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Playlists

A BrightSign playlist is a text file that ends in “.bsp” (BrightSign Playlist). It contains

the names of the files to play, in the order they should play. Files are played in sequence,

one after the next. This means that it is not currently possible to have a playlist that plays

audio and a video at the same time, for example.

Getting Started

To play a playlist, you must have your content, the playlist, and the Roku autoplay script

(autorun.bas) on your CF card. Playlists can be played automatically on startup (see the

Autoplaying a Playlist section above), or scheduled for playback (see the Creating a

Schedule for Auto Playing Videos, Still Images, Playlists, or CSV Files section above).

A simple playlist might contain just these lines:

slide1.bmp

slide2.bmp

slide3.bmp

This will play the file “slide1.bmp”, then “slide2.bmp”, then “slide3.bmp”, then it will

loop.

The files don’t have to be bitmaps: they can also be video or audio files. You can also

mix media types in a single playlist, and trigger GPIO pins in a playlist.

As well as filenames, there is a set of about 16 commands that can be in a BrightSign

playlist. For example, the slideshow playlist above could be modified like this:

slideinterval 5

slide1.bmp

slide2.bmp

slide3.bmp

Now the playlist will pause 5 seconds between bmp displays.

slideinterval 5

slide1.bmp

slide2.bmp

slideinterval 2

slide3.bmp

slide4.bmp

Now, the playlist will pause five seconds between slides 1 and 2, and two seconds

between slides 3 and 4.

An example/demo playlist can be downloaded from our website:

www.rokulabs.com/BrightSign

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