Polycom RealPresence 1800 Administration Manual page 347

Guidelines for Removing Static Room Video from Conference Layout per Endpoint Type
AVC Endpoints
Auto Layout is defined by the number of active video
participants + maximum of 2 static video participants.
Free cells are populated by static video participants.
Once an endpoint is detected as a static video endpoint,
it is removed from the layout upon the next layout
change, either participant join/leave, or change in active
speaker.
The same applies to static video room becoming active
video room.
So long as the static video room is either the active or
last speaker, it remains in the conference layout.
Interactions with Other Features
● Video participants count is unaffected by the exclusion of inactive-video participants from the
conference layout. Therefore, so long as there are less than a hundred video participants, their
presence is exposed by the count.
● Static video Telepresence rooms are not removed from the conference layout, provided the
Telepresence Layout Mode is defined as Speaker Priority.
● Recording link layout is not affected by this feature, however static video rooms have the lowest
priority in the recording link layout population.
● This feature is fully compatible with the Discussion Mode Layout feature (see separate addendum).
● This feature is fully compatible with panoramic view:
 If panoramic view is comprised of a multitude of endpoints - The same as with Auto Layout.
 If panoramic view is comprised of a Telepresence room - The entire room is displayed, regardless
of any static video components in the Telepresence room.
● A participant forced in the layout is always displayed, even if its video is inactive.
Enable and Disable this Polycom Lab Feature
To enable/disable excluding inactive-video participants from layout:
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.
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SVC Endpoints
The layout used by the endpoint is determined by the
endpoint.
This feature is active for SVC endpoints in mixed
conferences:
• In soft MCU - At beginning of conference
• In HW MCU - Once the first AVC endpoint connects.
SVC endpoints request numerous video streams, which
populate the layout cells according to the MCU internal
considerations, where static video rooms are prioritized
lower than active video rooms, unless they represent
the current or last active speakers.
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