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Author Topic: FTP DCP to DSS 200 TMS Help Karl Belter Film Handler Posts: 21 From: Chillicothe, IL, USA Registered: Mar 2019 posted 05-27-2019 11:14 AM                     Have a indie movie playing tonight. Of course they did not get content to me early like I asked. They have DVD and it looks horrible. Have converted it to DCP with DCP-O-Matic. Server would not recognize my USP drive. So I am not trying to FTP the movie onto the DSS 200 TMS. I can FTP to the server, but I don't know where to put the files. Have a folder from DCP-o-matic with assetmap.xml and several others. Which files and where to I put them on the Dolby server?  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 05-27-2019 11:46 AM                     Drop the entire DCP folder (not the DCP-O-Matic folder) into the root directory and it will find it. Note - using NTFS is the easiest these days with DCPs. I'm not aware of any server that can't read them.  |  IP: Logged Karl Belter Film Handler Posts: 21 From: Chillicothe, IL, USA Registered: Mar 2019 posted 05-27-2019 11:48 AM                     THANKS FOR REPLYING!!!!!!! This little bit of info I could not find anywhere. So when DCP-O-MATIC finishes, there is a folder with the special name based upon the settings, that contains the produced files. Drop that folder, as a folder, into root? Or drop the files themselves into root?  |  IP: Logged Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 05-27-2019 12:27 PM                        If you open the DCP-o-Matic project folder, you will see something like this: You need to copy the highlighted folder (i.e. its equivalent in your project) into the DSS200. It doesn't matter if you copy the actual folder (i.e. create a folder in the directory you land in after logging on to the DSS200's FTP server), or just the files within, as long as you copy all of the files. For the FTP transfer, you need to make sure that the following settings are in place: Transfer mode = active, not passive Transfer type = binary, not ASCII Connection type = regular FTP, no TLS Authentication type = normal password authentication If you're using physical media, then as Brad points out, NTFS will work. The only gotcha is that if your flash stick or drive has an EFI partition on it, or the partition table is GPT (which it will be if the capacity of the drive is over 2TB), I think that the DSS200 might not be able to read it. I've certainly had problems with this in the past. The solution is to use GPartEd on a non-UEFI computer running a Linux-based OS to nuke the partition table, then to create a new DOS one, followed by one partition occupying the entire capacity of the drive. If you want to both write to it using a Windows PC and make it readable in most DCP servers, it needs to be NTFS. Again, on the physical media, it doesn't matter if you put the actual DCP files in the root of the volume, or copy the folder. I'm not sure how many folder levels down the DSS200 will look, but it's definitely at least two.  |  IP: Logged Karl Belter Film Handler Posts: 21 From: Chillicothe, IL, USA Registered: Mar 2019 posted 05-27-2019 12:35 PM                     You guys are all awesome. That was exactly what I was looking for. I was VERY hesitant to just put files on the servers. I rebuilt them a couple months back. I was crazy careful and scanned for virus/malware constantly.  |  IP: Logged Carsten Kurz Film God Posts: 4340 From: Cologne, NRW, Germany Registered: Aug 2009 posted 05-27-2019 01:12 PM                     https://dcpomatic.com/manual/html/ch14.html - Carsten  |  IP: Logged

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