CounterPath Bria 2.0 User Guide - Manual (Page 24)

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Video Conference Calls
Starting a Conference with Video
To start a conference with video, make sure that both the existing calls are video calls. Then click the
Conference button.
Adding Video to an Existing Conference Call
Click the Options button and choose Start Group Video. Your video starts immediately.
Or open the Video panel and click Start my Video.
When you add video, the other party may (or may not) start sending their video to you. You can add video, even
if you do not have a camera, in order to start receiving the other party’s video.
How Video Is Shared
When you conference two calls together, video continues as it was before the conference call. For example, if
you were sharing video with one party, and only sending your video to another party, then that is how the video
will be handled when the conference call is created.
The conference host, serves as the “funnel” for other video. Whatever the conference host is receiving will
automatically be sent to the other parties.
Controlling Video
Once video has been added, it can be paused, resumed and stopped in the same way as on a regular conference
call, by the intitiator of the individual “leg” of the conference call.
The conference host does not have special control over the video, and can only add video on legs for which they
were the initiator.
However, if the conference host pauses or stops video, other participants will no longer receive video, because
the host is the video “funnel” as described above.