Display a Direct View LED Presentation

this page / section pertains to {{brightauthorconnected}} , our latest app for authoring and managing content and players for the legacy {{brightauthor classic}} app, refer to these links brightauthor classic docid\ av0cxmxbpmvcj7er4quvu , brightauthor classic docid\ d4ccoy1cpixccg5squceu , brightauthor classic docid\ yo5o7hck2ydata03vaahd overview led walls are comprised of modules which can be rearranged in multiple ways the final arrangement usually doesn’t correspond to a standard display resolution, so you will probably need to make some adjustments to get the desired resolution to do this in brightauthor\ connected, set a zone to the correct resolution, then configure your controller to scale standard resolutions from the player or apply a custom resolution to the player through a plugin these methods are described below create a zone see this page for brightauthor (legacy) instructions select a standard resolution and then create custom zone size that matches your output resolution this will give you better image quality and a better representation of your content to do this determine the led wall dimensions and the number of hdmi outputs on your player create a new presentation in the screens tab, select the number of screens based on the number of player hdmi outputs and how you want to display the content select a standard output resolution in layout settings that is equal to or larger than the desired display resolution switch to the layout tab and set the pixel size and dimensions of the zone to correspond to the number of pixels and dimensions in your display the size cannot exceed the maximum resolution for the player see the example below example this is a layout for an led wall that is 12064 pixels wide and 1872 pixels high the brightsign player has three 4k hdmi outputs, so this layout uses three screens screenshot 2024 04 15 at 2 23 45 pm png set the resolution in the controller to scale resolutions in your controller, see the customer literature and/or videos for that product (e g , novastar, samsung, etc ) note that there are a range of models which have different maximum output resolutions (for example, some take full hd input, and some take 4k input) you can use a custom resolution or use regular resolutions with custom zone sizes (higher end controllers support this, lower end controllers may not) set the resolution via a plugin to set a custom video mode in your brightsign player get the relevant modeline this is a list of parameters that describe how a display should be driven at a specified resolution see apply a custom resolution docid 58vplqm4sgh vgqvs4frs for information about how to get a modeline in linux or in brightauthor\ connected add that modeline information to a brightsign plugin see apply a custom resolution docid 58vplqm4sgh vgqvs4frs and the plugin example below for more information add the plugin create a presentation with the correct target player , a single screen, and an output resolution and frame rate (in layout settings ) that are similar the resolution you want in the layout tab, under properties , adjust the zone size to match your desired resolution, which must be less than 8k (see image 2, below) under presentation settings > support content , add the plugin that specifies the correct modeline add your content to the zone and publish your presentation screenshot 2024 03 20 at 3 54 29 pm png example sample plugin for series 5 players https //archbee doc uploads s3 amazonaws com/0prk6so2dy9ldu77jb8d1/hcvscsrvw3zun3dy j 92 setmultiscreenvideomode 7680x2160 30p brs