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The Korbyt platform supports a wide variety of options for showing video content, some options require specific media player or third party encoder hardware.

Local Video Files, Web Based, and Streaming Content:

Our Layout Builder tool allows users to pull in video content from a wide variety of online sources including with a variety of Builder Elements: Stock Video from Pixabay or Pexels, YouTube, WebEx, Zoom, External Websites, and HTML5 content. More information on the Builder Elements available can be can be found in the Layout and Message Builder Elements article.

Network Based / Local Video Input:

Korbyt also supports traditional network-based input methods including: HLS, DASH, UDP, and HDMI input. To see how these video source are formatted for a screen review the How to Use the Video Element in a Layout article which describes how to add Video to a screen design (position and size among other screen elements)

Korbyt can also process HDCP content via our hardware partner Brightsign. The Brightsign XT/XD series players allow HDCP content ingest via HDMI or UDP streams.

The Below chart gives examples of the type of video content and playback and the hardware options that can support it.

Local Video Content to Multiple Displays

To send local video content out over a network of players you will need to work with one of Korbyt’s Audio/Video partners. These partners can help choose the necessary third-party hardware to send video streams to our players. Input formats including: HLS, DASH, UDP, and HDMI.

Please review the Video System Diagrams at the end of this article for more details.

Video On a Playlist

With the Video Element now added to a Layout, you can use any available Playlist options to control when/where those layouts with video elements are seen.

For more information on Playlist creation and management read the Configuring a Clever Playlist article

Video System Diagrams

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Introduction

In this article we will show you how to transcode videos that have a bitrate higher than the allowable limit of your tenant.

The default bitrate limitation of a Korbyt tenant is a bitrate of 5 mbps (5 megabits per second)
This default limitation on video bitrates within Korbyt ensures that the media players can playback the video smoothly.

If you load a video to the Media Manager that is over the allowed bitrate the file will have a red exclamation mark next to the thumbnail

If a Video is too high a bitrate it will need to be transcoded to a lower bitrate before it will play.

Option 1:  Quick and Easy – CurtConvert Through you Tenant

The Transcode action button to the right of video files will allow you to download the video file from the tenant so that it can be transcoded on your local computer.

If you require the CurtConvert software contact Support@Korbyt.com to be sent the software.

You will then be able to install the application on your computer.

Using CurtConvert

Use this program to convert your video file with one single step. This will re-encode the video file an allow it function in all channels of Korbyt.
 

• Click on the large [+] button and select your video that you wish to re-encode.
  
  • This will use the file explorer on your computer
• Select the Codec
  
  • If the video is an extremly high bitrate you may have to select one of the Webm codec (formats) to achieve a bitrate below 5 Mbps
• Click on the Folder Icon to choose its destination folder.
  
• Click CONVERT at the bottom of the page.
  
• Upload the resulting file to your Korbyt Media Library.

Other Options

There are other programs available to transcode video files, you do not have to user the Korbyt provided CurtConvert.

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