Raspberry Digital Signage 10.0 improves HTML5 video playback

Nov 18, 2017 07:30 GMT  ·  By

Binary Emotions, the developers of the Debian-based Raspberry Digital Signage open-source operating system for Raspberry Pi SBCs, inform us today on the availability for download of Raspberry Digital Signage 10.

Raspberry Digital Signage 10.0 is the latest release of the operating system designed for deployment on digital signage infrastructures, backed by the tiny Raspberry Pi computer. It comes six months after the release of version 9.0 with a complete rebase on the latest Debian GNU/Linux 9 "Stretch" operating system series.

Marco Buratto announces the release of Raspberry Digital Signage 10.0 today, saying that it's utilizing the latest and greatest Chromium 62 open-source web browser, which features improved HTML5 video playback capabilities, better Adobe Flash support, as well as overall H264/AVC video playback performance improvements.

"The underlying operating system has been moved to Raspbian Stretch; the overall performance is sensibly better and HTML5 videos play a lot smoother," reads the announcement, which notes that the new release also includes various under-the-hood performance improvements and bug fixes.

Display more attractive resources, more easily

The Raspberry Digital Signage 10.0 release uses the Debian Stretch base and latest Chromium build to allow you to display more attractive resources, more easily, on your digital signage environment. Best of all, the new version addresses some Wi-Fi network discoverability issues.

It also fixes local various Wordpress virtual host issues, which remains disabled if it's not unused, and improves the overall performance of the operating system, which should not be more easily deployable on your Raspberry Pi single-board computers for digital signage screens.

Raspberry Digital Signage 10.0 is a simple OS designed to display only a web browser (Chromium) in full-screen mode and restricted view, linked to a specified web resource. Both internal and remote sources can be displayed and there's no way to avoid this view unless the Raspberry Pi is rebooted.

You can download Raspberry Digital Signage 10.0 right now from our website, where it's distributed as a zip archive containing an image that you can write to an SD card for booting and install on a Raspberry Pi. The OS is known to also support the official 7-inch Raspberry Pi touchscreen.