The CastanetTM Tuner

Quick Start

The Castanet tuner is the receiver component of the Castanet software distribution system. A tuner is a small Java application that does two main things:

Launching the Tuner

Start the tuner as follows:

Windows 95 and NT
Choose Start:Programs:Castanet Tuner:Castanet Tuner
Solaris
prompt> installdir/castanet/tuner/bin/tuner
MacOS
Double-click Tuner in the Castanet Tuner folder.

Using the Tuner

The tuner's user interface has three menus and five tabbed pages; clicking a tab opens a page. The most frequently used pages are Listing and Channels.

Use the Listing page to see the channels served by a transmitter.

Use the Channels page to manipulate and monitor subscribed channels. The channels are arranged by transmitter in a collapsible/expandable outline format. The Status column distinguishes subscribed channels (approximate size on disk or "running"), unsubscribed channels (hyphen), channels that are being downloaded (a progress bar is displayed), and channels that were not received successfully ("error").

Other important tuner operations:

 


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