Polycom RealPresence 1800 Administration Manual page 346

Enable and Disable this Polycom Lab Feature
To enable/disable Discussion Mode:
1 Right-click on a CP Only or Mixed CP and AVC conferencing profile, and select Profile Properties.
or
Right-click on a CP Only or Mixed CP and AVC conference, and select Conference Properties.
2 Select the Video Settings tab.
Exclude Inactive-Video Participants from Layout
Polycom Lab features are new technology innovations that may not have undergone all levels of formal
testing. We encourage you to try them out, but because they are not fully tested or supported, please don't
deploy them in production environments.
Polycom Lab features are experimental and may or may not become official features in a future release.
This brief specification documents the following Polycom Lab Feature.
Feature Name:
Release Feature is Being Tested In:
Level of Testing Performed To Date:
To find out more about this Polycom Lab feature or provide feedback on this feature, contact Polycom
Support.
Description of Feature
In many conferences some cells displaying static video can be observed. This may occur either due to the
endpoint camera not focusing on people, or when video is disabled.
To enhance user experience, provided this feature is activated, the Collaboration Server preserves mainly
significant video in the conference layout, by excluding inactive-video rooms from the conference layout, in
both AVC and SVC endpoints.
Presence of static video participants currently connected to the conference, is indicated by the
The table below lists the guideline for static video rooms' exclusion from the conference layout.
Polycom, Inc.
Exclude Inactive-Video Participants from Layout
Polycom® RealPresence® Collaboration Server, V8.7.1
 None
 Feature Unit Tested
 Feature Unit and Product Regression Tested
 Full Feature Unit, Product Regression, and Solution Tested
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