Understanding Media Types; Media Directly Managed By The Icompel; Text - Black Box iCOMPEL 2U Series User Manual

iCOMPEL Digital Signage User Guide (V9.2.3)

3. Understanding Media Types

The iCOMPEL allows you to display a great many types of digital content (also referred to as media).
When creating a layout, you must specify the type of media each zone will display. This enables the zone to 'play' the
media concerned. You can configure zones to support one or more of these players:
Movie player – For media such as video and TV.
HTML player – For media such as web pages and tables.
Image player – For media such as graphics and photographs.
Text player – For media such as text and newsfeeds.
In addition to those media types, you can add audio to a layout using the Soundtrack feature (see
for more details).
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The iCOMPEL provides many features for setting up and managing the media items you want to use. It is important to
understand how the iCOMPEL handles groups of media differently depending on their types and characteristics:

Media Directly Managed by the iCOMPEL

Codes).
Media Run from the iCOMPEL Disk
pages, Adobe Flash files, and folder play).
Media from External Sources
3.1 Media Directly Managed by the iCOMPEL
Some types of media are managed directly by the iCOMPEL. These include:

Text

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Newsfeeds
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Clocks
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Tables
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RS-232 Outputs
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QR Codes
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Ad Hoc Content items are also managed by the iCOMPEL.
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3.1.1 Text
You can display text you directly enter on the iCOMPEL. (You can also display text files: see
details.)
Zone player type to enable: Text.
Playlist tab containing the item: Special.
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(includes text, newsfeeds, clocks, tables, RS-232 outputs, and QR
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(includes video, text files, images and photos, audio, presentations, HTML web
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(includes TV, radio, live video, multicast video, and external web pages).
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Audio and Radio
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Text Files for more
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