PRG Mbox EXtreme - Manual (Page 49)

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Content Management
Overview
The Mbox Extreme Media Server offers a flexible media folder structure. Media can reside locally on
the Mbox Extreme server hardrive or on additional hardrives or storage devices connected to the
Macintosh® G5 computer.
At startup, the Mbox Extreme application performs a media scan to search all folders that reside within
the /Mbox/Media folder that resides on the main hardrive of the Mbox Extreme Media Server.
Additional media can be attached to the main /Mbox/Media folder through aliases. Aliases must be
linked to folders on the supplemental media, it cannot be aliased to files. Also, an alias cannot refer to
another alias. The main /Mbox and /Mbox/Media folder must reside on the local hardrive and cannot
be aliases.
Note: The initial media scan allows for the locations of files to be resolved at startup, therefore the
"distance" of a file from the main folder has no effect on the time required to find a file.
Each time the Mbox Extreme Media Server completes a media scan, a text file is created with all
media files found and their corresponding combined file numbers. The text file can be found at /Mbox/
MboxExtreme_Media_List.txt
CAUTION: All media content on the Mbox Extreme media server should be backed-up to an external
drive.
Folder and File Numbering
Video and image files are located within the /Mbox/Media folder on the Mbox Extreme main hardrive.
They are arranged into individual "Library" folders. Each folder must be named beginning with a
unique 3-digit index value between 001 and 254.
Note: The Library folder beginning with 255 is reserved for live video access commands.
In turn, each file within the Library folder must contain a 3-digit index value between 000 to 255.
 Mbox/media
001.videos
001.rain

002.drops
etc.