Hello All,
This is my first post. I’ve been searching forum for a solution to my particular problem, but I don’t see any similarities to what I’m looking for. Maybe I’m just not using the proper search pattern.
What I’d like to do is to run CNN live TV on the windows client. I’ve gotten some success by displaying the entire web frame, but I want to use only the video portion.
If there is some available tutorial, I would appreciate it if somebody can point me to it.
Regards,
Darryl
Hi Darryl,
I am not familiar with this feed, so I don’t know if they provide some kind of embed link (video only) similar to what YouTube does, if they do your best bet would be to use embedded html module in Xibo and put in the iframe.
If they don’t then either embedded html / webpage module, but that will embed whole page, not only video portion(as you mentioned).
I guess you could use embedded html and then position it using html/css to show only the video portion of the screen.
There are couple of ways of doing that, you will find quite a few different guides when you type ‘position page within iframe’ (or similar) in Google.
e: or perhaps webpage module, with manual position and correct size and offsets (essentially the same result as embedded html with iframe)
Be aware that if the content provider isn’t openly providing the code for embedding it, they probably don’t want you to use their stream. You should check their terms and conditions to see if you can legally use the stream. Some news sites explicitly state you’re not allowed to use their streams in digital signage, and/or “surrounded by a frame”. Depending on the terms and condition, you may be allowed to show the stream if you’re showing their entire page along with it.