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Overview

A video wall consists of 3 primary disciplines: the first is content three steps:

  1. Content production (slicing the
slicing of
  1. video to distribute it to multiple screens)
; the second is leveraging
  2. Leveraging software tools to
dist.
  1. distribute that content to hardware
; the last is the config. of
  2. Configuring the hardware to render these slices to present a cohesive
canvas known as a
  1. video wall
. BS has looked at these 3 disciplines and
with

BrightSign has created software and hw hardware to simplify this otherwise complex task. This documentation describes the primary methods available to BS BrightSign customers to create video walls using BS BrightSign software and hw. 

  • Legacy method: VideoWall Link/Synchronization method to create a video wall presentation with Series 3, 4, and 5 players in BrightAuthor:connected. This method is completely manual so it is completely unconstrained in terms of the number of screens and the screen rotation.
    • Using BrightWall with multiple players 

    hardware. You will want to select a method based on the BrightSign player you are using and the video assets you want to display.

    Video Walls with Multiple Players

    If you plan to create the BrightWall with multiple Series 3, 4, and 5 players.

    This is not limited to

    There are no limitations on the number of players, but

    is limited in that it

    this method can only produce a

    videowall of rectilinear nature

    rectilinear video wall (all screens must be portrait, landscape, all in the same orientation).

    1. Spreading one video asset across multiple boxes - using bw BrightWall only
    2. Playing multiple video assets (pre-sliced) on multiple boxes - using brightwall BrightWall with the mutli-asset Multi Asset widget
    3. Use the BrightWall Configurator (a video wall software wizard which easily lets you execute what would be a manual process) with either one or multiple video assets.

    Video Walls using XC5 Players

    Using BrightWall with a multi-headed player (for users of the XC5). This method is currently limited to

    4

    four screens, also of rectilinear nature (all screens must be portrait, landscape, all in the same orientation).

    BrightSign allows users to create video walls in a number of different ways. There are three primary methods, which are described on the pages below:

    You can use BrightWall, which works or the

    Manual/Legacy Video Wall Creation

    VideoWall Link/Synchronization is a legacy method to create a video wall presentation in presentation with Series 3, 4, and 5 players in BrightAuthor:connected.  

    These methods, as well as the BrightWall Configurator (a video wall software wizard which easily lets you execute what would be a manual process), which lets you view and adjust your presentation onscreen, are described on the pages below:

    Page Treeroot@selfThis method is completely manual so it is completely unconstrained in terms of the number of screens and the screen rotation.


    Note

    You cannot use BrightWall video creation methods if you are using standalone publishing, because you must be connected to a network (additional configuration is required after publishing the presentation).