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Chapter5 Using Cisco MeetingPlace Video Conferencing
Video Features and Functions in the Meeting Room During the Conference
•View only the active speaker (or the room the speaker is in) or view multiple participants (or the
rooms they are in).
The participant list indicates when a video participant joins or leaves, mutes or unmutes, or pauses or
resumes their video transmission.
About Modifying the Video Transmission of Other Participants
Any profiled user can do the following to any video participant by clicking the name or Guest ID of that
person in the participant list:
•Pause or play (resume) the video transmission of that participant.
•Disconnect another video participant from the video conferenc e. This action does not remove the
participant from the voice or web conference.
•Eject a participant from all media used in the meeting (video, voice, and web conferencing.)
About Recording a Video-Conferencing Session
When video-conferencing participants ar e present in a Cisco MeetingPlace meeting that i s recorded, the
audio channel of their video transmission is r ecorded. The visual image of a video transmission is not
recorded.
About Entering a Breakout Session
Breakout sessions are only available to audio participants. Video endpoints ca nnot enter a breakout
session. If a video user attempts to enter a breakout session , the audio channel of the video transmission
of that participant, and the focus of the web conference, remain in the main meeting room.
In order to participate in a breakout session, vide o participants must also join the Cisco MeetingPlace
conference via an audio device (such as a telephone or speaker phone) and must manually mute the audio
channel of their video endpoint from the video endpoint (not by using the meeting room interface, which
mutes all audio channels) before exiting the main meeting room.
About Participating in Lecture Style Meetings
Lecture style meetings have one or more presenters, and all other participants are the audience. The
audience can be granted speaking privileges. For general inform ation about lecture-style meetings, see
the Administrator’s Guide for Cisco MeetingPlace Audio Server Release 5.3.
In a lecture-style meeting, standard rules apply to video attendees, except that:
•If the floor is closed, all video participants are muted (including the presenter) but can see each
other. The presenters must join the audio conference with a standard audio device in order to speak.
Any participant can speak via a standard audio connection, subject to the rules that govern
lecture-style meetings in audio conferences.
•If the floor is open, all video participants can speak and see each other.
•It is not possible for the speaker to mute or unmute the endpoints of individual video participants.
However, participants in an open-floor meeting can mute and unmute themselves.