Video Stream
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This page / section pertains to BrightAuthor Classic, our legacy app. BrightSign Author is our latest app for managing content and players.
Development of BrightAuthor Classic has largely ceased and the app will eventually be deprecated and replaced with BrightSign Author.
This state allows you to play an IP stream. All networked players can play streaming video. See this page to learn more about supported video formats and codecs for IP streaming.
- State Name: Specify a unique name for the stream state.
- URL for video stream: Enter a valid URL for the stream. The URL can also include a number of optional parameters:
- Specify a User VariableUser Variable to replace all or part of the URL. To include the value of the variable in the URL, enter the variable name between two sets of dollar signs (e.g. "http://www.example.com/streams/$$my\_URLvar$$").
- Append the "latency" and "jitter" parameters to modify the default latency (see this How-to for more details).
- Append the "buffersize", "vcdbsize", and "acdbsize" parameters to modify the default streaming buffer size (see this How-to for more details).
- Append the "lowlatency" parameter to reduce the default latency.
Please do not use ports 8888 or 9999 since these ports may be used by BrightSignOS.