Maintenance Manual

Minimum
outgoing bit
rate
This field sets a lower limit on the bandwidth of the
shared content video encoding sent to content
receivers in a conference.
Changing this setting when there are connected
participants causes the MCU to re-assess whether
there should be content video channels to those
endpoints; the MCU will close existing channels and
open new ones as appropriate.
A single content video stream is used for
each conference, and this stream will be
sent to all endpoints receiving the content
channel as a separate video channel. If
some endpoints are only able to receive
low bit rate streams (for instance if they
have called into the MCU at a low call
rate), it is sometimes preferable to exclude
those endpoints completely from the
content stream rather than force all
viewers to see a reduced bit rate channel.
If you do not want to exclude endpoints
from viewing the shared content video
channel in a conference, make sure this is
set to <no minimum>, which is the default
setting.
Where an endpoint cannot, for whatever
reason, receive the content channel as an
additional video channel, the MCU can
show the content channel as part of the
main video channel. That is, the
participant will see the content as a pane
in the conference layout. This
functionality is controlled by the Display
content in normal video channel setting
(see below).
Note that during a call, an endpoint can
send a 'flow control message' to the MCU
that could cause the MCU to reduce the
bit rate to that endpoint to below the
configured Minimum outgoing bit rate; in
this case, the MCU will close the content
channel to that participant. To re-enable
content (which has been disabled in this
way) to this participant, go to the
conference's Participant list and use the
content enable control. For more
information about altering a participant's
settings during a conference, refer to
Viewing the conference participant list.
Preferred
minimum
passthrough
resolution
The minimum resolution that will be passed on to
endpoints
If an endpoint that can only receive
content below the minimum joins a
conference, the endpoint will not be sent
a passthrough content stream or a
transcoded content stream. If the MCU
receives content with a resolution below
this setting, then it will use the received
resolution as the minimum instead.Grayed
out if Content mode set to Transcoded or
Hybrid.
Start time and duration
Start time The time at which the conference will begin.
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