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/streams 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 RPM platform is in its ability to support many sessions or users simultaneously 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.

Volume Controls

Observer provides you with volume controls in the lower right hand corner of your home page. These are the master volume controls, and control the volume to your speakers of whatever stream you are listening to on your home page. Note that If you have multiple video streams open, you will only receive audio from one of the streams. Simply left clicking inside any open video stream will allow you to hear audio for that stream. Also, the bottom border will turn blue while the other open streams will be black (a visual way of identifying where video is coming from).

Figure: Volume Controls

You have two volume controls:

• Mute mutes and unmutes the audio for your currently selected stream

• Volume: adjusts the volume of your audio as you move the slider bar left and right. All the way to the right gives you full volume.

Mark to cut clips

While examining media, the <Mark Start/Mark End> button allows you to clip sections of interest. Navigate to the desired start time and click the <Mark Start>; the button’s graphic will change automatically to <Mark End>. Then navigate to the desired end-point and click the button again. A dialog box will appear allowing one to specify additional information, e.g., Name, Description… Press the <OK> to record the new clip in the Bookmarks area. See the “Export Clips” section for additional details.

Controlling Display Modes

Observer allows you to specify the display mode of your Player Window with the Display Mode buttons at the lower left of your window.

Figure: Display Mode Buttons

Fromm left to right, these buttons are:

• Full Screen, which displays a single video stream across the full screen of your monitor (outside of the IE window in which Observer is running).

  

  Figure: Full Screen Display Mode

  To exit from Full Screen mode, press the Escape key.

• Split Screen, which displays all of your active streams across your full monitor.

  

  Figure: Split Screen Display Mode

  To exit from Split Screen mode, press the Escape key.

• Picture in Picture, which displays the stream with active audio as the main feed, and places all other active feeds inside that picture on the right hand side.

  

  Figure: Picture in Picture Display Mode

  To exit from Picture in Picture mode, press the Escape key.