12.4 Video Widgets
Video widgets provide live and archived video viewing capabilities directly within workspaces and layouts.
Video Player
The Video player widget displays video from a variety of sources — monitoring objects, external streams, mosaics, state panels, and video walls. It is one of the most commonly used widgets for operational monitoring workspaces.
Table 63. Video player widget operating modes
| Mode | Description |
|---|---|
| Client side | View streams that are monitoring objects or user-created streams (see Section 7) |
| Preview | View streams generated by measurement presets (Preview section of the preset, see Section 5.2) |
| External URL | View a stream by entering its URL directly |
| Mosaic | View a mosaic screen with streaming parameters configured in the mosaic settings (see Section 6.5) |
| State panel | View a state panel |
| Video wall panel | View a video wall |
Figure 302. Video player widget parameters
To configure the widget, first select the operating mode in the Video player field, then fill in the mode-specific options:
| Option | Applicable modes | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Object | Client side, Preview, External URL | The monitoring object to display |
| Stream | Client side | The specific stream of the monitoring object |
| Video URL | External URL | URL of the external stream |
| Node | Mosaic | The node that hosts the mosaic |
| Mosaic | Mosaic | The mosaic screen on the selected node |
| State panel | State panel | The state panel to display |
| Video wall | Video wall panel | The video wall to display |
Video Thumbnails
The Video thumbnails widget is designed for browsing video thumbnail images that MultiProbe stores for monitoring objects. This feature must be enabled in the measurement preset settings for the relevant monitoring object — see Section 5.2.
Figure 303. Video thumbnails widget parameters
The widget supports two viewing modes:
| Mode | Description |
|---|---|
| Mosaic | Thumbnails are displayed in a grid layout |
| Timeline | Thumbnails are displayed sequentially in a horizontal line |
To configure the widget, set the following fields:
| Parameter | Description |
|---|---|
| Thumbnails variant | Select the display mode: Mosaic or Timeline |
| Object | The monitoring object whose stored thumbnails are displayed |