Instruction manual

IS-SPX-1000/1300 Inspired Signage XPress Players

IS-SPX-1000 & IS-SPX-1300 Inspired Signage XPress Players

Formats, Codecs and Encoding Parameters

File Formats

The officially supported multimedia file formats across all devices are:

Notes:

VOB files must not be encrypted. Also, VOB files containing AC3 audio must have the audio trans-coded into

a suitable format like AAC, or have the audio track removed.

M4V is an Apple proprietary format which is unsupported, but for non-DRM-protected M4V and M4P files,

often the file can be renamed to .MP4 and work correctly.

Codecs

The degree of support of the video codecs offered by each type of HMP is further detailed below:

To test if a video is compatible with the HMP, drag and drop it into a project in HMD

with the appropriate HMP target set. HMD will either import the video or report why it

is not compatible.

File Formats

Audio file formats AIFF, MP3, M4A (or MP4), WAV and WMA.

Video file formats AVI, ASF, MOV, MP4, VOB and WMV.

Codecs

Audio codecs • AAC - up to 6 channels input; the following AAC profiles are supported: (MPEG-2 Part 7) Low

Complexity Profile, (MPEG-4 Part 3) AAC Profile and High-Efficiency AAC Profile version 1 

(HE-AAC v1).

Note: HE-AAC v1 requires firmware 2.2.5 or later. HE-AAC v2 is not supported.

• MPEG-1/2 Layer III (MP3) - the previous versions: MPEG-1/2 Audio Layer II (MP2) and MPEG-1

Audio Layer I (MP1) are supported as well

• Linear PCM (LPCM)

• ITU-T G.711 and G.726

• Windows Media Audio (WMA)

Video codecs • H.264 (H.264/MPEG-4 Part 10 or AVC)

• MPEG-4 (Part 2) or MPEG-4 Visual

• MPEG-2 and MPEG-1

• Windows Media Video 9 (WMV3) - Simple and Main profiles, Low and Medium levels;

Not supported: Main Profile @ High Level (MP@HL) and the Advanced Profile (WVC1 / VC-1

Advanced Profile).

• Motion JPEG (MJPEG) - interlacing is not supported and for QuickTime formats only MJPEG-A is

supported (MJPEG-B is not supported).