Watching recorded films with the VISULOX player

Overview

Player

In VISULOX Cockpit / Archive / Sessions all ended recorded sessions are displayed.
Selecting a recorded session and pressing the "Player int" button starts the player directly in the Cockpit.

The VISULOX player has several views, controls and presents all information available for the recorded film.

Live player

Users are able to start a live player in their recorded application session to see what has been recorded in this session so far.

Checkout

It is also possible to checkout the recorded sessions to the Transit Zone of the user (via Checkout button in the Cockpit or CLI),
where they can be downloaded to the client. Multiple checkout of recorded sessions is supported and can be configured.

Player elements

Features

Search field

In the search field the events can be filtered:

Search is also done in event information (keyword, info ...)
Search is case insensitive
Search with glob mask is possible

Player tab views

Events	Event list with all registered events is displayed, jumping to events with double click is possible
Snapshots	Snapshots of the tecorded session are displayed, jumping to snapshots with double click is possible
Session	More details can be displayed for the session (e.g. user information)

Below the sidebar the current active user is displayed (useful in recorded cooperation sessions with more participants).

Events	Snapshots	Session

Main screen

The film is displayed in the main part of the screen. The detailed session information of the recorded film is available in the Session tab, showing information about the portal user name, the application name, the Application Server and the time.

Player controls

Timeline

Moveable marker for current position in the running chapter.

Chapter line

Moveable marker for current position in chapter.

The current chapter and the name of the current user is displayed.
The current date / time and the time remaining in the chapter is displayed.

Player controls

PREV Chapter: Jump to previous chapter
PLAY / PAUSE: Play / pause of the chapter at this position
NEXT Chapter: Jump to next chapter
SCALE: Scale film to screen or reset

Live player

To enable the live player in recorded application sessions, use:

CODE

visulox config -name recorder.liveplayer=true

With this setting the "Launch live player" button is displayed in the session controller and the session can be watched from the beginning :

The live player can be enabled for all types of recorded sessions, e.g manual recording, recording via poliy, etc
The session is still recorded, when using the live player.
Keyboard entries are not displayed in the live player

Checked out recorded films

Checkout via Cockpit

Selected recorded sessions can be checked out with the Checkout button on the Archive / Session page of the Cockpit.

A comment has to be filled out for every checkout:

The ZIP-Archive password is displayed and copied to clipboard:

Once the session is checked out, it is available for download in the File Transit Zone of the user:

The files have to be extracted from the downloaded ZIP-Archive (ZIP password is needed!).

Then the recorded chapters can be watched in the browser by opening the chapter HTML files:

Offline player

The oflline player has three tabs: Events, Snapshots and Metadata.
A footnote with information about the session is attached on the bottom of the film.

Player controls	PREV Chapter: Jump to previous chapter PLAY / PAUSE: Play / pause of the chapter at this position NEXT Chapter: Jump to next chapter SCALE: Scale film to screen or reset

Checkout via command line

Recorded sessions can also be checked out with the visulox export sessions command.

For example:

Export all recorded sessions from Administrator in the last week

CODE

visulox export sessions -object Administrator -directory </tmp/export> -starttime "-1 week" -endtime now -run

For a detailed description of the visulox export command, see: How to export information interactive from VISULOX

Checkout configuration options

visulox config -name checkout.
    ----------------------------------------
    | changed | key               | value  |
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    |         | checkout.disksize | 10.0GB |
    |         | checkout.max      | 40     |
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