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Understanding Media Types

3. Understanding Media Types

You can use various types of digital content with your iCOMPEL.

Media players

Content is often referred to as Media. There are five basic media player types that can be enabled for a Zone which are:

Movie player (content types include video , TV , live video , and multicast video (IPTV) )

HTML player (content types include web pages , Flash , and tables ),

Images and photos player (images )

Text player (content types include text , and RSS newsfeeds , Clocks )

You must enable the correct media player for the Zone in order to display the media.

In addition to these players, you can add audio to the Layout using the Soundtrack player (audio , radio ), and

presentation can be played by exporting them to video using the 'Save as video' feature. in PowerPoint 2010

iCOMPEL behavior and media types

Understanding the ways that different types of content items are managed by the iCOMPEL can help you know how to add

and manage different types of media items.

Items directly managed by the iCOMPEL include: Newsfeeds , Clocks , Tables , directly entered Text and

RS-232 output signals

Items displayed from files on the iCOMPEL hard disk include: Video , Text files , Images and photos ,

Audio , PowerPoint , Flash files , and Folder play

Items that are run from external sources include: TV , radio , live video , multicast video and web pages

3.1 Media managed by iCOMPEL

Some types of media are managed directly by the iCOMPEL. These include:

Clocks

Tables

Text

RS-232 output items

Ad hoc content items are also managed by the iCOMPEL.

3.1.1 Text

Player Type

Text

This section deals with text items entered directly on the iCOMPEL.

For other uses of text see:

Text files

Newsfeeds

Text characteristics

Text can be added to a Playlist and shown in a Zone on the Screen.

The text can be either scrolling or stationary, and can scroll either horizontally or vertically.

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