Install and first run
Open the disk image, drag it across, and know what the two windows are.
Documentation · 13 pages · three sections
Run the room tonight.
Three short pages take you from the disk image to a film on the wall, taken when you say and at no other time. Everything else is here for the day the room has to run itself.
Today Sialk Player plays films and stills as playlists you take to one projector; opening hours, a slate, subtitles and a phone remote run the space when nobody is at the laptop. What it plays is the list, and a file it cannot play says so on its row.
Start here · three pagesAbout five minutes · nothing to set up
Start here
From the disk image to a film on the wall. About five minutes, and nothing to set up.
Your first wall
Add a film, preview it, take it to the wall. Take is the only thing that changes the room.
The keys
Everything on the control window has a key, so a show never needs the trackpad.
5 pages
Running a room
The controls that run a space when nobody is at the laptop.
- The slateWhat the projector shows when there is nothing on it.
- Loop one, loop all, onceHow the playlist runs when nobody is pressing Take.
- Opening hoursThe room opens and closes itself, and comes back after a power cut.
- The phone remoteThe playlist, blackout and volume on a phone, behind a PIN.
- The projectorWhich display is the wall, and what happens when it changes mid-show.
5 pages
Files
What goes on the wall, and what to do with a file that will not.
- SubtitlesChosen per file, from a file beside the video, one you pick, or a track inside it.
- Prepare for the wallOne press turns a file the wall cannot play into one it can.
- Playlists are filesA playlist is a document you open, save, copy to a stick and open on another Mac.
- The logWhat was on the wall and when, and what went wrong, in words.
- The licenceFree within three files in a playlist; a key lifts the cap, checked on this Mac.
If it is not here
Write to hello@sialk.net. A question that arrives twice becomes a page; the documentation is short on purpose.