Media

Media

The Media workspace plays the intro, prayer time and outro for the live stream, and can show the same on the wall.

What you can add

• Videos from this computer: mp4, mov and webm.
• Web pages: an HTML file from this computer, or a pasted link. A YouTube link is turned into an embedded player.

Files stay where they are on the disk; the app remembers where. Each item has a group (Intro, Prayer, Outro, Background or Other) and the items show as one grid with a thumbnail. A video shows a frame; a web page shows a small live copy of itself.

Import ACI media

Import ACI media adds the Anchor Church stream pages (intro, prayer time, outro and background) as links. Use it if your church uses those pages; otherwise ignore it.

Playing

Each item has three buttons:

Button	What it does
Play on stream	Plays it over the live stream
Wall	Shows it on the Wall/LED screen
Both	Does both

The top of the workspace shows what is playing on the stream and on the wall, with a Stop button for each.

Where it plays

Media plays on:

• the Stream feed window of the app,
• the Media link (its own OBS Browser Source), and
• a Display link that has &media=1 added to its address.

The normal Display link (verses and lyrics) does not play media, so nothing doubles up. See OBS Setup.

While media is playing, the Program and Preview monitors show it too (silently). When a verse or lyric goes live, or you press ⇧Esc, the media stops.

Sound

• Sound on the stream lets the media play its sound to viewers.
• Sound in this app is off by default: this computer stays silent and the sound comes from OBS. Turn it on if you want to hear it here.
• In OBS, tick Control audio via OBS on the Media link source.
• Loop videos on the stream plays a video again when it ends.
• Video fit: fill the screen (crop edges) or fit inside (black bars).

These options are also in Settings, Media and wall.

Keys

M stops the media on the stream.