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SYNCHRONIZED PLAYBACK
Multiple UHD Players can be frame synchronized via network to play multi-display presentations.
Even if one player goes offline and/or returns to online state at any time, it is automatically
resynchronized to the remaining players of the setup. There is no limitation to the number of players
that can be synced.
Basically, there is one player that is set up as the master and all others that should be synced to this
one will be set up as the slaves. Within a network, it is also possible to run several sync groups
separately from each other.
Fig. 45: Multi-display presentation showing four split videos synced to each other
To set up a multi-display presentation like the one represented in the picture above, please follow
the steps outlined below.
STEP 1: PREPARE THE CONTENT
To achieve a perfectly synced playback, it is important that all the files of the multi-display
presentation have the same file length and framerate!
The file names do not have to be identical, but it is recommended that they be named using the
same naming structure,
e.g. “Video
_1A
.mp4”, “Video
_1B
.mp4”, “Video
_1C
.mp4”
, etc. This is not
only to allow for a better overview but also in case there are several split files played without a
playlist.
