Signagelive Virtual Player enables SMIL support

Signagelive has launched the Virtual Player, enabling full support for the latest low-cost SMIL open-standards digital signage hardware developed by Iadea.

The Signagelive virtual player is said to enable a low-cost solution targeted between 'lock and load' compact flash players and the full functionality offered by Signagelive Display Edition, running on a PC or a display with integrated Windows PC.

Low-cost solid-state digital signage players and small-format LCD devices can now be managed remotely alongside PC devices using the Signagelive platform over a standard fixed line or mobile internet connection.

Signagelive enables video and still-image content to be scheduled, deployed and played back on the SMIL devices including dynamically updated content from Screenfeed, Signchannel and Sky News in the UK.

In addition, the Signagelive Message Manager feature enables simple textual changes to preset templates to be made by multiple users contributing to the content displayed on the SMIL range of players.

To complement the support for the Iadea SMIL devices, the Signagelive Virtual Player client (developed using Adobe Flex) can be downloaded and installed on any Windows, Mac or Linux device and will emulate a SMIL device 100 per cent with playback and logging of all media.

For local sites with SMIL devices that are installed standalone without networking, the Signagelive Virtual Player client will enable a USB storage device to be inserted and media content to be transferred, enabling local USB update of multiple SMIL devices updating media content and retrieval and upload of playback log files to the Signagelive platform.

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