Using a remote control
DVD
Compact Disc (CD)
Generating the multimedia libraries
Cover extraction
Screen saver
Tips and tricks

Using your remote control

SesamTV Media Center can entirely be controlled with your remote control's four direction buttons (up, down, left, right) and the "action" button.

More info about remote controls.

DVD

SesamTV Media Center does not contain its own DVD software decoder. SesamTV Media Center's DVD is working with all common DVD software decoders.

In order to use the DVD application, a DVD player and its software decoder must be installed on your PC. This DVD software decoder is usually delivered with the DVD player package.

Compact Disc (CD)

The audio CD must be inserted into the first CD player of your PC to be fully fonctional.

Generating the multimedia libraries

To display your hard drive multimedia files whithin SesamTV Media Center, you must first build the multimedia libraries.

building the audio library
building the video library
building the photo library

Cover extraction

In SesamTV Media Center, media lists (audio, video and photo player) can be rendered by text or by cover. The covers have to be in jpeg format.

AUDIO:
For audio player, each album can be represented by a graphical thumbnail: the album cover. For each album, the graphical thumbnail is extracted with the following priority:
- jpeg which has the same name than the album in the same directory.
- jpeg with the name "cover.jpg" in the same directory.
- first jpeg found in the same directory.

VIDEO:
- The jpeg which has the same name than the video file is selected to create the cover thumbnail.

PICTURE:
- The pictures thumbnails are automatically created from the pictures files.

Screen saver

When starting SesamTV Media Center, the windows screen saver is automatically deactivated. SesamTV Media Center has its own screen saver management process. This one is activated after 3 minutes when SesamTV Media Center is the active application and if no media is played. If a media is currently playing, the application will switch in full screen mode after 3 minutes.

You can modify the SesamTV Media Center's screensaver by replacing file "Sesamtv.scr" located in "windows/system32".

Tips and tricks

- The right mouse button is always used to switch multimedia window into "full screen" mode. If you are in "full screen" mode, the right mouse button is used to come back into "normal screen" mode.

- In "Full Screen" mode you can modify the video size by using the "UP" and "DOWN" arrow on the keyboard or the remote control.

- In "Full Screen" mode you can also use the "ENTER" or "ESC" keys to come back into the "normal screen" mode.