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XD HTML5 - GIF Animations?

JRB Technical

March 23, 2013 05:28

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Anyone using HTML5 with the new XD units, do Animated GIF's play?

If not, is there other options for simple image animations that work on the XD line? Java script slideshow?

A few clients have been wanted animated radar, and the HD players do not play animated GIF's and doing animated radar as a movie file takes up way too much bandwidth over time.

Looking for a possible HTML5 (content from a URL) solution that might work.  I don't have a XD unit yet, but one of my clients is willing to test some samples.

Just looking for input from others that may have any experience with simple image animations working on the XD players.

Thanks!

John

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  Romeo March 25, 2013 10:06

  Animated GIF are not supported.

  However I can confirm that the following “animated” content works well on the XD players.

  https://dl.dropbox.com/u/63797599/HTML5_Clock.zip

  https://dl.dropbox.com/u/3480052/Content/simple.zip

   

  Romeo

   

   

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  JRB Technical March 27, 2013 03:24

  How do the XD players handle image caching on HTML5 pages?

  Do they reload the images every time the page is cycled, or do they cache the images based on image file name?

  If I have a javascript slideshow of 6 radar images, and the names of the images are always the same, even though the images are updated every 5 minutes. Are the images going to update each time the HTML5 page is cycled through, or is it going to show the same first set of images that are now cached (like the HD players do/did with Media RSS images)?

  Just curious before I possibly waste the time of a client with XD players to test.

  Thanks!

  John

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  Lyndon March 29, 2013 14:44

  I"m checking on this. I believe it reloads them with the page cycle, but I'm not 100%.

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  JRB Technical March 29, 2013 15:04

  Also, if it does reload them every page cycle, does it honor the server HTTP header information?

  So if the item has changed, it will download the new image.  If the image has not changed, it will receive a 304 not modified, so the player will use the image it already has.

  Thanks!

  John

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  Lyndon March 29, 2013 16:55

   

  If you are updating the images with javascript,  the javascipt determines when the update occurs. 

  The unit behaves like a browser, if you reload a webpage from a url then it will reload.