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Using a custom boot script and logo You can change the startup logo or add a boot script. Both the logo and boot script are stored in the internal FLASH and have a size limit of 200KB. Using your own boot logo 1 Save your logo in one of the following file formats: BMP, 8 bit indexed, or RLE encoded. 2 Copy your logo to a CF card. 3 Connect your BrightSign to a PC using a null modem cable (see Accessing the BrightSign shell for details). 4 Run a terminal emulation program such as HyperTerminal (see Accessing the BrightSign shell for details). 5 Insert the CF card into your BrightSign and apply power. 6 When the terminal prompt appears, type the following (where LOGO.BMP is the name of your logo file): writebootfile logo.bmp boot.bmp 7 Reboot BrightSign, and your logo should appear. Widescreen vs. 4x3 discussion You can use BrightSign with widescreen or 4x3 displays. However, you may find that using different display aspect ratios with the various BrightScreen options is confusing. In this section we try to clarify what you can expect. Displaying videos BrightSign treats video and images a little differently. When a video is playing back, it is displayed by default in what is known in BrightSignese as ViewMode 0. In other words, BrightSign scales the video to fill the current output resolution (as set by the videomode command), whatever its 100 • •

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Using a custom boot script and logo
You can change the startup logo or add a boot script. Both the logo and boot script are stored in
the internal FLASH and have a size limit of 200KB.
Using your own boot logo
1
Save your logo in one of the following file formats: BMP, 8 bit indexed, or RLE encoded.
2
Copy your logo to a CF card.
3
Connect your BrightSign to a PC using a null modem cable (see
Accessing the BrightSign
shell
for details).
4
Run a terminal emulation program such as HyperTerminal (see
Accessing the BrightSign
shell
for details).
5
Insert the CF card into your BrightSign and apply power.
6
When the terminal prompt appears, type the following (where LOGO.BMP is the name of
your logo file):
writebootfile logo.bmp boot.bmp
7
Reboot BrightSign, and your logo should appear.
Widescreen vs. 4x3 discussion
You can use BrightSign with widescreen or 4x3 displays. However, you may find that using
different display aspect ratios with the various BrightScreen options is confusing. In this section
we try to clarify what you can expect.
Displaying videos
BrightSign treats video and images a little differently. When a video is playing back, it is displayed
by default in what is known in BrightSignese as
ViewMode 0
. In other words, BrightSign scales the
video to fill the current output resolution (as set by the videomode command), whatever its