I'm building a system around the DMP model 4400. The DMP will get its content from a remote host. That content will be a web page containing Flash and MPG movies (MPGs encoded in the format required by the DMP).
 
We were told by Cisco support that images are cached by the DMP, but not movies. Our tests seem to confirm this. When a movie comes up in the playlist, the DMP will download it from the beginning (apparently trying to stream it, resulting in stuttering playback) even if it had been downloaded on a previous run through the playlist.
 
One solution we've tested has been storing the MPG media on the DMP, while serving the HTML page that will display that media on the remote web host. That way the latest text information could be retrieved from the remote host, while movie playback on the DMP won't be hindered by bandwidth limitations. However, pointing the DMP to a page at an HTTP address, and then having the page link to a local file path (on the DMP itself), doesn't seem to work. My guess is that it's some kind of crossdomain protection in Firefox.
 
It occurred that if the DMP can act as kind of a web server, and access its own content via an HTTP path, it might solve the issue. Is this possible?
 
Are there other solutions?

What's the path to the files via HTTP?
 
I've tried,
 
https://IPADDRESS:80/usb_1/FILENAME
 
and
 
https://IPADDRESS:80/FILENAME
 
but neither has worked.

Hi, Hashir.
 
We're not familiar with playlist.xml files. In our case, we're not using the DMM. The DMP is only acting as a browser and repository for large media files. So, if anything is contingent on administration via the DMM, we can't really use it. At least not beyond initial setup. Regardless, I would like to look at a playlist file, if you wouldn't mind attaching one to this thread.
 
In your tests of retrieving files across domains, is the HTML file stored on the remote server or locally? Our tests depend on the HTML file (that links to the content on the DMP and content stored elsewhere) being stored on the remote server.
 
We're also not familiar with the best practices document. What issues does using an HTTP path present? Can we safely test this method?
 
Thank you.
-MC

Thanks for the help. I'm looking at the documentation now.
 
I just want to clarify one point before I proceed. Were the HTML and playlist files located on the remote server or stored locally on the DMP?