Images
The most popular image formats are supported. Please note that if you're using animated GIFs, they need to be embedded in a web-page.
When you prepare images make, sure they are as close as possible to 1920x1080px.
The full list of support images file extensions are:
- JPG/JPEG
- PNG
- PNM
- GIF
- BMP
Videos
Screenly Pro supports all major video formats and automatically encodes them for the best possible playback fidelity on your screen.
The full list of supported file extensions are:
- AVI
- MKV
- MOV
- MPG/MPEG
- MP4
- TS
- FLV
The best video configuration for Screenly is 1920x1080 30FPS max. video codec profile - "high", video codec level = 4.1, CRF = 20 - codec is h264 - audio = mp3.
Websites
Screenly is capable of rendering most websites. However, if the website uses too much JavaScript, playback performance and rendering are likely to suffer. To get the best possible results, keep the website as lean as possible and optimize it for 1920x1080.
When you want a URL to refresh each time it displays, you can make that happen by adding the URL asset two times and adding an image asset, (say a black or white screen or any other image asset), in between the URLs. You can find more details about this here.
How to login to websites using Screenly Pro
Unsupported Content
Although the following file types may work with Screenly to a degree, we do not officially support the following file types directly:
- Word
- Excel
- PPT
However, we have several suggestions for how you can best use these files within Screenly, including exporting as an image or uploading to Google Drive and publishing as a web asset. Please take a look at the use case here to discover these alternatives.
What about YouTube?
YouTube and streaming in general are also currently unsupported.