Instant Playback

Interactive live view mode gives you the opportunity to browse the archive right in the same viewport, without having to switch to the playback mode. This allows you to view recent footage for selected channels, while still having live view displayed for other devices. By default, footage is loaded for the previous five minutes and the playback starts five seconds before the current moment; use the <> timeline boundary controls to change time range by clicking and dragging mouse to the right (zoom in) and to the left (zoom out) of the <> arrows.

This mode is only available for channels that have recording enabled.

To enable instant archive playback, use the Play button overlay control in the bottom right corner. The channel will automatically switch to playback mode, allowing you to select timestamps, create bookmarks and take snapshots. To exit instant playback mode, use X in the overlay controls' bottom right section.

Instant playback mode can be enabled for one, multiple or all viewports in the current layout: you can switch between live and instant playback viewports without any limitations. This archive presentation mode is also used when investigating data from external services and from data sources in the corresponding Macula Monitor tabs.

The following overlay controls are available in the instant playback mode:

• Upper left:

  • X - close the stream and free viewport

  • viewport lock status: unlocked (default) or locked; unlocked means that the viewport can be used for map/camera pop-up and may therefore be replaced by other camera at any moment

  • camera name

• Centre: play/pause

  • click to play

  • drag to the centre of the line to pause

  • drag right to go fast forward

  • drag left to rewind fast

  • release from dragging to continue normal playback

• Bottom right: controls

  • Play button: switch to regular multichannel playback (current layout will be used)

  • go to specific time (keyboard shortcut: Space)

  • create a bookmark with current timestamp

  • take a snapshot

  • export loaded footage as a video clip (current timeline boundaries will be used)

• Bottom: timeline

  • use your mouse wheel to zoom the timeline in and out (mouse position will be used as centre)

  • use the <> arrows to adjust the loaded archive time boundaries (which, by default, are the last five minutes)

    • drag right to go forward in time

    • drag left to go backwards in time

  • the vertical yellow line indicates current playback moment, drag it anywhere or click to move along the timeline

  • the narrow red horizontal line shows recorded video

  • the white line (a little bit wider than the red one) indicates motion

  • the red line (a little bit wider than the white one) shows recorded incoming audio

  • the wide transparent white line denotes VCA metadata

  • bookmarks look like little green flags on the timeline

Instant playback mode has two configurable settings: default duration and rewind time:

• default timeline duration is the interval size for the footage presented in the instant playback mode, default: five minutes (300 seconds)

• rewind is the amount of time for the playback to jump back before "now" (the moment when the instant playback mode was enabled), default: five seconds

Both values can be changed via Macula Monitor Application Settings.