When the player is powered-up it looks for this file and follows whatever instructions it finds.
The key to using a BrightSign with a Mac is scripting: For each project, BrightAuthor exports a file called “autorun.brs” in the BrightScript scripting language. This situation is pretty terrible for galleries, museums, or artists.
#TEXTEDIT FOR MAC VIDEO UPDATE#
If you update a presentation in the future you need to re-author your project, export a new SD card, and probably update the firmware too. New players ship with outdated firmware, so your current shows won’t run on a brand-new player until you update the firmware. Most updates require a firmware update on the players and new projects are not backwards-compatible. You can’t re-use previously-authored SD cards by swapping video files. You really need to start a new BrightAuthor project for every show.īrightAuthor gets updated constantly.
If you have access to Windows, BrightAuthor is great for authoring complex presentations with playlists, interactivity & web data feeds, but it’s total overkill for multichannel synchronized playback.įurthermore, BrightAuthor exports your video file in an obfuscated format on the player’s SD card. Considering that video content is often edited on Macs, this decision seems strange. There is no Mac version and BrightSign doesn’t seem interested in making one.
#TEXTEDIT FOR MAC VIDEO SOFTWARE#
BrightSign provides the (Windows Only) BrightAuthor software for this. It comes to life as soon as you apply power, etc.) But there are some major pitfalls too … Trouble in Paradiseįor each presentation, the players need to be configured so they know what to do with your media.
For multichannel video presentations, the $350 HD220 player is perfect. But they can’t do multi-screen synchronization (except via HDSync replacement firmware).īrightSign makes industrial media players that support network features and complex interactivity. Inexpensive media players (like the WD TV series) are often used for looping presentations because they play most HD formats and have no fans or discs to wear out. It works great (and has been used around the world by artists, galleries and museums) but computers are expensive, complicated, and inherently unreliable. My MultiScreener software plays Quicktime movies on Mac computers, using ethernet to keep any number of computers playing in sync.
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