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Digital Signage
Digital Signage with Moschip Network Appliance Processors
Powered with Moschip's Network Appliance Processors and other companion chips, our Digital Signage solution allows the display of advertising or information, from the video output of DS Player onto a large screen display unit for public view. This offers superior return on investment compared to traditional printed signs and improve customer service.
The solution with MCS 8144 will be the first in the series. It can cater to Digital Display applications which support both Ethernet and Wi-Fi networks - making it easy to use as DS Player from Wired, Wi-Fi Networks.
Moschip's goal is to provide performance optimized, cost-effective (affordable) and reliable solutions. With the help of our superior customer/applications support team, we will help you bring your solution to market on time.
The complexity of Digital Signage systems varies and depends on the need. Following are few common elements used in these systems:
- Digital Signage Player
- Display (LCD/Plasma)
- Digital Signage Server / Remote console
- The Network (Wired/Wireless)
Basic Systems Configuration & Support
USB & PCIe Connectivity
- Two High-Speed USB host ports
- Fully complaint to EHCI and OHCI specification
- PCIe Host for Storage addition / WiFi sub-system, through companion chips
Network Connectivity
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Wired Network |
- 10/100 or 10/100/1000 auto sensing (Auto-MDIX capable)
- Fully compliant with IEEE 802.3-2002 specifications
- Hardware Acceleration for TCP/IP processing
- IP addressing: Static/DHCP
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Wireless Network |
- 802.11g/802.11n Wireless through PCIe or PCI based Wi-Fi Adapter
- IP addressing: Static / DHCP
Display Interface
- Support for connecting to LCD / Plasma display, through LVDS FPD Link / RGB / DVI interfaces
- Resolution supported
- QVGA (320x240),
- VGA (640x480),
- SVGA (800x600),
- XVGA (1024x768)
- WXGA (1366 x 768)
- Dual Display can be provided using Next Generation Companion Chip
- Supports Clone Mode for playing two different Videos
Software
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Embedded Firmware |
- Linux Kernel 2.6.15 based Embedded RTOS
- Web server for quick configuration and status reporting
- Web Server UI is password protected
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Digital Signage Software |
- Linux Based Digital Signage Server.
- Manages Media to be used by Digital Signage player.
- Holds database of play lists to control Advertisements on each DS Player
- Retrieves and processes data feeds for news, announcements, etc
- Holds a mirror of each DS player's content, ready to be synchronized with the remote DS Player Transmits content to DS players via TCP/IP
The Remote Management Console
- Allows the loading of content into the system
- Allows editing of the database
- Edit data about each DS Player
- Edit records for each advert and resources they require
- Edit and assemble play lists of adverts
- Create a queue of updates to be sent to the DS players
DS Player features
- Based on Open Source Universal media player application (M-Player)
- Ability to decompress different compressed video formats like MPEG-4
- Local storage for files downloaded from DS Server through USB HDD or PCIe based SATA/IDE HDD
- Synchronizes the content between DS Player and the DS Server
- Support for connecting LCD / Plasma display, through LVDS FPD Link / RGB / DVI interfaces.
- The DS Player will be always in sync with the DS Server. The player will get the play list and the media files after synchronization with the Server. The player keeps on playing the items in the play list in a round robin way.
Video Play back formats Supported
- MPEG-1 (VCD) and MPEG-2 (SVCD/DVD/DVB) video
- MPEG-4 ASP in all variants including DivX, Xvid
- MPEG-4 AVC aka H.264
- Windows Media Video 7/8 (WMV1/2)
- Real Video 1.0, 2.0 (G2)
- DV video
- MJPEG, AVID, VCR2, ASV2 and other hardware formats
- FLI/FLC
- VOB
Audio formats Supported
- MPEG layer 1, 2, and 3 (MP3) audio
- AC3/A52 (Dolby Digital) audio (software or SP/DIF)
- AAC (MPEG-4 audio)
- WMA (DivX Audio) v1, v2
- RealAudio: DNET and older codec's
DS Player Solution with MCS8144
MCS 8144 can be used to design a Remote Digital Signage Player, which can download Video/Audio and Image data from Digital Signage Server and play it on to LCD or Plasma television connected to its video interface.
The MCS 8144 based DS Player has a Gigabit Ethernet interface which can download AV Data from DS Server. The downloaded AV content is stored onto on to USB HDD or PCIe based SATA / IDE Hard disk.
Key features
- Two High-Speed USB host ports
- Dedicated EHCI and Companion (OHCI) Controllers
- PCIe Interface for WiFi Connectivity or a companion chip for second display
- Gigabit Ethernet (10/100/1000)
- LVDS FPD Link / RGB / DVI interface
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