Appendices

Appendix F – Mediacaster Feature List

      Mediacaster’s easy to use interface allows you to:

Manage multiple clients, players and channels

Control network access

Report on user access usage and Player activity

Monitor network status and players

Design multi-media Overlays for dynamic and eye catching displays

Schedule Playlists, Live Video and Designed Overlays in asymmetric and complex ways

Distribute media and Playlists in a store-and-forward mechanism on IP based networks

Remotely Manage digital signage networks through a web based interface

 

      Advanced Features

Allows VOD through a standard remote control

Instant messaging to broadcast emergency messages

Define Display Control Commands to turn the Player screens on and off

Define Operating Hours to turn Player screens on or off at certain times

Multilingual support

Split screen display

GPS triggered play lists for networks in motion

Custom defined event-based triggers for play back of context sensitive media

 

      Content Mediacaster Can Display

 

All the following media can be displayed individually or on the same screen

(all standard aspect ratio’s are supported – 4:3, 3:4, 16:9, 9:16):

Audio Formats

Advanced Audio Coding (AAC)

MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3 (MP3)

OGG

Waveform Audio Format (WAV)

Windows Media Audio (WMA)

Image Formats

Graphics Interchange Format (GIF)

Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG)

Tagged Image File Format (TIFF)

Windows Bitmap (BMP)

Video Formats

3GPP

Advanced Systems Format (ASF)

Apple QuickTime (MOV)

Audio Video Interleave (AVI)

Digital Video Disc (DVD)

Digital Video Standard Definition (DVSD)

Live Video Input

MPEG-1 Video

MPEG-2

MPEG-4 Part 10 (H.264, AVC1)

MPEG-4 Part 14 (MP4)

Picture In Picture (PIP)

Windows Media Video (WMV)

Flash

RSS Feeds

Dynamic tickers/crawls

High quality on screen text has anti-aliasing, alpha blending and image interpolation properties

PowerPoint files

Website URL’s

HD video formats including 480p, 720p and 1080i/p

Live Video Capture (DVD, Web Cams, and CCTV etc.)

Live analogue and digital television

XML, text file and ODBC data text feeds