Selecting the layout seen by participants
A layout is the view that each participant has of all the other participants in the conference. Layouts are chosen in advance by the administrator, and some of the options available will depend on whether the conference is being held in a Virtual Meeting Room or Virtual Auditorium.
You cannot convert an existing Virtual Meeting Room into a Virtual Auditorium. Instead, you must create a new Virtual Auditorium and reassign the existing aliases to it. For more information, see Changing from a Virtual Meeting Room to a Virtual Auditorium and vice versa.
Features common to all layouts
Regardless of whether the conference is being held in a Virtual Meeting Room or Virtual Auditorium,
- When there are between one and four audio-only participants, each is represented by an indicator on the left side of the video window. The indicator will include either the participant's image (if available via an policy profiles) or the audio-only icon: . (This image can be changed; see Creating and editing themes.) When an audio-only participant is speaking, their indicator will expand to show their name in addition to the image or icon.
- If there are five or more audio-only participants, they are represented by a single indicator which includes the audio-only icon followed by the total number of audio-only participants. When one of the audio-only participant speaks, the indicator will expand to show their name, followed by their image or the audio-only icon, and the number of other audio-only participants.
- Participants who are receiving video but not sending video (for example, if they have disabled their camera) are represented by an icon of a camera with a line through it .
- Video participants who are on hold, or who are experiencing connectivity issues, are represented by a frozen grayscale image.
- If there are more video participants than there are live thumbnail views available, the last thumbnail is replaced by an icon indicating the number of additional participants not currently visible.
- When a participant is the only device that is sending video, that participant sees a holding screen until other video participants join the conference. The holding screen indicates either that the participant is the only participant in the conference, or that all of the other participants are audio-only (and they are shown via their audio-only indicators as usual). The holding images are fully customizable via the theme associated with the service (Virtual Meeting Room, Call Routing Rule etc).
- A full list of participants is available using Infinity Connect clients.
- If the conference includes a streaming participant (e.g. it is being streamed to YouTube), a streaming icon is displayed to the right of the video window. (This image can be changed; see Creating and editing themes.)
- When the conference is locked, or has just been unlocked, a lock icon is displayed to the right of the video window. (This image can be changed; see Creating and editing themes.)
- If there are participants waiting to join a locked conference, the number of participants will be shown beneath the lock icon.
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When sending presentation content to a single-stream endpoint such as Skype or broadcasting via an RTMP stream (when not dialed out with dual streaming), Pexip Infinity sends the video stream of the active speaker in a small window in the upper right corner of the presentation.
Showing the names of speakers
Each Virtual Meeting Room and Virtual Auditorium has the option to show the name of the current speaker along the bottom of their video image. To enable this option, go to or , select the service, and next to the Show names of speakers field select Yes.
When this option has been enabled, the names of the speakers will be shown as follows:
- Automatically dialed participants (regardless of the type of endpoint that was dialed): either the ADP's configured Participant display name or, if this field is blank, the Participant alias, will be shown.
- Manually dialed participants (regardless of the type of endpoint that was dialed): either the participant's configured Participant display name or, if this field is blank, the Participant alias, will be shown.
- Infinity connect desktop client and Web App participants: the text that the user entered into the client's Your name field will be shown.
- Infinity Connect Mobile client for Android: the text that the user entered into the client's Profile field will be shown
- Infinity Connect Mobile client for iOS: the text that the user configured in the client's field will be shown. (If they haven't configured this field, the device's name will be shown instead.)
- SIP endpoints: the endpoint's display name will be shown.
- H.323 endpoints: the endpoint's alias will be shown.
- Lync / Skype for Business clients: the username portion of the user's sign-in address will be used, for example if Alice signs in as alice@example.com the text alice will be shown.
The default font for this and all other overlaid system-generated text is Roboto, or if that is not available for the selected language, Noto Sans.
Virtual Meeting Room layouts
All video-enabled participants in a Pexip Infinity Virtual Meeting Room see the same layout, regardless of whether they are Hosts or Guests. Administrators can select between the following options (go to and select the Virtual Meeting Room you wish to change):
Option | Description |
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Full-screen main speaker only (1 + 0 layout) |
Participants see a single speaker, with no thumbnails.
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Large main speaker and up to 7 other participants (1 + 7 layout) |
Participants see each other in the standard 1+7 layout.
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Small main speaker and up to 21 other participants (1 + 21 layout) | This is the same as the 1 + 7 layout option, except the main speaker is shown slightly smaller in order to accommodate up to 21 other participants in 3 rows of live thumbnails at the bottom of the screen. |
2 small main speakers and up to 21 other participants (2 + 21 layout) | This is the same as the 1 + 21 layout option, except the top row contains both the main speaker and most recent speaker side by side. |
Virtual Auditorium layouts
With Pexip Infinity Virtual Auditoriums, Guest participants only ever see the Host participants; however, Hosts will see Hosts and Guests. Administrators choose from separate options for the layout shown to Guests and the layout shown to Hosts. Additionally, administrators can configure the Virtual Auditorium so that when a presentation is being shown, the presenter is kept in the main view.
To select which layouts are shown to Hosts and Guests, go to Virtual Auditorium you wish to change. The options available are described below.
and select theHost view
Option | Description |
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Full-screen main speaker only (1 + 0 layout) |
Hosts see a single speaker, with no thumbnails.
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Large main speaker and up to 7 other participants (1 + 7 layout) |
Hosts see other Host and Guest participants in the standard 1+7 layout.
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Small main speaker and up to 21 other participants (1 + 21 layout) | This is the same as the 1 + 7 layout option, except the main speaker is shown slightly smaller in order to accommodate up to 21 other participants in 3 rows of live thumbnails at the bottom of the screen. |
2 small main speakers and up to 21 other participants (2 + 21 layout) | This is the same as the 1 + 21 layout option, except the top row contains both the main speaker and most recent speaker side by side. This option is useful in combination with the Lock presenter as main speaker option, so that other participants can see the presenter and the person they are speaking to at the same time. |
Guest view
Guests in a Virtual Auditorium are able to:
- hear and see the Host participant(s)
- hear but not see any of the other Guests, even if a Guest is speaking.
However, if all Hosts have left the conference, Guests will be able to see and hear other Guests in the selected layout until the conference is automatically disconnected (after about a minute), or until a Host rejoins.
Option | Description |
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Full-screen Host speaker only (1 + 0 layout) |
Guests see a single Host speaker, with no thumbnails.
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Large Host speaker and up to 7 other Hosts (1 + 7 layout) |
Guests see Host participants in the standard 1+7 layout.
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Small Host speaker and up to 21 other Hosts (1 + 21 layout) | This is the same as the 1 + 7 layout option, except the main Host speaker is shown slightly smaller in order to accommodate up to 21 other Hosts in 3 rows of live thumbnails at the bottom of the screen. |
2 small Host speakers and up to 21 other Hosts (2 + 21 layout) | This is the same as the 1 + 21 layout option, except the top row contains both the main Host speaker and most recent Host speaker side by side. This option is useful in combination with the Lock presenter as main speaker option, so that other participants can see the presenter and the person they are speaking to at the same time. |
Lock presenter as main speaker
You can configure a Virtual Auditorium so that when a presentation is being shown, the main speaker position always shows the presenter instead of the current speaker.
Option | Description |
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Yes |
When a presentation is being shown, the selected layout rules are overridden so that:
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No | When a presentation is being shown, the main speaker position will be voice-switched as usual. |
1 + 0 layout
1 + 7 layout
1+21 layout
2 + 21 layout