Gilderfluke&Co 'Smart' Brick Animation Control System - Manual (Page 173)

Notice that after the LaserSearch command we have to then
tell the LaserDisk (or DVD) to start playing, and that this command
is followed by one <carriage return> character to be sent out.
Following this we tell the Smart Brick Brain to wait until it gets first an
‘R’, and then a <CR> back from the LaserDisk (or DVD) player.
After this we have a ‘00’ to tell the Smart Brick Brain that it has
found the end of the string.
A typical end string for a LaserDisk (or DVD) show is:
ST <CR> (R) (<CR>) end-o-string
Translated into HEX ASCII, this string becomes (this is what you
would enter):
53 54 0D D2 8D 00
and it would be displayed on the String Setup Menu as:
53 54 0D (52) (0D) 00
The format of this string is pretty much like that of the startup
string, except that there is no need to send the LaserSearch string
as was done at the beginning of the show, and the PL com-
mand has been replaced by a ST (still frame) command for the
LaserDisk (or DVD) player. This freezes the image to whatever the
last image on the video disk was. Other commands are avail-
able for blanking out the video, ejecting the disk, or a variety of
other things. You can even build up a string which will tell the
LaserDisk (or DVD) player to search for another frame on the disk
and freeze or start playing from that frame. If no command is
given to the LaserDisk (or DVD) player at the end of a LaserDisk (or
DVD) show, then the player will continue playing along until the
end of the disk is reached or another command is received.
As an example of how you combine more than a single
LaserDisk (or DVD) command in the same string, we will now show
a sample of a string which sends two commands at the same
time to the LaserDisk (or DVD) player.
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