DebConf8/Videoteam/CheatSheets/DVswitch

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[edit] Operating dvswitch

The dvswitch interface has a main window, some buttons on the left side and the lower part to display the different sources status.

Each new source that you start will appear as a small frame bellow and you can switch between them to get the most relevant picture of the event. What goes into the main window is what will be streamed and recorded.

The real recording process will only start when the record button is pressed in the dvswitch GUI. The cut button will start a new file in the server. It should be pressed at every start and end of events and breaks, so that we have smaller files to deal with.

The pic-in-pic feature is used to insert a smaller picture into the main window, so that two different points of view of the same event can be taken into account. To activate this, after pressing pic-in-pic, select the area where the new picture should appear and apply the effect. To change between the sources, use the A and B buttons bellow each source frame. To turn it off, just press the no effect button.

The audio button bellow the sources frames can select which of them goes to the streaming and recordings. The sound select should always be set to the main camera audio (=to the first source).

To restart everything, you can simply kill the xserver. Be aware that you then need to press 'record' once, as described above.

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