Haivision Media Platform

Using the Live Review Player

As shown in (3.9) Accessing the Live Review Player, the Live Review player contains multiple sections:

  • Recording controls

  • Session Live button

  • Videos/Hotmarks list

  • Live Review toolbar

They are each described in the following sections.

Recording Controls

Use the recording controls to start, pause, resume, and stop recording of the session. The available buttons shown depend on the current recording status.

Not recording

While a session is not recording, only the record button is shown. Click the  record.png icon to start recording.

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Recording

While a session is recording, three icons appear: a red recording status icon, a pause button, and a stop button:

  • The  red.png icon pulses to indicate that the session is currently recording.

  • Click the  pause.png icon to pause the session recording.

  • Click the  stop.png icon to stop the recording. A confirmation button appears, which must be clicked to stop the recording.

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If the session contains multiple sources, the recording status also appears on the source strip, indicating that all four sources are recording:

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Paused

When a recording is paused, three icons appear: an orange recording status icon, a resume recording button, and a stop button:

  • The  orange.png icon pulses to indicate that the session recording is currently paused.

  • Click the  play.png icon to resume recording.

  • Click the  stop.png icon to stop the recording. A confirmation button appears, which must be clicked to stop the recording.

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Session Live Button

The session live button allows you to toggle whether the current session is hidden from non-owners.

  • To hide the session, toggle the Live button to Off.

  • To show the session that has been hidden, toggle the Live button to On.

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Note

A session that is not "Live" is only visible to the owners of that content. This allows you to restrict viewing capabilities to one or many viewers in real time to protect sensitive content. For example, if you have allowed viewers access to a session or active recordings on a session but then toggle Live to Off, a still image immediately replaces the stream. Then if you toggle Live to On again, the stream immediately restarts.

Videos/Hotmarks List

A dropdown list is available to show any videos recorded from the session or any hotmarks from the currently recording video.

Videos List

When viewing the videos list, hovering over each video shows an Edit button. Clicking the Edit button opens the Information pane for the selected video.

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Depending on your account role and permissions, from the video information pane you can:

Hotmarks List

When viewing the hotmarks list, hovering over each hotmark shows an Edit button. Clicking the Edit button opens the Hotmark Information dialog, which allows you to update the title, time, and description of the hotmark. See (3.9) Managing HotMarks for more information.

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Live Review Toolbar

The Live Review Toolbar changes depending on the status of the session.

Not Recording

When a session is not being recorded, the live review toolbar allows you to:

  • Adjust the playback volume by hovering over the  volume.png icon. Clicking the  volume.png icon mutes/unmutes playback.

  • Download a snapshot image of the current position in the video by clicking the  snapshot2.png icon. For multi-source sessions, an image is downloaded for each source being viewed in the player.

  • Resize the viewer and hide the sidebar by clicking the  Resize icon. This toggles the window between full-size (no sidebar) and compact size (with sidebar).

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Recording - Live

While a session is recording and you are at the current playback position of the session, the toolbar appears as shown below. The icons labeled are those that are different than shown in the previous figure when the toolbar is not recording mode.

  • Click the  pause.png button to pause playblack of the session. The toolbar changes to show the other features as shown in the Recording - Not Live tab.

  • Click the  gotostart.png button to move the player position to the start of the recording. The toolbar changes to show the other features as shown in the Recording - Not Live tab.

  • Click the  skipback10.png button to move the player position back 10 seconds. The toolbar changes to show the other features as shown in the Recording - Not Live tab.

  • The  red.png LIVE status indicates the player position is at the current position of the session source.

  • The recording length shows the current running length of the recording.

  • Clicking within the seekbar moves the player position to where you clicked. The toolbar changes to show the other features as shown in the Recording - Not Live tab. If any hotmarks are present, they are shown at their locations within the seekbar.

  • Click the  hotmark.png button to insert a hotmark at the current player position. The Hotmark Information dialog opens to name the hotmark and add a description. Any added hotmarks are shown in the seekbar and the hotmarks list in the sidebar.

Live Review Toolbar Recording.drawio.png

Note

The scrubbing functions are not available for HEVC sources.

Recording - Not Live

While a session is recording and the player is not at the current position of the session source, the toolbar appears as shown below. The icons labeled and described below are those that are different than shown in the previous figure when the toolbar is not in the live recording mode.

  • Click the 1x button to select the desired playback speed: 1/4x, 1/2x, 1x, 2x, 4x, or 8x. When using the 2x, 4x, or 8x speeds, if the player position reaches the current position of the session source, the playback speed reverts to 1x.

Note

8x playback may cause buffering issues within the player.

  • Click the  skipforward10.png button to move the player position forward 10 seconds.

  • Click the  gray.png LIVE button to return the player position to the current position of the session source. The toolbar changes to that shown in the Recording - Live tab.

  • The current player position shows the running timestamp next to the recording length.

  • Click the  scissors.png button to open the trim controls. See (3.9) Trimming Live Review Recordings for how to use the trim controls.

Live Review Toolbar.drawio.png

Note

The scrubbing functions are not available for HEVC sources.

Tip

Keyboard shortcuts are also available for using most toolbar functions. To see the list of available shortcuts click  hamburger.png > Keyboard Shortcuts.