Video wall synchronisation

Why sites want a video wall

A video wall uses several screens as one large canvas. A brand film can be split across all of them, or each screen can show its own part of a larger scene at the same moment. Hotel lobbies, mall entrances, showrooms and control rooms ask for this effect. The hard part is synchronisation: if the screens drift apart even slightly, the wall stops looking like one surface.

How it could work with MIA

Today each MIA screen plays its own program independently, and the player already uses the server's clock when it applies schedule rules. A video wall could be built on that base: splitting one piece of content across a grid of screens, allowing for the bezels, and making every screen start on the same frame. The screens could be defined as one group in the panel, content would still come from folders and programs, and changes would go out through the deployment flow you already use. The right method depends on your hardware. Some walls work best with a player per screen, others with one computer that has several video outputs.

What we need to know to scope it

• The layout of the wall: rows, columns, landscape or portrait
• Screen make and model, and bezel width
• A player per screen, or one computer driving the wall
• The content: video, images or live data
• How many walls you plan and where they will be

With this information we would suggest starting with a small test layout. Scope, timing and price are agreed for each project.