Roku HD2000 manual Playing Media with BrightSign, Auto Playing a Video upon Power-up

Playing Media with BrightSign

Media can autoplay from a CompactFlash card upon power-up, play via a script on a CompactFlash card, or be tested using the serial shell commands.

NOTE: On an HD600, video will come out the VGA connector, and the resolution will be 1024x768 unless you have changed this in your .CSV, Playlist, or Script, or by using the front panel video mode button. On an HD2000, video will come out the Component and HDMI connectors and the default video resolution is 720p. If your still image file resolution does not exactly match the display resolution (videomode), then they will be scaled to fit or centered/cropped, depending on the “imagemode” you have selected – see other sections of this manual. Video files will always be scaled to fit.

The following types of media can autoplay:

1.a single MPEG-2 video file (loops)

2.a playlist (also loops). A play list is a simple text file that contains the file names of still slides, video clips, or audio files to play. More information can be found later in this manual under Playlists.

3.a “.CSV” (comma separated values) file that you create using Microsoft Excel (or any csv editor such as OpenOffice or the editor hosted at http://csved.sjfrancke.nl/index.html). BrightSign can use this file format as a description of an interactive sign that responds to buttons, touch screen, mouse, track balls, etc. These are very powerful and easy to create without any scripting. The BrightSign Demo, which is available to download from our web site, uses this method.

4.a custom BrightScript file for arbitrarily complex interactive media sequences.

•Mpeg Video - Files must be must be MPEG-2. Files for the HD600 must contain an audio track - if you don’t need audio, use “silence”.

•MP3 Audio - Any audio (in a video or mp3 file) should have a sample rate of 48KHZ (or 44.1KHZ on the HD2000)

•Bitmap files - For still images, use 8-bit, 24-bit, or 32-bit .BMP file format, 1024x768 (or other resolution that matches the video mode you plan to use). Additionally, PNG files can be used on the HD2000.

NOTE: 8-bit bitmap files are only supported under HD600 software version 1.1 or later and HD2000 software version 1.0.4 or later. Beginning with Autorun.bas v1.1 and later, Autoplaying a list of images on startup requires the use of a “Playlist” or “.CSV” file.

Auto Playing a Video upon Power-up

To autoplay a video file on power-up or reset, do the following:

1.Copy the video file onto the root directory of a CompactFlash card and name it “autoplay.vob” or “autoplay.mpg”.

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