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steph33560
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February 6, 2012
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Picture in Picture ?

  • February 6, 2012
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Hi,

For some people, and some uses, viewing its own image (when the webcam is shared) may be considered as useless.

In one-to-one webconf, is it possible to set the other's webcam in full screen, and just incrust my webcam image in his picture (Picture in Picture) ?

If not, or in another context (multiple webcams shared), is it possible to simply hide its own webcam image ?

Thanks a lot !

Steph

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Jorma_at_Knox
Jorma_at_Knox
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February 6, 2012

This is not possible in the default Camera pod that comes with Connect. That pod shows every active webcam and gives equal realestate to each cam. However you could look at using a custome video pod, such as Talking Stick or the open source external video pod from ConnectSoutions https://github.com/connectsolutions/HDPod. Being a custom application you should be able to set whatever parameters you would like for the images displayed. Keep in mind though, that you will not be able to record the video from an external source.

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steph33560Author
Participant
February 6, 2012

Thanks Jorma for this usefull information !

but ... how to change a pod ??

This seems to me very "experimental" and not for production uses. Do you

agree ?

Thanks !

Le 06/02/2012 18:50, Jorma Jennings a écrit :

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Re: Picture in Picture ?

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Jorma_at_Knox
Jorma_at_Knox
Legend
February 6, 2012

Not experimental. Being a custom application for the meeting, you can do anything that can be built into a Flash application. It all comes down to what you are willing to purchase, or, if you have a developer, what they are willing to build into it. This has been done for years by RealEyes (we have our own custom video Pod), RefinedData and ConnectSolutions. The video(s) are delivered via an external FMS or CDN and often out perform the video built into Connect. This is mosly because the Media Servers are built for video delivery, and Connect is built to have video in it. So the Connect system has to sacrafice quality for the good of the rest of the application. The Media Server doesn't have to sacrafice anything as it's sole job is to deliver the video. However Connect only sees the call to the live video, so that is what will show in the recording, meaning that it will likely see a blank box, or a different live brodcast if it hapens to be using the same stream ID while someone is watching the recording.

It all comes down to what you are looking for and what drawbacks you are willing to accept.

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