Specifications

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Understanding Media Types

Notes

Large images may take several seconds to appear and may slow down the performance of the iCOMPEL. You should

always resize an image to match the size of the Zone before uploading it to the iCOMPEL.

Animated GIFs

Animated GIFs are not supported as image files on the iCOMPEL. If you want to use an animated GIF, you must first

embed it into an HTML page.

Adding Images to a Playlist

Before you can add an image file to a Playlist, you must upload it to the iCOMPEL. See Uploading content files for

details of how to do this.

To add a Image file to a Playlist, follow the steps for adding Media item files to a Playlist . After you add the Image file, it

appears on the Playlist. Use the Edit button to view and adjust the Image file properties as necessary.

Image file properties

When you add an image to a Playlist, you can set the following properties:

Mode

You can set the image display mode to one of these options:

Fit to Zone stretches the image size to exactly fit the specified width and height of the Zone. This may distort the image

because it changes the image aspect ratio.

Letterbox shows the entire image but preserves the original aspect ratio. Any space in the Zone not covered by the

image (the letterbox area) shows the Letterbox Color you set.

Crop preserves the image aspect ratio, but may cut off the edges of the image to display within the specified width and

height of the Zone.

The aspect ratio of an image is the relationship between its height and its width.

Letterbox Color

If you select Letterbox mode as the image display mode, the letterbox area is the area between the Zone edge and image

edge. The Letterbox area is shown in the Letterbox color you set.