Xibo - creating school background & showing live news/TV

[craynerd]

I`ve just installed Xibo and I`m attempting to use it to run the 4 displays we have around school in place of the current PowerPoint loops we have running. I`d like a custom background but creativity is not really my thing. Our school colours are black and gold and we have a school crest - I can just envisage the display windows with the school crest and name at the top in a narrow header. Are there any companies or individuals who can make a background image for us that we know will be suitable and work? I`m currently using just a black background and it looks ok!

 

As part of the drive on SMSC, I`d like to show live BBC/Sky news for certain periods of the day, say at lunch and break and maybe more frequently on a separate screen if we set one up in the waiting room entrance. The searching I`ve done suggests I`d need a TV card on the client computer but is there no way of streaming from an online BBC feed or similar method?

 

I`d really appreciate any help or suggestions!

 

Cheers

Edited December 5, 2014 by craynerd

[JordanT91]

I believe you can show a web site on Xibo, have you tried pointing it to BBC iPlayer or similar and resizing it so it only shows the video element?

[fiza]

There have been threads on here before about streaming BBC and Sky. Have a look at this one

 

http://www.edugeek.net/forums/general-chat/36295-anyone-using-xibo.html

 

Somewhere in there are snippets of code to make it happen.

 

Couldn't someone in your Art or CDT Dept create something for you?

Edited December 5, 2014 by fiza

[craynerd]

Thanks for the information and hopefully this lifts it back to the top.

 

I am now using the info in the link above to display Sky News live feed from YouTube, which is acceptable but not quite as desirable as the BBC news. However, if Sky News is my only option, do you know if it is possible to run with subtitles? Sky news tend to have quite a static "top stories" bar at the bottom and so the content doesn't`t really match the info in the bar. Subtitles would be great.