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SYNCHRONOUS PLAYBACK
You can select several cameras and have them all start playing back from the same moment in time. By activating Synchronous Playback, you can
select recorded video from up to four cameras and use a single set of video controls to play, pause, forward, and reverse all four cameras.
To enable synchronous playback:
1. Search for the video you want to play back using either Quick Search or Enhanced Search.
2. On the DVR5100 remote client toolbar, click Synchronous Playback . The currently selected workspace switches to a 2 x 2 layout, the
borders of the video panes turn yellow, and the synchronous playback icons appear in the center of each pane (refer to Figure 53).
3. Drag and drop a search result in the upper-left video pane. The message “Primary ready” appears in the pane.
4. Select up to three other cameras from which you want to play back video. Drag and drop the cameras into the other video panes. The video
from the cameras does not appear until you start playback in the primary (upper-left) video pane. The message “Secondary ready” appears
in the center of the other panes with video assigned to them (refer to Figure 53).
NOTE: When start and stop times of the primary and secondary streams are not identical, video in all of the video panes begins to play at
the primary video pane start time. Click Synchronous Playback to jump to the next opportunity to display synchronized video. In some cases,
video in the secondary panes plays at different speeds until it synchronizes with video in the primary pane.
5. Use the video controls panel in the upper-left video pane to play, pause, fast-forward or reverse, and frame forward or reverse.
6. Click Synchronous Playback again to exit Synchronous Playback mode.
Figure 53. Synchronous Playback
