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7.7. Groups and Synchronisation
Join Group
The boards, which are opened in PlayerLWm or separate PlayerLW applications, can be
groped in order to start decoding synchronously.
- Open Group menu clicking on [GROUP] button in Decoder Tab (page 21).
- In the menu click in the Group column opposite of the board which has to be added to the
group (page 21 (4)). The list of groups appears.
- Choose the number of group for the board.
- Repeat previous step for others boards.
- Close the menu. Every grouped board will show the group number in configuration (Preview
Window page 15 main window)
NOTE:
Only stopped board can be added to the group.
If the boards in the group are decoding the group is locked. Stop the group to join a new
board.
A board in the group can be closed during decoding without any negative effect for the other
boards in the group.
Leave Group
If the boards in the group are stopped:
- Open Group menu.
- Regroup the boards.
If the boards in the group are decoding:
- Close the configuration. Press on Close of the configuration in Preview Window or open
[PLAYER CONFIGURATION] and choose [CLOSE] (page 15)
- Open [PLAYER CONFIGURATION] and choose [OPEN CONFIGURATION].
- Select the configuration you’ve just closed.
- Open Group Menu.
- Select Group for the configuration (configuration is ActiveProfile + Board).
- Close Group menu.
Synch-start
When the boards are grouped.
- Choose one of the grouped configurations.
- Press [PLAY] button in the Decode Tab.
Synch-start and synch decoding is guaranteed only when the boards
are genlocked.
See next chapter How to genlock.
NOTE