DC Media - Features

Wide Range of Content Support

DC Media™ supports over 35 multimedia formats including MPEG1, MPEG2, MPEG3 Audio,MPEG4, QuickTime, Windows® Media, Adobe Flash, Flash Video, JPEG's, PNG images, TIF images, Bitmaps, Digital Signs, Scrolling Ticker messages, Live TV, HTML (online and offline), PDF files and plug-in DLL's.

Content Management

Multimedia content is registered with customizable meta-data tags and can be searched on genre, language, title, description and meta-data values. Content can be grouped in categories and previewed before scheduling.

Content Authoring

The DC Media™ Sign Creator empowers you to create rich media and get your message across, integrate live data and capitalize on every pixel of your visual real estate. Combine images, text, shapes, audio and display effects to create great looking content within minutes. Text and image items can be linked to dynamic data sources including SQL, CSV, XML and DLL files developed using our extension API.

Scheduling and Playback

Using the DC Media™ Scheduler you can schedule by time and day, day of the week, day parting or simply just create a looped list. Schedule a wide range of content formats for playback in any number of layers to fit any display size and orientation. Inside each layer, content can be scheduled to play in a looped list, a list of day partings or according to a date and time selection. Layer Move instructions can be scheduled to create squeeze-backs and picture in picture layers while audio prioritization ensures that multiple content items don't compete for audio playback.

Date and Time Scheduling

Content playback can be looped or scheduled on a date and or time basis. Content expiry is also supported.

Day-parting

Looped playlists can be segmented using custom day partings.

Shaped Layers

Layers can be shaped using either a pre-defined list of layer shapes or a custom made layer shape mask.

User Access Control

The Scheduler and the Network Manager can have user access enabled requiring user login using a user name and password. User roles can be defined restricting users to specific activities.

Connectivity

Distribute content and playlists to individual players or groups of players over a LAN, WAN, the Internet or using reliable multicast over Satellite. The Player can also be configured to automatically upload content from a USB drive or DVD.

Management

DC Media™ Network Edition includes the Digital Signage Network Management for comprehensive network management.

Audio Priorities

Layers can be assigned audio priorities to ensure that the dominant layer has access to the audio output channel.

Unlimited number of Text Scrollers

Your digital signage display can have as many scrolling messages as you require, scrolling left, right and up.

Background Audio

Zone's containing only audio files can be displayed off-screen to create in-store music and background music solutions.

Plug-in API

DC Media™ can be extended with DLL files developed using a published API for hardware and software integration.

Encrypted proof-of-play

All proof-of-play records are encrypted on the player storage medium to prevent tampering.