Oxygen SMIL Player

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The Oxygen SMIL Player is an open a-smil player implementation based on Silverlight, that is meant to be connected to a digital signage CMS like Oxygen media platform or others supporting a-smil.

It is currently in "alpha" state, which means that it is neither feature-complete nor tested very well!

[edit] Installation

The Oxygen SMIL Player can be installed directly via your browser. Just go to http://smil.oxygennext.com and press "Install player to Desktop". Choose the location where you want the shortcuts to be placed and press "OK". When the Oxygen SMIL Player is installed a new window is opened.

[edit] How do I use the player?

Okay, you installed the player and propably already noticed the textbox that says "Enter Smil Player Url here". To get this URL you have to follow the steps starting at point 5 in create a SMIL player in the Oxygen Management Suite. After adding the player to your team just copy the SMIL URL into the textbox and press start. The player will immediately start playing your content - in case you already added content in the footage section.

[edit] Options

There are different options you can choose from before you start the player.

Autostart Playout on next startup: Starts the playout after starting player without pressing "Start"
Make Player Fullscreen: No need to explain, right?
Hide Error Popups: Hides every error message. This ensures you won't see any ugly error messages.
Enable automatic software updates: If enabled, the player will always look for an update before starting.
Force Software Update: Manually start a software update by pressing this button.

If you embedd the Smil Player on your own website you can also set all parameters via html. just add this line:

[edit] Supported file types, codecs and platforms

[edit] Platforms

Framework:

Silverlight 4.0
Novell Moonlight

Operating Systems:

Windows
Windows CE
OSX
Linux(using Novell Moonlight)
Symbian OS

Browsers:

Microsoft Internet Explorer
Firefox
Google Chrome
Apple Safari
Opera
Skyfire

[edit] File types

Video:

Windows Media
MP4

Picture:

JPG
BMP

[edit] Codecs

Windows Media Codecs:

"353" - Microsoft Windows Media Audio v7 v8 and v9.x Standard (WMA Standard)
"354" - Microsoft Windows Media Audio v9.x and v10 Professional (WMA Professional)
Raw Video
YV12 - YCrCb(4:2:0)
RGBA - 32 bit Alpha Red, Green, Blue
WMV1: Windows Media Video 7
WMV2: Windows Media Video 8
WMV3: Windows Media Video 9
- Supports Simple and Main Profiles.
- Supports only progressive (non-interlaced) content.
WMVA: Windows Media Video Advanced Profile, non-VC-1
WVC1: Windows Media Video Advanced Profile, VC-1
- Supports Advanced Profile.
- Supports only progressive (non-interlaced) content.
H264 (ITU-T H.264 / ISO MPEG-4 AVC)
- Supports H.264 and MP43 codecs.
- Supports Base, Main, and High Profiles
- Supports only progressive (non-interlaced) content.
- Supports only 4:2:0 chroma subsampling profiles.
- Supports PlayReady DRM with Mp4 (H264 and AAC-LC)