signageOS SMIL supported features and limitations

Necessary attributes in SMIL playlist

• region name has to be specified in one of these two ways

<region regionName="widget12"..../>
<!-- OR -->
<region xml:id="widget12" .... />

Supported features

• sequential and parallel play of audio, video, image and widget
• supports simple layering ( z-index ) with videos always played on background ( lowest level )
• pairs all media with proper regions from layout part of SMIL, if no region specified, uses values from root-layout tag 
• plays media in endless loops if necessary ( one element as well as multiple )
• supports prefetch event ( plays intro while downloading rest of the files )
• downloads all necessary files from remote server, stores files in local storage
• downloads and extracts of widgets into local storage
• checks for changes in provided SMIL playlist as well as checks for all files linked in SMIL
• ability to restart on SMIL playlist change
• supports media scheduling using wallclock definition
• supports media scheduling using conditional expressions
• supports playing media loops using repeatCount attribute, possible to combine with wallclock
• ability to use relative paths to process files, e.g.: src="folder/img.png"
• triggers and sensors by Nexmosphere
• keyboard based triggers
• mouse based triggers
• synchronization playback and failover content
• priority playlist = excl and priorityClass tags
• animated transitions between images and widgets
• reporting logs using signageOS api
• web widgets

NOT supported features

• all videos are running in foreground, now it's not possible to place a widget on top of video at this moment
  Do you need to play a video in background? Follow this workaround.

Full SMIL reference table