Controlling Independent Playback in live monitor from plugin

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I am developing a plugin to work with Milestone XProtect smart client. The use case is to play live and also recorded videos in build in live tab.

Please let me know which of the following approach is feasible.

  1. Is it possible to create a View plugin, similar to SC Independent playback sample, and override the tiles in live tab with this plugin ?

Is there a way to access each tile in live tab and override them with custom view plugin ? I dont want to select from “setup” window. I should be able to programmatically

play a camera in a tile with my custom plugin.

  1. Is there a way to trigger independent playback from plugin (by passing specific “goto” time ) in live tab for a particular tile ?

I dont see any message to trigger independent playback in live tab.

Please let me know if there is any other approach for solving this issue.

Also we need to add some content over each time (some context information ). Is it possible to add text (instead of camera name over the tile ) over the tile ?.

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Earlier this week I answered whether it is possible to determine if a camera view is in ‘independent playback’ mode. Unfortunately the answer is the same here as it was then: There is no functionality neither to detect nor to control independent playback in the regular camera view items from a MIP Plugin.

I will make a note that you have asked for this, maybe the fact that we see this question often will help on prioritization..

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Milestone developed an enhancement that gives you the ability to control independent playback in the regular camera view items from a MIP Plugin. This will be released with the 2021 R1 version.

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@Bo Ellegård Andersen (Milestone Systems)​ Thank you very much for the response.

Could you please confirm whether its possible to add contents over the video tile. For eg: Currently camera name is shown over the tile where the video is playing. Can we show additional content over the tile from plugin.

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No, you cannot put your own text in the header. You can instead add an overlay text.

See the Analytics Overlay sample. http://doc.developer.milestonesys.com/html/index.html?base=samples/analyticsoverlay_sample.html&tree=tree_1.html or the Active Elements Overlay sample http://doc.developer.milestonesys.com/html/index.html?base=samples/activeelementsoverlay_sample.html&tree=tree_1.html