Remotely Restarting the Media Server
You can restart the Vū Media Server software remotely from Vū Studio without needing physical access to the Windows machine. This is useful when the server is unresponsive, or after a software update.
Restarting from Vū Studio
- Open Vū Studio and connect to the player
- Click Settings (gear icon)
- Click Restart Media Server
- Confirm when prompted
The Vū Media Server software on the Windows machine shuts down and restarts. This takes about 10–15 seconds. Once restarted, the player will show the splash screen and reconnect automatically.
What Gets Restarted
Restart Media Server performs a full restart of the Vū Media Server software and all of its internal components. Everything comes back up together so the system reconnects correctly.
Restart vs Full Application Restart
The Settings page offers two options:
| Option | What it does |
|---|---|
| Restart Media Server | Restarts the Vū Media Server software |
| Restart Application | Full restart — same as above plus any OS-level services |
Use Restart Media Server for most situations. Use Restart Application if a full restart is needed after a system update or persistent issue.
If Remote Restart Doesn't Work
If the remote restart button doesn't respond:
- On the Windows machine, press the Start button, right-click the Vū Studio icon in the taskbar, and select Close Window
- Wait 10 seconds, then relaunch by clicking the Vū Studio icon on the desktop
- Refresh your browser tab to reconnect
See Connection Troubleshooting → for more detail.
Remote Playback Controls for a Cast Folder
This section is separate from the Media Server restart described above: it covers the playback controls the Remote gives you over a folder that is playing on a player.
When you cast a folder to a player, the assets directly inside it play as a sequence, one after another. Drag the folder onto a display in the Display Dashboard (one.vu.studio/dashboard — click the Vū Studio icon to go Home → click Display Dashboard in the left sidebar); the drop target reads Cast folder as playlist, and once the sequence is running the display's node carries a Playlist Playing badge.
While that sequence is running on the active player, the side remote (the slide-out panel on the right of the Display Dashboard and the Asset Library) swaps its usual single-asset transport bar for a playback card. The card shows the sequence's name, thumbnail, how many items it holds, and whether looping is on, above a row of three controls: the loop button on the left, the main transport button in the middle, and Stop playlist on the right. Below them sit a Seconds per item slider (how long each image holds, 1–20 seconds, default 4) and a Volume slider. While a freshly cast folder is still being resolved the card reads Starting… and the controls are briefly unavailable.
Stop Resets to the First Asset
Stop playlist rewinds the sequence to its first asset and stays stopped there.
It does not end the cast. The folder stays loaded on the player and the display node keeps its Playlist Playing badge, so pressing Play playlist afterwards starts again from the first asset rather than from wherever you stopped. This mirrors stopping a single video, which returns the playhead to the start instead of blanking the display.
The reset reaches the asset currently on screen as well: a video that was playing when you pressed Stop playlist actually halts and returns to its own start, rather than continuing underneath a stopped sequence.
Loop Off Plays Each Asset Once
The loop button on the left of the row switches between Loop on and Loop off, and the card's subtitle reads Looping or Loop off so you can see the current setting without hovering.
With loop off, pressing Play playlist on a folder shows each asset once, in order, and playback stops after the last one — the sequence does not wrap back around to the first asset. That is what you want for a single pass through a folder: a one-time run of a set of slides or clips that ends cleanly on the last item.
With loop on, the sequence returns to the first asset after the last one and keeps cycling until you stop it.
Either way, images hold for the Seconds per item duration while videos always play in full and ignore that timer — the card notes Images only — videos always play in full.
The Controls Follow the Player You Open
The playback card reflects the state of the player you are currently looking at, not just a cast you started in this tab.
Open a second player that is already casting a folder — switch to it on the Display Dashboard, or open it in a fresh browser session — and its playback card appears with that player's current state: the folder's name and item count, whether it is playing, and whether looping is on. You do not have to have started that cast yourself, or from this browser, to take over its controls.
Assets Play With Their Saved Configuration
An asset played as part of a cast folder plays using the configuration saved on that asset, instead of falling back to default values when the sequence reaches it. Settings you saved against an asset in the library — its adjustments and playback settings — are applied as it comes up in the folder, so a clip that was set up once looks and sounds the same whether you cast it on its own or as part of the folder it lives in.
Previewing Before You Cast
You can open a saved playlist in the Remote and step through the same controls without selecting or connecting a player, which is a useful way to check a sequence before it reaches a display. See Previewing a Playlist in the Remote → for how that works, and Playlists → for building and saving playlists as library objects in their own right.