NewTek LiveText - Manual (Page 44)

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4 DATALINK™ AND LIVETIME™
DataLink™ provides users of NewTek’s TriCaster™ and VT[5]™ live video
production systems the ability to display dynamically updated data from
a variety of external sources.
Supported data sources include various third-party sports scoreboard
systems, RSS feeds from the Internet, plus two common file types –
standard ASCII text files and SQL database files. In addition, LiveText‘s
native LiveTime™ allows users to embed realtime clock and date displays
in title pages.
Together, the combined features of DataLink and LiveTime allow you to prepare and display title
pages that containing score, time or various other data types (including images) from both
internal and external sources, and update these in realtime.
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Several different DataLink modules continually monitor data from their respective sources as
follows:
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The TXT Linker draws values from specified ASCII text files.
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The Database Linker provides allows the use of MySQL database functions, and even
supports data accessed across a network.