Controlling Your Video Stream/Streams

After you select and video stream(s) for display, a Media Player Bar opens along the bottom of the display frame. The Media Player Bar controls all the Video Stream(s) in your window simultaneously.

Figure: Media Player Bar

In the example below, both video streams were paused briefly. Clicking on the Live button caused the Observer to simultaneously retrieve the current live content for both streams.

Figure: Simultaneous Control

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If you use your mouse and “hover” over the control you can see the various search speeds for both directions.

From left to right, the buttons perform the functions below:

• Fast Rewind – 2x: rewinds at twice the normal frame rate, or (click again for 8x)

• Rewind – 1x: rewinds at normal frame rate

• Slow Rewind – ½x: rewinds at one-half the normal frame rate, Step Backward: steps backward by a single frame

• Pause

• Step Forward: steps forward by a single frame

• Slow Forward – ½x: moves forward at one-half the normal frame rate,

• Play: moves forward at the normal frame rate

• Fast Forward MAX: moves forward at 2x the normal frame rate, (click again for 8x)

• Live: synchs up all the Video Streams in the Player Window with the most recent content. There are two visual ways to ensure you are viewing the most recent content: by border color identification and by Time Identification.

You can also place the mouse cursor inside the video stream window and use the mouse wheel to move frame by frame.

Note: The power of the Volicon Observer platform is in its ability to support many sessions or users simultaniously without affecting other users. For example, what you do in the Player Window only affects your Player Window. It has no effect on other users. Observer is the only program of its kind on the market that provides you in this way with the complete freedom to perform your job functions when and as you need to perform them.