Polycom 1500/1800/2000/4000 Speaker Priority in CP Video Layouts, Reserved Screens, Grid Screens

Setting Conferences for Telepresence Mode (AVC CP)

●Personal layouts are disabled. Therefore, any features that use personal layouts like Click&View can not be used to change the layout, and Click&View DTMF digits will be ignored.

●Changing the flag affects only future conferences. Conferences currently running are not affected.

●The Send Content To Legacy Endpoints feature is enabled by default when Telepresence mode is enabled.

●Layout attributes (no skins, no site names and no borders) should continue for Telepresence layouts managed by the RMX.

Speaker Priority in CP Video Layouts

The purpose of Speaker Priority Mode is to provide high visibility to the speaker's room and to ensure that the active speaker in the conference is always displayed in the video layout, and displayed in the best way possible. If there is space in the layout while the active speaker is displayed, previous speakers are also displayed.

Reserved Screens

When Speaker Priority mode is selected each Room System reserves screens to provide high visibility according to maximum number of room-screens in the conference, displaying the active speaker in the largest video layout cell available.

The Speaker Priority option is selected in the Video Settings tab of the Profile dialog. For more information see Selecting Speaker Priority

The number of reserved screens depends on the maximum number of room-cameras connected to the conference. Typically, two room-cameras are displayed one screen, three room-cameras on three screens, and four room-cameras on two screens.

Reserved screens include an Overlay Layout (Filmstrip) that may be populated with other conference participants after the Grid Screen(s) have been fully populated with additional conference participants. See Video Layout Examples.

Grid Screens

Grid screens are symmetric video layouts (2x2, 3x3, 4x4) that are populated with other conference participants after the Reserved Screens are populated with the current and previous speakers. Grid screens are only available when the room system has more screens than the number of reserved screens—grid screens typically exist within 2 or 4 screen systems. See Video Layout Examples.

Video Layout Examples

●A three-screen Room System will reserve three screens if another three-camera Room System participates in the conference. If the active speaker is using a single camera endpoint, the active speaker is displayed on a full screen while the two previous speakers are displayed on the other two screens.

●Irrespective of whether the receiving Room System has more screens than the active speaker’s Room System:

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