The Lightwing SDK version 1.2 for Windows has been released and it includes some major new features including support for building multi-panel video walls! This is the second update since the launch of the Lightwing project a few years ago. The addition of multi-panel support allows Lightwing’s revolutionary fast approach to digital multimedia content creation to be applied to much bigger projects. And since Lightwing runs on low-cost open hardware from multiple vendors, it will drastically reduce the costs of building such large installations as well.
Lightwing features a distributed processing design where each panel in an array of panels has a dedicated Lightwing player attached via HDMI. The players communicate with each other over a local network via UDP multicast for timing synchronization. This allows for multi-panel displays of virtually unlimited size without burdening the local network with video data. Once all the players in an array are configured properly, multimedia content files can simply be copied to all the players and Lightwing divides the content into panel sections automatically.
For more information, see the Lightwing Video Wall Introduction.
The complete list of new features in this release includes:
- Support for building multi-panel video walls
- Support for playing audio via “wav” files
- New Write command for saving user input via data channels to the local file system
- Automatic rotation of background images for portrait displays
- 3D objects now default to orthographic projections
- Automatic default sizing of boxes from associated images, text and tickers
To learn more, see the Lightwing Introduction and download the free Lightwing SDK for Windows to get started!