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--- mezzmo_android_settings [2020/02/17 23:42]
admin [Use audio passthrough]
+++ mezzmo_android_settings [2020/02/17 23:58] (current)
admin [Keep device awake]
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 ==== Use hardware acceleration ====
-Select this setting to use your device's hardware acceleration features when playing videos using Mezzmo's built-in video player.  Using hardware acceleration can provide better playback performance (for example, less stuttering on high bitrate video files).  However, if you notice audio sync issues or other playback issues, try turning hardware acceleration off.
+Select this setting to use your Android device's hardware acceleration features (if available) when playing videos using Mezzmo's built-in video player.  Using hardware acceleration can provide better playback performance (for example, less stuttering on high bitrate video files).  However, if you notice audio sync issues or other playback issues, try turning hardware acceleration off.
 ==== Use audio passthrough ====
-Select this setting to turn on audio passthrough. When turned on, the audio channels from your videos will not be converted for playback in Mezzmo's video player.  This is useful if you wish to deliver the original audio channels to your home theater's audio receiver for 7.1 or 5.1 sound.
+Select this setting to turn on HDMI audio passthrough. When turned on, the audio channels from your videos will not be converted for playback in Mezzmo's video player and will be kept in their original form.  This is useful if you wish to deliver the original audio channels to your home theater's audio receiver for 7.1 or 5.1 sound via HDMI from your Android device.
 ==== Queue all videos in current folder when playing====
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 When Mezzmo Android displays subtitles using it's built-in video player, you can customize how to display the subtitles using the following settings.
-=== Select font ===
+=== Show subtitles if available ===
-Choose the font that you want subtitles displayed with.
+Select this setting to automatically display subtitles if present in a video when playing the video.
+=== Text Color ===
+Select the text color of the subtitles.
 === Text Color ===
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 Select this setting to display web pages within Mezzmo Android.  When deselected, you will be prompted to choose the web browser app installed on your Android device to view web content.
+==== Keep device awake ====
+Select this setting to force your Android device to stay awake when playing music, video and photos.  This can be useful to stop if your Android device enters sleep mode after a period of time and stops playing your files.
 ==== Enable logging  ====
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 When selected, Mezzmo Android's own media server will auto rotate images that have rotation metadata embedded in their files before streaming them to devices.
+==== Scale images for local files ====
+Select whether you wish to scale images stored on your Android device to a certain size.  This is useful if you wish to stream photos from your Android device to other devices in your home (such as a TV) and these devices cannot display large sized images.
 ==== Start Local Server / Stop Local Server ====
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 Touch or click to change the attributes that you want to use when searching a Mezzmo server for files to play.
-==== Version ====
+==== Build & Version ====
-The version number of Mezzmo Android installed on your Android device.
+The build and version number of Mezzmo Android installed on your Android device.