Understanding How Participants Display In Layout Views - Cisco TelePresence Server 7010 Product User Manual

Understanding how participants display in layout views

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Conference layouts
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Layouts sent to single-screen systems
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Layouts sent to two-screen systems
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Layouts sent to three-screen systems
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Layout sent to four-screen systems
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OneTable mode
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Configuration options that affect view layouts
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Self view setting
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Show full screen in conference setting
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Minimum screen layout setting
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Show continuous presence panes setting
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Allow content in main video
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Show borders around endpoints setting
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Marking a participant as "important"
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Muted participants
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Conference layouts
The layout chosen by the TelePresence Server for a system depends on the number of screens that the
system has and the characteristics of the other conference participants. The TelePresence Server is
capable of working with one-, two-, three- and four-screen regular and immersive endpoints, and
displaying any combination of those systems participating in a conference to any other type of system in
the conference.
In general, the behavior of the TelePresence Server is to display the "loudest" participants in the most
prominent layout panes. If there are more contributors than there are panes available, then the "quietest"
participants are not shown.
Layouts sent to single-screen systems
A single-screen TelePresence endpoint always receives the panel switched view when possible, but a
participant can change the layout using Far End Camera Control.
In panel switched view, the loudest participant appears full screen with additional participants appearing
in up to nine equally sized overlaid panes at the bottom of the screen.
The panel switched view is possible when the other participants in the conference are all single-screen
endpoints, or a mixture of single-screen endpoints and multiple-screen systems that reveal which
camera has the loudest audio input (the Cisco TelePresence System T3 for example).
If the panel switched view is not possible, the TelePresence Server composes the layout for single-
screen endpoints according to the following rules:
Layouts sent to single screen endpoints if panel switched view is not possible
If there are any four-screen TelePresence systems in a conference, the TelePresence Server
sends this layout to single-screen systems in that conference.
Each row of four panes can either show the four screens of a remote four-screen system or a
combination of remote systems with fewer screens.
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