want to see fast and easy.

Apps Market take your pick from the displayed Apps.

Install Select, NMJ automatically download/installs.

Youtube App.

Featured Apps

Instant Video Apps

Channels.com
- Channel surf to your favourite genre and watch videos instantly online without any downloads.
- We have several apps that offer free HD streaming; no additional subscription required.

Video Sharing Apps

YouTube
- YouTube needs no introduction. Install the app and get access to all the video content YouTube has to offer.
- The YouTube app offers the same experience as the web page, allowing you to view the most popular videos or your favorites.

Video Game Apps

Tinpot
- Apps aren't just for video streaming. You can play classic style games right there on your Popcorn Hour media player:
  - Conga/Tinpot Radio/Quark Attack

Social Network Apps

Twitter
- Stay in touch with friends, family and the internet with social media apps like Twitter.
- Like everything on our box, our apps are designed for the 10 foot experience. You can sit back, relax and consume the content you want.

Weather Apps

WeatherBug
- Need to leave the house? Checkout our Weatherbug app for your local forecast!
- Just like watching the news, you can access a 7 day forecast.

Gallery of NMJ and Apps Market Screenshots

NMJ Gallery

Movie Wall View Movies displayed in Wall mode with Menu shown.	Music Wall View Music shown in Wall mode and by album.	Green Menu Pressing left when in Menu gives a further Menu with shortcuts
View Modes Press the Angle button and a pop-up appears to select from Wall, List or Category view.	Search Search for that file you cannot find.	Quick Search Press the alphanumeric remote keys to quickly search.
Ratings Give your movies ratings, just one of the functions plus a further way to categorise.	Edit Edit option available if not scanned correctly.	Play Choose your file and then seect that Play button!