Managing The Recording Process; Recording Layout - Polycom RealPresence 1500 Administrator's Manual

Managing the Recording Process

When a conference is started and recording is enabled in its Profile, the system will automatically start the
recording if the Start Recording parameter is set to immediately. If it is set to Upon Request, the system waits
for the chairperson or Collaboration Server user's request. Once the recording is initiated for a conference,
the MCU connects to the recording device (Capture Server). The connection that is created between the
conference and the recording device is represented as a special participant (Recording) whose name is the
Recording Link. Once the recording has started, the recording process can be stopped and restarted from
the Chairperson's endpoint (using DTMF codes) or from the Collaboration Server Web Client. After the
recording process has finished, the recording can be identified in the Capture Server by its Collaboration
Server conference name.
A conference participant and the Recording Link cannot have identical names, otherwise the
recording process will fail.

Recording Layout

When the video layout of the conference is set to Auto Layout, the recording of the conference will now
include all the conference participants and not n-1 participants as in previous versions.
In the new Auto Layout algorithm, the Recording Link is counted as a participant, and therefore it is excluded
from the layout display used for the recording. The layout used for the other participants will behave as in
the standard Auto Layout behavior.
The Recording Layout can be changed during an ongoing conference in the same manner as for any other
conference participant. For more information see the
The default settings for Auto Layout for the conference and the Recording Link are summarized in the
following table:
Recording Link Default Layout Settings (Auto Layout Mode)
Conference Auto Layout Default
Participants Settings
0 Not applicable
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Recording Link Auto Layout
Settings
Not applicable
Recording Conferences
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