Permanent Link Settings

This dialog lets you control how you want to use permanent links with your file in your Mezzmo library.

Permanent links are links that can be shared with others in web sites, blogs, Facebook, Twitter, etc. and will provide a link to that particular file at all times.

Warning: If you intend to share permanent links for files from your Mezzmo library on the internet, be careful that your Mezzmo server does not become too congested with many requests for your files. Your home internet connection, your internet monthly bandwidth limit, your computer resources and/or Mezzmo server may all not be able to cope with such high traffic situations.

The Public access key is a unique identifier that lets you control permanent links. If ever you decide to stop sharing your permanent links, then you just need to create a new Public access key using the Reset button.

Important : Once you create a new Public access key, any permanent links you have share will no longer work and you will have to share new permanent links for your files.

Tip: You only need to change the Public access key if you wish to stop users accessing your permanent links.

Click this button to create a new Public access key.

Click to test whether permanent links work or not.

Your computer may use multiple network adaptors - for example, a wired network card and a wireless network card. To restrict acces to your permanent links a particular network adaptor when accessing your Mezzmo server, choose the network adaptor that you want permanent links to connect with to your Mezzmo server. If you are unsure, then select Automatic.

Device profiles contain all the configuration settings that Mezzmo needs to know in order to stream music, videos, photos and subtitles for permanent links. They have been created by Conceiva software engineers after testing the device with Mezzmo. Each device profile contains the audio, video, and image formats that the device supports. Mezzmo uses these settings to transcode incompatible files to a suitable format so that you can stream practically any type of media file to the device.

Important: For best results, we recommend using the Web Access device profile for permanent links. It has been tested with all popular web browsers.

Click this checkbox if you want your permanent links to display a web page with the video player expanded to fit the page size.

Click this checkbox if you want artist and album information displayed for your music permanent links.

Click this checkbox to allow or deny the access to permanent links from your Mezzmo server. There are three states for this checkbox:

• Allow user to connect (Deny): people cannot access permanent links from your Mezzmo server.
• Allow user to connect (LAN Only): people can access permanent links from your Mezzmo server when they are on your your home network.
• Allow user to connect (Allow): the people can access permanent links from your Mezzmo server on your home network and outside your home network.

Tip: You will need to set this checkbox to Allow user to connect (Allow) if you want to share permanent links on web sites, blogs, Faceboom, Twitter, etc.

Use the Subtitles tab to set how subtitles are supported by permanent links when streaming to web browsers.

By clicking this checkbox, Mezzmo will attempt to stream video files with external subtitle files to web browsers. External subtitle files are files located in the same folder as your video files. Mezzmo supports all popular external subtitle file formats, including SRT, SMI, TXT, XML, etc.

Tip: Go to the Options dialog (Subtitles page) to set the external subtitle setting for all your user accounts and devices.

By clicking this checkbox, Mezzmo will attempt to stream video files with embedded subtitle channels to your web browsers. Embedded subtitle channels are contained inside your video files. Mezzmo will stream embedded subtitles to a web browser when streaming external subtitles is not possible for your device. Mezzmo supports all popular embedded subtitle formats, including SRT, SMI, DVD, Blu-ray, etc.

Tip: Go to the Options dialog (Subtitles page) to set the embedded subtitle setting for all your user accounts and devices.

By clicking this checkbox, Mezzmo will burn subtitles into video files and stream them to your web browsers. Burning will occur when streaming embedded or external subtitles is not possible for your web browsers.

Tip: Go to the Options dialog (Subtitles page) to set the burning setting for all your user accounts and devices.

The list of languages that you want to stream for your permanent links. This is only used When you want certain subtitle languages delivered to permanent links.

For example, if you may want to have German subtitles streamed, then you would set the preferred language to German.

Click the Edit button to change the preferred language list.

Tip: Go to the Options dialog (Subtitles page) to set the preferred subtitle language for all your user accounts and devices.

The list of languages that you want forced to be burnt into your videos for permanent links. This may be useful if your web browsers are not capable of displaying characters from certain languages. For example, your web browsers may not be able to display Chinese or Korean fonts/characters when streaming embedded or external subtitles, so forcing them to be burnt fixes the problem.

Click the Edit button to change the language list.

The list of video containers that support streaming embedded subtitles and the list of video containers that do not support streaming external subtitles for your web browsers. The default list is as specified by the selected device profile for permanent links.

Click the Edit button to change the video container list.

The list of embedded subtitle formats, external subtitle formats and encodings that are supported by permanent links. The default list is as specified by the selected device profile for permanent links.

Click the Edit button to change the subtitle formats list.

Use the Transcoding tab to turn on/off transcoding for permanent links.

Click this setting to instruct Mezzmo media server to transcode media files that are incompatible so that they can be played on web browsers. For example, if your web browser only supports MPEG-4 video, then Mezzmo will transcode all MKV, AVI, etc. video files to MPEG-4 video so that they can be played.

Click this button to delete all the transcoded files that have been created by Mezzmo or Mezzmo media server specifically for permanent links.

Click this button to reset all the preferred transcoded files for permanent links. When you pre-transcode a file for permanent links (or when Mezzmo media server auto-transcodes a file for permanent links), the transcoded file is automatically set to the preferred status. When a transcoded file has a preferred status, it tells Mezzmo media server that only the particular transcoded file is to be presented and streamed to the web browser for that permanent link - and no other variation of the original file.

Tip: You can reset the preferred status for an individual files using the Properties dialog (Transcoding tab).

Use the Homepage tab to customize the default artwork for permanent links. People will see this artwork when viewing permanent links.

Type a default title for permanent links.

A restricted number of HTML tags are supported:

• <strong>this is bold text</strong>
• <font color=“yellow”>this is yellow text</font>
• <a href=“http://www.mezzmo.com” target=“_blank”>this is a link</a>
• <em>this is emphasized text</em>
• this text ends with a line break<br>
• <p>this is a paragraph</p>
• <div>this is a div<div>

Type a default description for permanent links.

A restricted number of HTML tags are supported:

• <strong>this is bold text</strong>
• <font color=“yellow”>this is yellow text</font>
• <a href=“http://www.mezzmo.com” target=“_blank”>this is a link</a>
• <em>this is emphasized text</em>
• this text ends with a line break<br>
• <p>this is a paragraph</p>
• <div>this is a div<div>

Lets you change the backdrop image used for permanent links:

• Add Picture: Click to use an image from your hard disk.
• Get Internet Artwork: Click to view possible artwork from searching internet web sites.
• Delete Picture: Click to remove the current backdrop.

Use the Performance tab to fine-tune how Mezzmo server streams to web browsers for permanent links.

If you are finding that your permanent link videos are stuttering or not playing smoothly in web browsers, then you can use the Maximum bitrate setting to reduce the video bitrate when files are transcoded. This reduces the video data transmitted and also the CPU and memory requirements for transcoding video files.

Use the Presets button to choose common network bandwidth values. Choose the value that matches your home network (or external network if you are streaming externally).

Tip: It is recommended to set the maximum bitrate to about 20-30% lower than the maximum bandwidth of your home network (if streaming on your LAN) or external network bandwidth (if streaming outside your home). This will help ensure that transcoded videos can be delivered stutter-free on your home network.

Important:

• The maximum bitrate value should not exceed the bandwidth of your home network (or your external network if streaming externally). If it does, then Mezzmo may produce transcoded videos that stutter on your devices or web browser since your network is not able to deliver the video data quick enough.
• Mezzmo uses the maximum bitrate value when transcoding videos. This applies to both transcoding on-the-fly and pre-transcoding.

The maximum video size setting assists performance when transcoding and streaming to web browsers for permanent links. Transcoding to a smaller resolution is faster than transcoding to larger video resolutions. And, streaming smaller resolution video files is faster that streaming larger resolution video files.

Use the Presets button to choose popular video resolutions.

If your permanent link videos are playing on web browsers with the wrong aspect ratio but you know that the video has the correct aspect ratio, then you can click this checkbox to get Mezzmo to correct the aspect ratio before streaming to web browsers. When checked, Mezzmo will analyze the SAR (Storage Aspect Ratio) for the video file and change non-square pixels become square pixels (1:1). This setting has three modes:

• Unchecked: No aspect ratio correction will occur.
• Fully checked: Aspect ratio correction will occur for all video files delivered to your web browsers. This means all videos will require transcoding.
• Part checked: Aspect ratio correction will only occur for incompatible video files that require transcoding. Compatible videos will not be changed.

Click this checkbox if you want folder and playlist artwork delivered to your web browsers. Artwork for folders and playlists can be set in Mezzmo using the Properties dialog for a folder or playlist.

Use the Advanced tab to specify what files are delivered to web browsers for permanent links.

Important: These settings are for advanced use only. It is strongly recommended to use the default settings as they provide the best operation and performance.

When a web browser connects to your Mezzmo media server and browses your library of files and playlists, Mezzmo media server delivers the contents of playlists and folders to the web browser. At this time, Mezzmo media server describes the type of each media file that is being browsed so that the web browser can decide to play it or not.

These advanced settings let you fine tune what information is sent to web browsers about the formats for your media files.

These file formats are fully supported by the web browers, as defined in the selected device profile for the media device. For example, a video file contains a video stream and audio stream that are fully supported by the web browsers.

• Always Deliver - always deliver a description for fully supported files.
• Never Deliver - never deliver a description for fully supported files.

These file formats are partly supported by the web browsers. For example, a video file may have a video stream that is fully supported by the web browsers, but has an audio stream that is not supported. In this case, the file's audio stream will be transcoded by Mezzmo to a supported format (as defined by the device profile).

• Always Deliver - always deliver descriptions for these transcoded files.
• Never Deliver - never deliver descriptions for these transcoded files.
• Automatic Delivery - only deliver descriptions for these transcoded files if no fully supported description (above) for the same file has been delivered.

These file formats are preferred by the web browsers. For example, it may be known that a particular web browser plays transcoded MKV video files better than any other format that it supports, so it makes sense to transcode incompatible video formats to the MKV format where possible.

• Always Deliver - always deliver descriptions for these transcoded files.
• Never Deliver - never deliver descriptions for these transcoded files.
• Automatic Delivery - only deliver descriptions for these transcoded files if no partly supported format (above) or no fully supported description (above) for the same file has been delivered.

Web browsers can support many video, audio or image formats. This setting controls whether you want to deliver all possible formats, as defined in the device profile. For example, for a particular video file, this setting will deliver all possible video formats (e.g. MKV, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4) so the web browsers can choose itself what format they want to play.

• Always Deliver - always deliver all possible formats for a file.
• Never Deliver - never deliver all possible formats for a file.
• Automatic Delivery - only deliver all possible formats for a file if no preferred format (above), or partly supported format (above) or fully supported description (above) for the same file has been delivered.

The DLNA standard specifies certain baseline formats that a DLNA certified device must support. This setting controls whether you want to deliver the DLNA baseline formats to the web browsers.

• Always Deliver - always deliver the DLNA baseline formats for a file.
• Never Deliver - never deliver the DLNA baseline formats for a file.
• Automatic Delivery - only deliver the DLNA baseline formats for a file if no all possible formats (above) or preferred format (above) or partly supported format (above) or fully supported description (above) for the same file has been delivered.

The selected device profile specifies the audio, video and image formats that the device supports. If a file is not supported, then this setting controls whether you want to deliver incompatible formats. For example, the device profile may state that your web browsers do not support DivX video, but after a software update or addition of a plugin/extension for your web browser, it may support it now. In this case, you may want to deliver non-supported formats until you get a new updated device profile from Conceiva.

• Always Deliver - always deliver descriptions for non-supported formats for a file.
• Never Deliver - never deliver descriptions for non-supported formats for a file.
• Automatic Delivery - only deliver the non-supported formats for a file if no DLNA baseline formats (above) or all possible formats (above) or preferred format (above) or partly supported format (above) or fully supported description (above) for the same file has been delivered.