HAMvid Features
Adding dynamic weather content to your web site or public display system can be as simple as using our standard feeds, or as robust as customizing many of the various options to designing custom slides and styles that amplify your company’s brand.
What is HAMvid?
HAMvid is an exciting new weather content delivery system that can display real-time weather information in a quick, concise and user-friendly format.
How HAMvid works
At the most basic level, HAMvid is an external Flash application hosted on our servers that you simply add to your web page using a single line of JavaScript code. The weather data, maps, animations and audio are hosted on our servers so you never have to worry about performing lengthy installs or meeting a long list of requirements on your own server. No programming experience is required!
Customization
HAMvid was designed to be fully customizable and expandable, which makes it one of the most innovative weather content delivery solutions available. Change how it looks, how it acts, what it displays and more depending on your needs. Almost every component in HAMvid can be customized for total creative flexibility. We can also work with you to develop highly customized solutions, such as custom slides, graphics, weather content and audio. If our standard display ratio of 4:3 (dimensions of 640x480, 480x360 or 320x240) will not suffice for your custom implementation, HAMvid can also be customized to work with other sizes and aspect ratios.
Usage
HAMvid can be used on any web page by the inclusion of a small snippet of JavaScript code. It can also be used on public display systems in supermarkets, banks, post offices, private businesses and more. No matter how you use HAMvid, you will not have to worry about the content becoming outdated no matter how long you let your feeds play as it was developed to continuously update the weather data and maps in the background.
Requirements
That’s simple! You only need a web browser with Flash Player 8 or higher to view HAMvid content.
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Features
Complete content management
You choose what types of weather content to display and the order in which to display it. Simply use one of our standard HAMvid feeds or build your own from our growing slide library.
Multiple geographic scales
Our weather content can be offered at many different scales, from your local metro area, to your state, region and/or country. We also offer international and specialty data and maps to match your specific market and user base.
Total playback control
Automatically start playing, randomize your slides, loop your feed, play background audio and narration, or select which audio to use from our audio library. With HAMvid you can control every aspect of how your feeds are played.
Add audio and background music
Add background music and/or text narration to accompany your feeds graphics. Select from our library of music and pre-recorded audio or use our TTS (text-to-speech) engine to narrate more dynamic weather content.
Custom branding and identity
Configure your HAMvid feeds to match your site’s existing style and colors by using many of our customizable options. Need even more customization? Contact us and we will work with you directly to develop and implement your solutions.
Smart loading
No need to worry about long download times. HAMvid reduces the amount of bandwidth and resource usage over other streaming media while offering a greater potential for expandability and control. After the initial preloading during feed playback, weather content will continue to download in the background for slides that appear later in your feed to diminish the initial download times.
Linked content
Each slide in your feed can be linked to a URL of your choice, such as your own web page. When a user clicks on a slide, they can be taken to the respective URL.
Continuous updates
Whether you play your feeds just once or let them play all day, you will receive the latest weather content related to your specific feed. HAMvid is developed to continuously update the content in the background during playback.
Scalable
HAMvid standard dimensions follow a 4:3 ratio, where our standard sizes are 640x480, 480x360 and 320x240. However, larger dimensions are also supported, such as 800x600, for usage on larger public displays. If the 4:3 size ratio does not meet your needs, HAMvid is scalable enough that we can work with you to execute your custom solutions.
Expandable
Our standard library of slides and weather content are only the beginning. HAMvid can use your own custom slides, images and streaming video content in conjunction with our standard slides. Need custom weather content and/or slides that are not a part of our library? No problem. Contact us and we will work with you directly in order to realize your goals.
Multilingual
HAMvid can support multiple languages in both the main interface and the various content slides available. We currently only support Spanish but are quickly expanding our library to support additional languages as well.
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