Content types
What is worth knowing about each kind of content: images, video, audio, PDFs, the office formats you have to export first, and apps.
- Apps Live, self-updating content, managed under Apps rather than in Content. It takes a duration, and its settings live on the instance.
- Spreadsheets Excel, Sheets and Numbers cannot be uploaded. Export a snapshot, or publish a live link when the numbers change through the day.
- Presentations and documents PowerPoint, Slides, Keynote, Word, Docs and Pages cannot be uploaded. Four ways to export them, and which one to pick.
- PDFs Upload a PDF and choose which pages play. Each enabled page becomes its own playlist item, and can be renamed or rotated.
- Audio MP3 and FLAC, scheduled like anything else. Where the sound comes out, and what to show while it plays.
- Videos Video is downloaded and played from the device, so it never buffers. Formats, encoding settings, 4K, and audio.
- Images The fastest content to get on a screen. Formats, the size to export at, and why a photo from a phone sometimes appears sideways.