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LED Strip Studio work on its biggest TV installation yet - Eurovision Song Contest.

LED Strip Studio (LSS) is no stranger to TV installations, previously working on national shows such as X-Factor and Britain’s Got Talent, however, its latest installation was the biggest yet - Eurovision Song Contest. Using over 4,000-metres of its digital LED strips, resulting in over 170,000 individual LED diodes, a large amount for a software system to handle. To accommodate the amount of power required, LSS used 50 of its LEC3

devices, both powered and standalone versions, which was controlled directly from an MA Lighting grandMA console and Art-Net protocol. The LEC3 handled the ‘translation’ from Art-Net to LSS’ SPI protocol. LSS decided to use the BlackMagic Intensity PRO grabber to capture the HDMI stream from the media server to the LED strips. However, Eurovision required a full 60fps stream, which was unfortunately, not possible directly from the current software.

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In order to fulfil Eurovision’s requirements, LSS implemented a new puregrabber mode into the LSS software. In this mode, the software turns off all the unnecessary distractions such as DMX input, video decoding, user input and instead, switches to simple, single window application. This application takes the complete mapping from the LSS workspace and sends all the data to LEC3 devices using simple unicast, Art-Net. This saves a lot of time by not handling TCP communication, user input or other

special windows-application required threads, and is therefore able to draw live stream at a full 60fps speed and 1080p resolution. Overall, the Eurovision installation was a big success for LSS and the company proved that, combined with its LEC3 and LSS software, it can handle large installations.

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