Slides

Every slide type and its options — images, video, YouTube, web pages, text, HTML and clocks.

A slide is one item that appears on screen for a while. Add slides from inside a playlist with +.

Common options

Every slide has these settings:

Option	Meaning
Name	Optional label shown in the editor.
Duration	Seconds on screen (1 s to 24 h). Default 10 s. Video slides can use Until video ends.
Transition	How the slide appears: none, fade (default), slide left, slide up or zoom.
Enabled	Turn a slide off temporarily without removing it from playlists.

Image

Shows an image from the media library.

Fit: cover fills the screen and crops edges (default), contain shows the whole image with bars, fill stretches it.
Background colour for the bars when using contain.

Video

Plays a video from the media library.

Muted (default on). Leave videos muted unless the screen has speakers and you really mean it.
Fit: contain (default) or cover.
Set the duration to Until video ends to play the whole clip once before moving on.

YouTube

Plays a YouTube video by its ID or link.

Start and end times in seconds to play just a part.
Muted (default on) and captions.

Warning

YouTube slides stream from YouTube, so they need an internet connection while playing. For screens with unreliable networks, upload the video instead — uploaded media plays from the screen's local cache.

Web page

Shows a live web page (http or https).

Refresh every N seconds while shown (0 = never) — useful for dashboards.
Zoom from 25 % to 400 % to fit pages designed for small or large monitors.

Some sites refuse to be shown inside other pages (they send X-Frame-Options or frame-ancestors headers). Info Display OS relaxes this for kiosk playback, but the editor preview may stay blank for such sites.

Text

Big, readable text without needing a design tool.

Title and body (up to 5,000 characters).
Alignment: left, centre or right; top, middle or bottom.
Font: sans (default), serif, mono or display, and a size multiplier from 0.5× to 4×.
Text colour and background colour, or a background image from the media library.

Text scales with the screen, so the same slide looks right on a 32" and a 75" display.

HTML

Your own HTML, CSS and JavaScript (up to 200 KB), rendered in a sandboxed frame. Scripts run, but the page can't access the player, cookies or other slides. Use it for custom layouts, small widgets or data feeds.

Clock

A full-screen clock.

Style: digital or analog.
Show date, show seconds and 12-hour format.
Time zone: any IANA zone such as Europe/Helsinki; defaults to the screen's own zone.
Text and background colours.

Tips for good-looking slides

Keep text short. People walk past signage; aim for something readable in three seconds.
Use high-contrast colours. Light text on a dark background works best in bright rooms.
Match your media to the screen group's orientation.