Pictures all picture formats, including formats with transparent background and animated picture formats
Videos playback of WMV, MPEG1, MPEG2, DIVX, MPEG4, MOV videos as well as streaming and HD videos
Microsoft PowerPoint Support of Microsoft PowerPoint presentations created with 2000-2007 versions of Microsoft PowerPoint. The player is able to playback multiple PowerPoint presentations simultaneously
Adobe Flash support of Flash animations with transparent background and online placed Flash files
Adobe PDF PDF documents are scrolled automatically based on a schedule
RSS and Text texts and RSS feeds are supported as slider or ticker. Tickers can be designed using different fonts as well as pictures. Tickers are able to run over video background
Web certain web page regions can be selected and dynamically displayed on the screens
TV analog and digital (DVB-T/ DVB-S/ DVB-C) television. The precondition is that a TV card is installed on the kiosk or player station
Templates
Animated templates animated customer specific templates with customer logos and colors can be created from the Adobe Flash files by a friendlyway reseller or a local media agency
Template albums the customer has an ability to attach different templates per drag-n-drop from multiple template albums attached to the software. The template album for organization can be delivered by a reseller, a media agency or by designers inside the organization
Online content and playlist creation with friendlyway @caster
Creation of spots using content templates animated broadcast quality advertising spots can be easily created in the web browser from a library of content templates, pictures and texts
Flexible playlist management playlist of spots can be easily defined by a simple sequence or a date range. Users have the ability to remove the spots from the playback quickly
Intelligent synchronization with player stations spots will be preloaded to player stations and constantly synchronized as soon as the online connection to the spot server is available
Content management and scheduling
Modern and user friendly interface the user interface significantly reduces the learning curve using Microsoft guidelines
Flexible display settings possibility to select display settings based on the aspect ratio or resolution of the target display. The content will be scaled to full screen automatically
Support of multiple displays software supports multiple displays with different content controlled with double or quad head graphics card or display wall controller
Timeline display time of media objects is indicated as a chart and can be easily customized using the mouse
Dynamic sequences software mixes the playlists automatically using repeat rate and time ranges during which the spots should be displayed
Scheduler content sequences can be assigned to certain day times or special events via calendar like in Microsoft Outlook
Media search service search service for the media on the DVD or in the corporate network.
Backgrounds it is possible to use colors, color transitions or pictures as a background
Background sound music or audio effects can be assigned to separate media elements
Visual effects it is possible to assign sliding or fading effects to whole pages or separate media objects
Playback
Performance a special technology cares for seamless playback of media objects without visual and loading effects
24x7 operation the player software has been developed to ensure 24x7 playback
Distribution and monitoring
Web based interface the player network can be controlled and monitored from the administration web console without further installation of software
Player monitoring kiosk and player stations are monitored around the clock. In case of failure, the playback starts immediately again. The information about the actual failures is sent to the service person per e-mail or SMS
Visual control screenshots from displays are sent live to the server and are available for visual control
Intelligent content distribution media projects are transferred incrementally with a reference to the download and validity time directly to kiosks or player stations
Automatic software updates software updates are transmitted and installed on kiosks or player stations automatically
