Options - Streaming

The poster image width and height edit boxes allow you to customize the size of the thumbnails generated and stored by Mezzmo for video, music, photos, folders and playlists that you add into your Mezzmo library.

The default size is 320 x 320 pixels. It is recommended to keep this size.

The DLNA default size for thumbnail artwork is 160 x 160 pixels, although newer DLNA devices now accept and display artwork thumbnails that are larger (for example, Panasonic Viera TVs and Samsung TVs).

Enter a custom width and height in pixels for the poster images that are generated and stored by Mezzmo when you add files into Mezzmo or when your maintain your Mezzmo library.

Note: Existing files in your Mezzmo library will not have the new poster image size until your perform a library maintenance.

Larger-sized artwork thumbnails will only be delivered to a DLNA device by Mezzmo media server if the associated device profile for the device has been modified to increase the width and height of the JPEG_TN image definition. If you are unsure how to do this, please contact Conceiva customer support.

The backdrop image width and height edit boxes allow you to customize the size of the backdrop images generated and stored by Mezzmo for video, music and photos that you add into your Mezzmo library. Backdrops are used by web browsers and Mezzmo (Android) app.

The default size is 1920 x 1080 pixels. It is recommended to keep this size.

Enter a custom width and height in pixels for the backdrop images that are generated and stored by Mezzmo when you add files into Mezzmo or when your maintain your Mezzmo library.

Note: Existing files in your Mezzmo library will not have the new backdrop image size until your perform a library maintenance.

When Mezzmo streams a file to a device, the play count of the file in Mezzmo is incremented after a certain portion of the files is streamed. The play count lets you determine the most played files, the least played files and the files that you have never played as yet.

Enter the minimum portion of the file that needs to be streamed by Mezzmo to a device to automatically increment the play count for a file.

Tip: You can display or reset the play count for a file using the Properties dialog.

You can use this list of languages to tell Mezzmo the audio languages that you wish to hear when you stream a video. Mezzmo will automatically select the audio language when transcoding or streaming a video to your web browsers or devices.

Example: You only speak English so you want English language audio played whenever possible. When a video has multiple audio channels, then Mezzmo will make sure the English audio channel is used for transcoding and streaming.

Click this button to add a preferred audio language to the list.

Click this button to remove a preferred audio language from the list.

Click to move a language up in the preferred audio language list. Higher listed languages are more preferred.

Click to move a language down in the preferred audio language list. Lower listed languages are less preferred.

Click to update all your video files with your preferred audio language settings. This is useful when you make a preferred audio language change, Mezzmo will scan through all your video files and check for those audio languages in the video files and set them to preferred audio language.

When selected, Mezzmo will make sure that the video only contains the preferred audio languages and does not contain any other audio languages. This is useful if your device does not let you select the audio channel via it's remote control when the video is playing on the device.

By clicking this button, the default values will be applied to this set of options.