User Guide for Polycom® RMX™ 500 and Polycom® RMX™1000 Systems
(Conference on Ports)
9-5
• Directly select an endpoint conference site to be displayed at the window.
• If the "Symmetric Layout" option is selected, a user can only select the
multi-screen layout with the same size of windows.
• In the Same Layout mode, participants will view the video of their conference
sites.
Set Viewers and Hosts
Define the viewers and hosts in a conference, in spite of the multi-screen
mode strategy for a conference; specify the fixed target conference site for a
participant to watch. This function has the following limitations:
• Used only for multi-screen conferences satisfying the following
conditions:
― Conferences using fixed multi-screen layout, with the number of
participants equal to the number of selected multi-screen panes plus 2
Conferences which are not in 16 multi-screen layout
― The multi-screen pane has been set to display a fixed conference site
― None of the video stream channels has a capability of H.263, 4CIF
• The viewer must be an endpoint which uses the first channel of video
stream capability to access the conference.
• The endpoint which has been appointed as the chairperson cannot
become a viewer.
• If the conference is a single channel conference with a capability of 4CIF
or CIF, up to 7 endpoints can be displayed on the conference screen when
this function is enabled.
Set viewers and hosts:
1 In the Conferences list pane, double-click the desired conference.
2 Click the Video Settings on the conference parameter page.
3 Specify the viewers and hosts on the bottom of the page, and then click
OK.
Customized Polling
The administrator can customize a polling queue so that the multi-screen
window which has been set to do automatic polling can display the
conference sites one by one in the queue. The display sequence is the same as
the sorting sequence in a queue.
Set the polling queue:
1 In the Conferences list pane, double-click the desired conference.
2 Click Customized Polling on the conference parameter page to display the
list of current participants.