Backup image
How to set up a backup image in the SMIL Player to avoid a black screen when the SMIL file fails to download or contains invalid XML.
How to set up a backup image in the SMIL Player to avoid a black screen when the SMIL file fails to download or contains invalid XML.
SMIL features the expr tag for defining conditions during which a media item is played. This is can be applied to
How the SMIL Player caches media and widgets in device storage for offline playback, cleans up unused files, and supports the legacy prefetch tag.
The exclusive playlist allows up to one of its children to play. The start of one media object causes the currently playing item to either pause or stop.
In this guide, we will build a SMIL playlist that will feature regions, scheduled playback, widgets, and conditional playback.
Step-by-step guide to building and deploying your own fork of the signageOS SMIL Player from source code, including configuration and debugging.
signageOS SMIL Player supports multimedia objects, including videos, images, streams, video inputs, HTML5 widgets and HTML5 websites.
Overview of the open-source signageOS SMIL Player, its benefits for standardized playlist playback, and an example SMIL playlist structure.
The SMIL parallel playlist is a list of media objects that start playback simultaneously.
How to pass custom parameters into SMIL widgets by appending query string key-value pairs to the widget source URL in your SMIL playlist.
The wallclock module of SMIL supports using ISO-8601 date/time specification as part of its event triggers.
Smil player has option to turn on logging of major events which are happening during playlist lifecycle.
How to define screen regions and zones in a SMIL layout and assign media items to each region for multi-zone digital signage playback.
The layout of the screen is defined in the global header section of SMIL document.
How to define Nexmosphere sensors such as RFID antennas and buttons in a SMIL playlist and use them as triggers for playback conditions.
The sequential playlist is the simplest form of playlists in SMIL.
Smil player supports the synchronization of multiple devices within the same group connected to the synchronization server.
Triggers allow defining set of rules for triggering specific seq or par playlist.
From v1.4.0 you can use keyboard key presses as a trigger for activating content playback in SMIL Playlist.
From v1.6.1 you can use onClick/onTouch events as a trigger for activating content playback in SMIL Playlist.
How to update a SMIL playlist in PULL mode using the Refresh meta tag, including check intervals, expressions, and the onlySmilUpdate option.