Polycom 1500/1800/2000/4000 manual Defining AVC-Based Conference Profiles

Defining AVC-Based Conference Profiles

13Optional. To video force a participant in a window, select the participant’s name from the drop-down list of conference participants.

When a participant is forced to a layout window, switching between participants is suspended for that window and only the assigned participant is viewed. Video Forcing works on Conference Level or Participant Level:

Conference Level – When forcing a participant to a window, all conference participants will see that participant in the selected window.

Participant Level – When forcing a participant to a window, only the participant’s video layout display is affected. All other participants see the conference layout.

Video Forcing Guidelines:

A participant cannot appear in two or more windows at the same time.

Participant level video forcing overrides conference level video forcing.

In Same Layout mode, participant can view him/herself in a layout window.

When different size video windows are used in video layouts such as 1+2, 1+3, 1+4, etc., a participant can only be forced, in Personal Layout, to a video window of the same size as that selected for him/her in Conference Layout.

When changing the Video Layout at the conference level, the video forcing settings are not applied to a new layout, and switching between participants is audio-activated. The video forcing setting is saved and applied the next time that layout is selected.

Windows that are not assigned any participant display the current speaker and last speakers, but appear at random.

Video Forcing doesn’t change the conference profile.

Video Forcing can be implemented through Media Sources Tab when adding a new Conference or a new Meeting Room.

For information about preventing the MCU from reassigning cells in a forced layout that were assigned to endpoints that have disconnected through a system flag named PRESERVE_PARTY_CELL_ON_FORCE_LAYOUT, see System Configuration Flags.

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