Solutions

At the heart of our solutions is MyCast, our digital signage software.

Description

MyCast is a 100% Swiss digital signage web platform, entirely developed by our teams in Geneva over the past 15 years.

Through its intuitive interfaces, MyCast allows you to manage, with a few clicks and from anywhere, all types of media (images, videos, web pages, templates, RSS feeds, weather, etc.) on a network of screens.

MyCast has the advantage of being completely customizable to meet the needs of your industry, your communication strategy and your specific requirements.

Features

  • Medias

    • Intuitive tree-based media management.
    • Create folders/subfolders and assign rights.
    • Easy media search.
    • Detailed data sheet.
    • Easily add media by drag and drop or with a media selection button.
    • Download media.

  • Playslists

    • Intuitive playlist creation with drag-and-drop media on a timeline.
    • Adjust media duration with a simple mouse gesture.
    • Manual setting of media duration in hours, minutes, seconds.
    • Playlists can be added to other playlists.
    • Preview feature.
    • Random media distribution.
    • Manage media validity dates.
    • Choice of transitions between media.
    • Access rights management.

  • Schedule

    • Daily schedule or Advanced Schedule by date.
    • Add playlists or media in an ergonomic calendar.
    • A calendar can be defined for each screen.
    • The same schedule can be broadcast to a group of screens.
    • Possibility to schedule on screen zones (see below).
    • Scheduling preview.
    • Adjust the display duration of playlist/media with a simple mouse gesture.
    • Detailed manual setting of the display time according to several variables.
    • Information on the number of broadcasts.

  • Control center

    • Intuitive, visual interface with thumbnails of all screens sorted by group.
    • Color-coded display of operating status.
    • Search box for quick access to a specific screen.
    • Remote control of screens / players.
    • Remote sleep / wake-up.
    • Remote control lock management.
    • Remote player / screen memory management.
    • Updating screen/player firmware.
    • Individual or grouped control to manage several screens at once.
    • Complete hardware information and logs for each screen/player.

  • Templates

    • Tailor-made to meet our clients' visual identity.
    • Content can be easily entered into MyCast.
    • Use on touch screens.
    • Broadcasting of streaming feeds.
    • Retrieve existing data for automated display.
    • Integration with conference room reservation software.
    • Integration with ticketing systems.
    • Access rights according to user profiles.
    • Intranet connection.

  • Display zones

    • Specific zones can be defined for each screen.
    • Easy planning of content in defined zones.
    • Automatic display adaptation in case of empty planning.
    • Assign access rights to users.
    • Template provided for displaying RSS or captured news in a horizontal zone.
    • Template provided for displaying goodies (weather, date, time, etc.) in a vertical zone.

  • Users

    • Advanced rights management for content, playlist and screens.
    • User profile management.
    • SSO connection via Microsoft O365 (Azure AD).
    • Unlimited user accounts.
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    Modules

    With MyCast, Metavision stands out for its ability to respond very specifically to business needs. This means it’s possible to use add-on modules we’ve developed for specific use cases.

    Metavision can also develop customized modules to meet your specific needs. You’ll find below a list of existing modules that can be activated in your MyCast account on request.

  • Room management

    • Automated room reservation display.
    • Customized connection to your room management system.
    • Customized templates to match your corporate identity.
    • Additional logic possible (media display according to business rules).

  • Events and sessions

    • Centralised management of events and sessions.
    • Automated display on screens according to predefined rules.
    • Management of buildings, rooms and screens.
    • Room splitting management.
    • Possibility of distributing special content to your clients for sessions (urls, media).
    • Energy-saving mode to automatically put unused screens to sleep.
    • Display by default and by event when no session is to be displayed on a screen.
    • Touch template for building orientation with session data-dependent display.
    • Customizable room template for front-of-house displays.
    • Summary template for display by building, floor, group, etc.
    • Discover the module

  • Speaker desks

    • Speaker list management.
    • Customizable display template for the desk.
    • Simplified touch interface for live editing of a name or position.
    • Quickly change speakers from the desk by click or touch.

  • Infos-Lieux

    • Management of specific information content, by location.
    • Association of content with users and generation of an editing shortcut after login.
    • Association of content with one or more screens.
    • Global planning of the Info-Lieux template and content automation.
    • Customize content editing fields according to a graphic charter.

    Supported formats

    MyCast allows you to broadcast a range of multimedia content (videos, images, web pages, vectors, data streams, etc.) to your screens.

    Below is a detailed list of the video and image formats supported by our various players.

    Metavision recommends the use of standardized formats that are compatible* with HTML5, however MyCast and its various player platforms offer extensive support for many multimedia formats.

    If you want to convert your videos, click here

    Images

  • Images

    Abbreviation Format Extension
    JPEG* Joint Photographic Expert Group image .jpg, .jpeg
    PNG* Portable Network Graphics .png
    GIF* Graphics Interchange Format .gif
    SVG* Scalable Vector Graphics .svg

    Video

  • Video

    Abbreviation Codec Extension
    MPEG4* H.264 .mp4, .mov, .m4v
    WebM* HVP8 .webm
    MPEG2 MPEG2 .mpeg, .vob
    WMV WMV1, WMV2 .wmv
    MKV H.264 .mkv
    and many more… (See details for Tizen)

    Other

  • Other

    Type More information
    HTML HyperText Markup Language (JS and CSS compatibility according to screen types)
    PowerPoint Via a transformation into images or video
    Raw data XML, JSON, API, via templates
    Anything else? Ask us

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    Architecture

    MyCast is a web platform. A browser is all you need to access it and manage the distribution of your content on your screens.


    MyCast architecture diagram with users, file formats, screens, touch kiosks, screen walls, LED walls, videowalls, Intranet, beamers
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    Screens & Players

    MyCast is compatible with several platforms to meet the constraints of all types of projects.

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    Samsung - Tizen (SSSP)

    Tizen is the name of an open-source operating system developed by Samsung, Linux and Intel, and integrated into all the displays in the professional range designed for Digital Signage.

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    LG - WebOS

    WebOS is the name of the operating system integrated by the LG brand into all the displays in the professional range designed for Digital Signage.

    logo BrightSign

    BrightSign

    BrightSign is the undisputed benchmark in digital signage for the quality, reliability and performance of its players.

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