BrightSign HD2000 User Guide User Manual

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Example 2 shows a presentation with five zones:
Zone 1 is the a main video zone.
Zone 2 is clock zone in the top right.
Zones 3 and 4 are the two image zones to the right.
Zone 5 is the RSS zone at the bottom.

The following explains each line in the Example 2 playlist:
• EnableZones: This must be the first keyword in your playlist when using zones.
• VideoMode: This keyword sets the video resolution (see

Playlist commands

for details).

• DefineZone: This keyword sets the location of the zones on the screen. For each zone, you

specify the following:

Zone type (VideoORImages, Images, Clock, Text, or RSS; see

What are zones?

for details.)

Starting position (in pixels)
Width and height (in pixels)

The syntax for the DefineZone keyword is:

DefineZone <zone_type> <rectangle_spec> <zone_param1> <zone_param2>
<zone_param3> <zone_param4>

When you’re defining an RSS zone, you must also specify the RSS feed you want to display in
addition to the size and location of the zone. All of this information must appear in the same
entry in the playlist. The syntax to define an RSS feed is:

DefineZone RSS 20,610,1250,90 3 0 4

http://news.bbc.co.uk/rss/newsonline_uk_edition/sci/tech/rss.xml

The three numbers after the RSS dimensions represent the following:

• 3 (1

st

number): Represents the number of lines to display

• 0 (2

nd

number): Indicates whether the text is animated or static (0 for animated, 1 for static)

• 4 (3

rd

number): Represents the number of seconds to display each segment

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