Chapter 1

ViaVideo Quick Start

Starting ViaVideo

The ViaVideo application and camera unit work together to provide an unparalleled experience in conference room quality video communications on your desktop. The ViaVideo camera unit combines a camera and high-performance multi-media processor, which performs all audio encoding and decoding, and video encoding. This leaves the PC free to perform normal tasks while ViaVideo is running, even if you are in a call.

Turn on the Camera

To start ViaVideo:

1.Turn the camera unit on using the slider switch in the front of the unit.

If your camera is installed correctly, the status indicator light blinks green, indicating that the camera unit is ready to receive the software upload.

The switch on the front of the ViaVideo camera unit has three positions:

On:Turns the camera unit on.

Video Mute: Blocks the camera unit lens. This does not mute the camera unit’s audio. For more

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ViaVideo User’s Guide

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