3.16 Streaming Viewer
3.16.1 Creation:
A Streaming Viewer cannot be included in a Monitor.
To add a Streaming Viewer to a Layout:
- Select the Streaming Viewer tool in the KEdit toolbar.
- Click at the appropriate place in the Layout, and drag to place a Streaming Viewer of the desired size.
3.16.2 Configuration:
The attributes of a Streaming Viewer are adjustable using its Configuration Panel in KEdit. To access the panel for a Streaming Viewer:
- Click on the Streaming Viewer. Control points will appear at the corners and the center of the long side, showing it is selected.
NOTE: at this point the Streaming Viewer may be positioned (click on the Streaming Viewer and drag) and scaled (click and drag a control point) within the Layout.- Open the Configuration Panel for the Streaming Viewer by pushing F5, or from the Configuration Panel item in the View menu.
3.16.2.1 Offline Panels
Assignment Tab
RTP:
The streaming video source may be an Allegro1 Encoder, or an encoder embodied in a Miranda Densité Probe producing thumbnail images of the signal it is monitoring. Kaleido accesses the source using an address of the form RTSP://ip_address/feedid.
In this panel, enter the two components of the address separately.
IP Address: Specify the IP address of the streaming video source.
Feed ID: Identify which of several possible feeds is to be displayed
- If the source is an Allegro1 encoder, give the number of the channel in the data stream, in the format C1, C2, etc.
- If the source is a Densité probe, give the LongID of the Densité frame and card (see How To Display thumbnails or streaming video on the Kaleido-K2?).
Display Options:
Clicking the Restore Native Resolution button will change the size of the Streaming Viewer to be of the native size (pixels) of the current stream. If no stream is available, this has no effect.
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Action Tab
Assign Actions
Action on single click: from the pull-down box, select the Action that will be executed when this Streaming Viewer is single-clicked using the mouse attached to the Kaleido-K2.
Action on double click: from the pull-down box, select the Action that will be executed when this Streaming Viewer is double-clicked using the mouse attached to the Kaleido-K2.
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Appearance Tab
Transparency
Use the slider to select a transparency for the Streaming Viewer. The transparency is only seen when the Streaming Viewer is overlaid on a Video Screen. The selected value is shown as a percentage beneath the slider. Possible values are 0, 15, 30, 45, 55, 70, 85 and 100%.
Border
The appearance of the Streaming Viewer at the Kaleido-K2 output can be enhanced by adding a frame, which creates the appearance of depth. This frame does not appear in the KEdit rendition of the Layout. Select the format of the frame around the screen:
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3.16.2.2 Online Panels (Kaleido-K2 only)
Assignment Tab
RTP:
The streaming video source may be an Allegro1 Encoder, or an encoder embodied in a Miranda Densité Probe producing thumbnail images of the signal it is monitoring. Kaleido accesses the source using an address of the form RTSP://ip_address/feedid.
In this panel, enter the two components of the address separately.
IP Address: Specify the IP address of the streaming video source.
Feed ID: Identify which of several possible feeds is to be displayed.
- If the source is an Allegro1 encoder, give the number of the channel in the data stream, in the format C1, C2, etc.
- If the source is a Densité probe, give the LongID of the Densité frame and card (see How To Display thumbnails or streaming video on the Kaleido-K2?).
Display Options:
Clicking the Restore Native Resolution button will change the size of the Streaming Viewer to be of the native size (pixels) of the current stream. If no stream is available, this has no effect.
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Action Tab
Assign Actions
Action on single click: from the pull-down box, select the Action that will be executed when this Streaming Viewer is single-clicked using the mouse attached to the Kaleido-K2.
Action on double click: from the pull-down box, select the Action that will be executed when this Streaming Viewer is double-clicked using the mouse attached to the Kaleido-K2.
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3.16.3 Operation
3.16.3.1 Fire an Action
Left-click on the Streaming Viewer in the Kaleido display using the mouse.
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