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iCOMPEL Digital Signage - User Guide (V8.1.1)

8. Click the Save Changes button.

Setting up the Text Zone for automatic captioning

Before you begin this procedure, create a text file with a caption for each video file. The text file must have the same name

as the video file. For example, for a video file named Marketing_Highlights_01.mpg you must create a text file named

Marketing_Highlights_01.txt with the caption you want to display.

To set up a Text Zone for automatic captioning, follow these steps:

1. Place all the text files into a folder on the iCOMPEL. This can be the same folder that contains the video files.

2. Click on the text Zone to open its Playlist for editing.

3. Select the Files and Folders tab.

4. Click on the Add button alongside the name of the Folder with the videos to add it as a folder-play item.

5. Select the Playlist tab.

6. Click the Edit button for the folder.

7. For the Item Synchronization option, select Slave - track changes to Master.

8. Ensure that the duration is set to Play indefinitely and that the text style is set to Show indefinitely.

9. Click the Save Changes button.

4.1.2 Displaying Video-on-demand using a sub-playlist

You can use the Ad hoc mechanism to configure the iCOMPEL to show videos on-demand (in response to a button-

click) by using a series of Advance to commands . The same mechanism can also be used to set up images or any

other media type to be displayed on-demand.

Sub-playlists

You can create a loop, or sub-playlist, by inserting both a Rendezvous Points at the beginning of a sequence of items,

and an Advance To command at the end of the sequence in the same Playlist. This means that the items in the sequence

are displayed in a continuous loop indefinitely, or until another Advance To command from somewhere else instructs the

iCOMPEL to break out of the loop.

An example of the sequence of items in a Playlist is as follows:

Rendezvous Point Start

Default Movie item

Advance To Start

Rendezvous Point Option1

Option1 Movie Item

Advance To Start

Rendezvous Point Option2

Option2 Movie item

Advance To Start

In this case, the Default Movie item would play in a continuous loop, until an Advance To command from an Ad hoc page

caused the Playlist to advance to Rendezvous Point Option1 or Option2. At the end of the Option1 or Option2 item, the

Playlist would return to Rendezvous Point Start.

Creating a Sub-Playlist list

To create a sub-playlist loop, follow these steps: