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* Read topics covered in [[SMIL Tutorial]] and learn from [http://www.google.com/search?q=SMIL SMIL resources on Google]. | * Read topics covered in [[SMIL Tutorial]] and learn from [http://www.google.com/search?q=SMIL SMIL resources on Google]. | ||
* Learn about [[Wallclock]] scheduling which allows you to specify time blocks and repetition. | * Learn about [[Wallclock]] scheduling which allows you to specify time blocks and repetition. | ||
| + | * You can make the device a great market survey terminal by supporting [[Interactivity]]. | ||
* Advanced usage: learn about [[Animation]] for making crawls and [[Conditional play]] for finer control over each item in a playlist. | * Advanced usage: learn about [[Animation]] for making crawls and [[Conditional play]] for finer control over each item in a playlist. | ||
Latest revision as of 02:26, 1 December 2010
The following questions should help you find what you need on this website:
1. Do you need help in making a SMIL playlist?
- Read topics covered in SMIL Tutorial and learn from SMIL resources on Google.
- Learn about Wallclock scheduling which allows you to specify time blocks and repetition.
- You can make the device a great market survey terminal by supporting Interactivity.
- Advanced usage: learn about Animation for making crawls and Conditional play for finer control over each item in a playlist.
2. Are you playing back fixed content that doesn't change often?
- You can load content into player via a USB stick.
3. Are you updating the player via an on-site computer connected via a local area network (LAN)?
- Free sample code is provided in Microsoft C# to control the player via SOAP transport.
If you want to run your digital signage network across firewalls, you need to have your SMIL placed on a remote server and pulled by the player using Pull mode. Read on.
4. Are you trying to connect the SMIL player to your existing software?
- You may be able to translate your current playlist format into SMIL on-the-fly to feed a SMIL player. An example is provided to translate from existing MediaRSS feeds into SMIL.
5. Do you need to uniquely identify your player for licensing/authorization check?
- Read about how you can receive a player's ID as well as its model type (hence capability) upon connection.
6. Do you need to receive playback logs from the player?
- Read about in Reporting.
7. Do you wish to optimize player's download behavior to transfer files while foreground content is being played?
- Checking for Updates and restart playlist only when schedule is updated.
- Read about background file loading in Prefetch.
8. What's next? Try to do more SMIL and move up in Compliance levels.
