Performance Mode : Optimize Content Playback

Performance Mode is designed to ensure smooth and seamless playback for consecutive images and videos. By pre-loading slides, it reduces lag and improves transitions, making it ideal for loop-like or streamlined content displays. On weaker devices, pre-loading can be disabled to mitigate hardware limitations of video sources—whether hard limits, like BrightSign, or soft limits caused by performance issues.

Experiment with the versatile playback control of Performance Mode! Customize your settings to match your specific use case and platform capabilities. Default values are optimized for most devices, providing a hassle-free setup. However, if adjustments are needed, you can fine-tune Performance Mode with configurable options.

Apply settings precisely where you need them for maximum control!

Enable Performance Mode at the Content level to optimize playback for that specific content while maintaining control over embedded Content or Contents Widgets, which won't automatically inherit the setting.

Similarly, activating Performance Mode on a Content or Contents Widget ensures seamless performance for its playback. However, if that same content is assigned to a different screen, it will remain independent, giving you full customization at every level.

Table of Contents

• Enable Performance Mode on Contents
• Enable Performance Mode on Content and Contents Widgets
• Enable Performance Mode on Campaign Widgets
• Parameters and Recommendations
• Limitations

Key Points

Performance Mode enhances playback by:

• Seamless Transitions: Pre-loading slides ensures smooth, uninterrupted playback.
• Efficient Playback: Simplifies content display for streamlined signage, reducing strain on weaker devices.
• Improved Customization: Fine-tune playback settings to accommodate specific device needs, such as BrightSign and Android.
• Layered Customization: Apply settings at the desired playback level:
  • Content Settings
  • Content and Contents Widgets
  • Campaign Widgets

Please note

Advanced interactions, dynamic durations, and certain content functions in Content, Contents, and Campaign Widgets (e.g., overlays or master pages) are not supported in this mode.

Enable Performance Mode on Contents

1. Navigate to Content tab.
2. Locate the Performance Mode section and the Performance Mode toggle.
3. Enable the toggle.
4. Adjust settings as needed using the tooltips and recommendations.
5. Save your changes.

Note A toast notification confirms activation.

• Interactions and dynamic page durations are not supported. Page jumping when widgets finish is also unavailable.
• Certain widgets, like the stopper widget, will activate during preload.

Enable Performance Mode on Content and Contents Widgets

1. Navigate to the Main tab of your widget.
2. Locate the Performance Mode toggle in the settings panel in the Performance Mode section.
3. Enable the toggle to activate Performance Mode for this specific widget.
4. Adjust settings as needed using the tooltips and recommendations.
5. Save your changes.

Note: A notification icon will appear on the widget once enabled.

• Only raw pages are rendered; overlays and master pages are not supported.
• Interactions within embedded content are disabled.
• Dynamic durations and “when widget finishes” actions are unavailable.

Enable Performance Mode on Campaign Widgets

1. Performance Mode is always enabled on Campaign widgets
2. Navigate to the Main tab of your widget.
3. Adjust settings as needed using the tooltips and recommendations.
4. Save your changes.

Parameters and Recommendations

Default values are optimized for most devices, ensuring a hassle-free setup. However, if needed, you can fine-tune Performance Mode using these adjustable settings:

• Pre-load Slides Enable performance mode to pre-load slides for faster, smoother transitions.
  • Default Value: Enabled.
• Animated: Performance Mode's Animated switch ensures consistent and uniform animations across contents by providing a dedicated animated toggle.
  • Default Value: Disabled.
• Video Pause Time Before Animation Starts Pause the video (in milliseconds) before the slide swap animation begins to prevent stuttering, especially on BrightSign devices.
  • Default Value: 0 ms.
• Pre-loaded Slide Overlap Time Start playback of the pre-loaded slide (in milliseconds) in the background before the swap if no animation is present.
  • Default Value: 200 ms.
• Trim Slide Duration by Overlap Time Adjust slide duration by subtracting overlap time, ensuring videos end seamlessly before the slide duration expires. Mainly used if slide duration is equal to video duration.
  • Default Value: Enabled.
• Allow Video Source Pre-loading Allow the player to pre-load video sources while the slide is pre-loading in the background.
  • Default Value: Enabled.

Recommendations
Below is a comprehensive table outlining use cases and issues, and the actions and parameter adjustments to solve them.

Description	Adjustment
Videos end early and stay on last frame for remainder the duration of the page.	• Enable Trim Slide Duration by Overlap Time if Overlap Time is not 0. • Disable if Overlap Time is 0.
Transition between full screen video pages flash on Android devices,while Pre-load and Allow Video Source Pre-loading are enabled.	Adjust Pre-loaded Slide Overlap Time to a higher value. • On Android x96 and x98 increase value to 400 ms
To avoid both hard hardware limits and soft performance-related limitations of video sources.	Turn off Allow Video Source Pre-loading. It is mandatory to disable on the following devices for playback: • BrightSign LS models • LG WebOS 4 models
Video stutters while animating the next page on BrightSign devices.	Set Video Pause Time Before Animation Starts to 100 ms.
Video's first few frames stutter after a page change on BrightSign or Samsung devices	• Adjust Pre-loaded Slide Overlap Time to a lower value or to 0. • Disable Trim Slide Duration by Overlap Time if Overlap Time is 0.
Videos vibrate and have 'ghost' effect on Samsung devices	• Adjust Pre-loaded Slide Overlap Time to a lower value or to 0. • Disable Trim Slide Duration by Overlap Time if Overlap Time is 0.
Last frame of a video in Videos widget freezes on BrightSign devices	Enable Performance Mode content-wide, default settings mitigate the issue

Limitations

Performance Mode is optimized for seamless playback but has the following caveats:

• Content and Widgets:
  • Only raw pages are rendered; overlays and master pages are not supported.
  • Embedded content interactions are disabled.
  • Dynamic durations and "when widget finishes" actions are unavailable.
• Pre-loading Behavior:
  Some widgets, like the stopper widget, will activate during pre-load.
• Device-Specific Issues:
  Weaker devices may require additional configuration to avoid lag or stuttering.