Configuration 4.4.2.

4.4.2 Network Timeouts

Whenever browsing file servers or disc recorders with the ‘Open Sequence‘ dialog in ALICE, or the ‘Browse” dialog in the ALGUI, waiting for inactive servers can be annoying. Therefore timeouts can be adjusted in the network tab photo of the preferences panel of

ALICE.

When accessing a DVS disc recorder, the check if the recorder is reachable is done by sending a ping request to its host. A value of 0 disables checking, connections to unreachable disc recorders will then timeout by the DVS defaults.

The timeout is ignored whenever loading images from the disc recorder, both by ALICE and CLIF. Therefore, it does not affect recording.

4.4.3 Partition Change Policy

On DVS disc recorders, frames of different sizes are stored in different partitions. Only one partition can be active at a time, and only frames on active partitions can be accessed.

Since changing the active partition will prevent all other applications and real time operations to be stopped, the ARRILASER software can be allowed or forbidden to automatically switch to the partition it needs.

If the environment variable AL_DR_PARTITION_CHANGE is set to 1, both CLIF and ALICE will switch partitions without notice. If unset or set to 0, CLIF will never change partitions, while ALICE will ask the user. The environment variable can be set in

c:\cshell\login.csh‘.

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