Your screen came with a small box — a controller (sometimes called a sending box or video processor). To a computer that box is just a second monitor: connect it with an HDMI or DVI cable, and the screen shows whatever the computer sends there. The missing piece is software that fills that "monitor" with your video and keeps it playing — that is what a media server is. Download the free VIIY demo, drop your video in, pick the screen as the output, press GO. That's the whole path.

Any video player can put a picture on a second display — until someone drags a window over it, a notification pops up, or the PC restarts and the screen shows the desktop to the whole street. Playback software exists to make the screen unattended: the video runs fullscreen on the right display, loops, starts by itself after a power cut, and your mouse and windows never appear on it. VIIY does this out of the box; the demo is free and has no time limit.

Yes — that is the simplest VIIY show: one cue, loop on, done. After a restart or a power cut it comes back and keeps playing by itself. When you want more later — a schedule, several clips, a second screen — it grows without starting over.

An ordinary Windows 11 PC with a reasonably modern graphics card is enough. What matters is not how physically big the screen is but how many pixels it has — a huge facade screen is often fewer pixels than a laptop display. Convert your video to the HAP codec (VIIY does it in one click) and even a modest PC plays it smoothly.

Because to Windows it is simply a monitor, and Windows extends your desktop onto it. You need software that takes over that display and outputs only your content. In VIIY you add the screen as an output: your desktop stays on your own monitor, and the LED shows the show — nothing else, ever.

Yes. Feed LTC into an audio input or MTC over MIDI, give each cue a timecode mark, and the show follows the clock frame-accurately — fire the desk, and video, cues and transitions land on time. Manual transport locks out while chasing, so nobody double-fires a cue during the show.

Yes, with render nodes: one SYNC copies the show to every machine, and each node decodes and drives only its slice of the canvas. The master keeps transport; nodes follow. For seams that cross machines, pair it with genlock (DeckLink REF or Quadro Sync).

Yes, and it is included in one license. The backup machine mirrors the master live; if the master drops mid-show, the backup lights its outputs and continues. A BACKUP indicator on the master answers the real question — not "is the spare online" but "is it holding the same show, file by file".

Yes — Art-Net and sACN (DMX), MIDI (notes, CCs and MTC), OSC, and LTC timecode. Map GO, cue fires, opacity and more to your desk; VIIY can sit in the rig as a player that lighting drives.

You don't have to switch at all to try it: run VIIY next to your current server — import the same media, chase the same timecode, map the same screens — and keep your rig as the fallback while you compare. Nothing about evaluating VIIY bets a show on it.