Quick Knowledge: What is a Digital Signage Player?
A digital signage player is strictly speaking a media player software, but there are differences to conventional media players.
How to create Responsive Digital Signage Content
In this tutorial, we will show you how to integrate videos and images from MediaRSS sources into an HTML5 page for responsive digital signage content.
Create Digital Signage Playlists with SmilControl.
In this tutorial we will cover the creation of digital signage playlists in SmilControl CMS. We will show you how to create a simple master playlist and assign it to a player.
Connecting SMIL media player with CMS
In this tutorial we will describe how you can connect your Digital Signage SMIL media player (IAdea or Garlic-Player) with the SmilControl CMS via the Internet.
Digital Signage Running Texts with SMIL
In the last articles we presented Digital Signage running texts, which got their contents from RSS feeds, with two modern HTML5 techniques. However, there are other alternatives, and we will show you two of them. One of these is based on SVG and SMIL. Since our digital signage products make intensive use of the SMIL …
HTML5 Canvas Running Texts with RSS
In this article “Canvas Running Texts with RSS” from our workshop “Series Digital Signage” Newsticker we use the technique learned from the first Canvas article and fill the Canvas context with content from an RSS feed.
HTML5 Canvas Running Texts (Part 1)
A canvas is a defined area in HTML5 in which Javascript commands can be used to draw. In this article we present an interesting alternative for Digital Signage Newsticker with the HTML5 element Canvas. Using canvas tickers brings advantages and disadvantages, which we will discuss in the following two articles.
CSS3 Running Texts with RSS
In the last article of our workshop about Digital Signage news ticker we learned the first basic technology for horizontal scrolling texts. It is based on CSS3 animations. In this article we will develop a real digital signage application by adding information from an RSS feed dynamically.
CSS3 Running Texts
Horizontal auto scrolling texts are frequently requested functionalities in everyday digital signage. They are usually displayed at the bottom of a multizone setup screen. In this article we will explain the technical basics for CSS3 running texts without Javascript animations using a simple example.
Channels with SVG and Feeds
This How-to covers the steps necessary to create and build a channel based on contents of RSS feeds and SVG templates. First of all we will explain some technical basics: SVG, template engine and RSS or Atom feeds. Afterwards, a practical example will be shown.