Roku HD2000 manual Playlists, Getting Started

Playlists

A BrightSign playlist is a text file that ends in “.bsp” (BrightSign Playlist). It contains the names of the files to play, in the order they should play. Files are played in sequence, one after the next. This means that it is not currently possible to have a playlist that plays audio and a video at the same time, for example.

Getting Started

To play a playlist, you must have your content, the playlist, and the Roku autoplay script (autorun.bas) on your CF card. Playlists can be played automatically on startup (see the Autoplaying a Playlist section above), or scheduled for playback (see the Creating a Schedule for Auto Playing Videos, Still Images, Playlists, or CSV Files section above).

A simple playlist might contain just these lines:

slide1.bmp

slide2.bmp

slide3.bmp

This will play the file “slide1.bmp”, then “slide2.bmp”, then “slide3.bmp”, then it will loop.

The files don’t have to be bitmaps: they can also be video or audio files. You can also mix media types in a single playlist, and trigger GPIO pins in a playlist.

As well as filenames, there is a set of about 16 commands that can be in a BrightSign playlist. For example, the slideshow playlist above could be modified like this:

slideinterval 5 slide1.bmp slide2.bmp slide3.bmp

Now the playlist will pause 5 seconds between bmp displays.

slideinterval 5 slide1.bmp slide2.bmp slideinterval 2 slide3.bmp slide4.bmp

Now, the playlist will pause five seconds between slides 1 and 2, and two seconds between slides 3 and 4.

An example/demo playlist can be downloaded from our website:

www.rokulabs.com/BrightSign

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