User guide

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VENICE Client Software User Guide
All steps are explained in more detail in the following.
2.2.1 Connecting to the VENICE Server
The channel connection settings at the top of the user interface are
used to establish a connection to the VENICE server. This step is the first
to start working with the VENICE server. It has to be made with the lo-
cally installed user interface as well as with a remote installed one.
With the channel connection settings you connect to the VENICE server
and allocate one of its video channels. Once a connection is successfully
established, you have full control over this channel and you can use it,
for example, for a play-out operation.
Figure 2-2: The channel connection settings
To connect to one of the video channels of the VENICE server perform
the following:
y Enter in the entry field VENICE IP: the IP address of the VENICE
server that you want to connect to or select an address from its
drop-down list.
y Then click on the respective channel button to request this video
channel from the server.
By clicking on a channel button the connection will be established: First
the VENICE server with the specified IP address is contacted. Then it
tries to allocate the requested video channel. When both steps are suc-
cessful, the clicked video channel button will be displayed in its activat-
ed state, otherwise you will receive an appropriate error message (e.g.
’Cannot connect to server …’ or ’Device already in use’).
Via project files or presets the software can be preconfigured
for certain tasks. Then it may not be necessary to perform all
the steps described below (see section “Preconfiguring the
VENICE Client Software” on page 2-13).
With one instance of the VENICE client software you can con-
trol one video channel. To control other video channels at the
same time you can start the software multiple times.
Once a connection is successfully established, the respective
channel (device) is in use. To connect to this particular video
channel, for example, from another VENICE client software, it
must be freed first (see section “Disconnecting and Freeing a
Video Channel” on page 2-12).