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iCOMPEL Content Commander User Guide
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4. Enhancing Your Displays
You can enhance your digital sign display in various ways:
Synchronizing Playlist Displays Between Zones
Using Interactivity
Using the RS-232 Interface Port
Displaying Part of a Movie or Web Page
Changing the Screen Background
4.1 Synchronizing Playlist Displays Between Zones
You can synchronize the display between playlists in useful and sophisticated ways using rendezvous points and Advance
To commands.
Examples include:
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Displaying video or images in one zone and related text captions in another zone (for a method to achieve this, see
Automatic Captioning ).
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Displaying a selection of videos or images in response to ad hoc user input (for a method to achieve this, see Displaying
Video-On-Demand Using a Sub-Playlist ).
You can achieve further complex and powerful results with other of the rendezvous point and Advance To command
mechanisms:
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An Advance To command executed in any currently playing playlist (including in the same playlist).
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An Advance To command delivered over the player's Ethernet port in the form of an XML message posted to the HTML
TCP port.
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An Advance To command in a schedule entry or in an ad hoc page.
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A change in binary input lines on the RS-232 port initiating an Advance To command.
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An event on an attached touch-sensitive screen initiating an Advance To command.
4.1.1 Automatic Captioning
To implement synchronization between zones, you need to designate one playlist as the Master Playlist and one or more
other playlists as Slave Playlists . You add rendezvous points to each slave playlist and the identically named Advance To
command in the master playlist. When the master playlist reaches the Advance To command, the player forces the slave
playlists to start playing the first item after the rendezvous point.
To have the player perform automatic captioning, you have to use files with corresponding file names. For example, to display
captioning for a video file called
Marketing_Highlights_01.mpg
, you would need to create a file called
Marketing_
Highlights_01.txt
containing the text captions.
To set up automatic captioning between the zone playing the video and the zone playing the captions, first set up the video
zone:
1. Upload all the videos into one folder on the iCC.
2. Open the video zone's playlist page.