Content formats supported

The aim of CODA is to make it easy to get your stuff onto your screens. You probably have software that you already use to create content, and we don't want to force you to use anything new until you have to! So CODA can display Powerpoint presentations, PDF documents, Web pages, movies, photos, and RSS feeds, to name just a few. You may decide that you wish to reformat these for use on your CODA screen, but at least you can get started using the tools you already know. Below is a list of the supported content types at the time of writing, and more are being added all the time.

There are two ways to get your content onto a CODA screen:

  • You can link to it on the web, and CODA will fetch it from there when it needs to be displayed
  • You can upload files from your PC to our server
Most content can be accessed in either way, but that's not always the case, so this table tells you when you need to bear this in mind.
Icon Format type Access method
Video files in H.264, MPEG 4*, Ogg, or WMV. Both link and upload.
Bitmapped images in JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP, or TIFF formats Both link and upload
Web pages Link only
Powerpoint presentations in both PPT and PPTX format Upload only
PDF documents Both link and upload
Flash Both link and upload
RSS Feeds Link only
RSS tickertape Link only
Photocast feeds Link only
iCal format calendars (for example, from Google Calendar) Link only

*In MPEG4 we only support the AAC audio codec, not the Dolby AC3 format

When your content is in CODA, the icon will change to reflect whether you have linked or uploaded your content. You can see the difference here:

Image icon for an uploaded file
Image icon for a file linked by its URL