View Documents, Photos, or Videos
With File Station, you can view documents, videos or photos easily.
To switch the way items are displayed:
You can switch between list view and icon view to change the way items are displayed in the main area. Click the List View button at the top-right corner to arrange files into a list or click the Icon View button to display them in accompanying icons and text.
You will see thumbnails of photos in icon view under the following conditions:
- The photos are located within indexed folders listed under Control Panel > Storage > Media Indexing > Indexed Folder, and Media Server is installed on your $_DSPRODUCTNAME_$.
- The thumbnail data stored in the EXIF entries created by your digital camera are available.
To view documents in Google docs:
Simply right-click the document you want to open and choose View in Google docs.
Supported formats:
Google docs Viewer supports the following formats: doc, docx, odt, ppt, pps, xlsx, pdf, tif
To view documents in Office Online:
Simply right-click the document you want to open and choose View in Office Online.
By using Office Viewer to view Microsoft Office documents hosted on your $_DSPRODUCTNAME_$, you can access these documents with Office features intact in a web browser without the need to have Office installed on your computer.
Supported formats:
Office Viewer supports the following formats:
- Word: docx, docm, dotm, dotx
- Excel: xlsx, xlsb, xls, xlsm
- PowerPoint: pptx, ppsx, ppt, pps, pptm, potm, ppam, potx, ppsm
Note:
- To view documents in Office Online, make sure you have enabled QuickConnect. If not, please log into SRM and go to Network Center > Internet > QuickConnect & DDNS.
- Word and PowerPoint documents must be less than 10 MB; Excel must be less than 5 MB.
- The document's file name must contain only letters and numbers.
To preview photos:
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Right-click a photo and choose Preview to open the Photo Viewer window.
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Hover your mouse over the bottom of Photo Viewer to reveal the thumbnail sliding bar for quick navigation.
Supported formats:
Photo Viewer supports the following formats:
- For the photo shared folder: jpg, jpeg, jpe, bmp, gif, png, tiff, tif, arw, srf, sr2, dcr, k25, kdc, cr2, crw, nef, mrw, ptx, pef, raf, 3fr, erf, mef, mos, orf, rw2, dng, x3f, raw
- For other folders: jpeg, png
To play (preview) sound files:
- Double-click on one or more sound files to open them with Audio Player. Alternatively, you could also play sound files right-clicking a sound file and selecting Play.*
Supported formats:
Audio Player supports the following formats:
- mp3, m4a, m4b, ogg, wav, flac, ape, aiff, aif, wma
To play videos:
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Right-click a video and choose Play to open the Video Player window.
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The video should start playing right away. If not, please make sure you have installed VLC Player (Windows) on your local computer.
Note:
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While installing VLC Player, make sure you have ticked Mozilla plugin and ActiveX plugin.
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VLC is supported by the following browsers:
Windows: Internet Explorer, Firefox, Google Chrome
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If VLC is installed on your computer, and you are connecting to SRM with a supported web browser, Video Player supports the following formats: avi, dat, mkv, vob, asf, wmv, mov, qt, divx, flv, swf, rm, rmvb, mpg, mpeg, mpeg1, m1v, mpeg2, m2v, mp2, dvr-ms, m2ts, mts, m2t, ts, tp, trp, mpeg4, m4v, mp4, 3g2, 3gp, 3gp2, webm, mpe, xvid
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If VLC is not installed on your local computer, video player will play videos supported by HTML5. Please refer to here for HTML5 videos supported by different web browsers.
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If you connect to SRM via the HTTPS protocol, you need to import a trusted certificate (at Control Panel > Services > Certificate) to be able to play videos with File Station.
- VLC does not support HTTPS streaming.
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If you have a subtitle file with the same name and in the same folder as the video, or your video contains embedded subtitles, you should be able to see the subtitle during video playback. If you want to use another subtitle, choose it from the drop-down menu.
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* Unavailable on certain models.