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MultiQ DSMS 3.6 User Guide, Media players operated in standalone mode, Version 2, 18/08/2011
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6.5
Media spots
The MultiQ digital signage management system use a number of icons used for easy navigation
through the process of building your applications. In the following sections you will learn the basic
elements of creating your own application.
A media spot may be an image, a video clip, or a link to a web page that may be available on the
Internet or stored inside the media player or media monitor. Even an IP video stream from a security
camera or a live broadcasting IP stream may be regarded as a media spot.
All media spots used in the digital signage system are stored in the media archive. By clicking the
Media icon you get into the media archive where you can upload and define new media spots. In
the media archive you can organize the spots into folders that are adapted to your projects.
Figure 26. Media spots may be image and video files, local or external web hyperlinks or live IP video- or
audio streams
6.6
Playlists
To use the media spots in our media players we need to organize them and to decide how they are
going to be presented. In digital signage we use playlists. Playlists are looped sequences media
spots.
Media spots are organized into playlists. A playlist is a sequence of images, web pages and video
clips or even web links or streams that are repeated continuously. Therefore a playlist can be
regarded as a repeated (looped) sequence of spots.