description: Changing the video layout in TrueConf Room during a conference, displaying content and participants' video windows on an additional screen

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Working with the conference video layout

Changing video layout

To select a video layout, you need to:

1. Click the Change layout button in the conference control panel.

2. In the bottom panel, click the Layout type button and then select the video layout of the participants that suits you best.

You can also enable broadcasting the conference video layout over the local network as an NDI stream, select how priority windows will be switched, and hide your own video window from the video layout.

If you are one of the moderators of the conference (including its owner or operator), you can customize the video layout for its participants as described in the personal area section of the user guideTrueConf Server. To do this, click the Real-time management button in the conference control panel.

Sending an additional (secondary) stream

This feature is currently in beta testing.

TrueConf Room supports sending two video streams while actively participating in a conference. This feature allows you to flexibly combine different content coming from the terminal in the video layout for other participants. The additional stream can be a second camera, content from a capture card, or a presentation (it must be enabled in the TrueConf Room Service settings).

To enable this feature, TrueConf Room creates a copy of the main application, which you can find in the list of active programs. In the terminal settings section, you can select the secondary camera that will be used to capture video in an additional video stream.

The copy of the open application contains a link and a QR code to go to the control panel, where you can configure the second video stream separately.

Now, in all TrueConf Room conferences, the second stream will be broadcast automatically, and the participant list will display two participants on behalf of the terminal.

Changing the priority window

To select the priority window, go to video layout settings and double-click on the video window of a conference participant. It will be displayed larger than the other windows. You can also enable automatic switching of the priority window. To do this, click the Active speaker mode button and select Enable.

Please note that the Active speaker mode feature is unavailable when selecting the Gallery view video layout.

Dragging video windows to a different screen

TrueConf Room может работать с несколькими экранами.

If the computer running the software terminal has multiple monitors and some of them should not be displayed when selecting, you can hide the unnecessary ones using the launch parameter --ignore_monitor [monitor_number], where monitor_number is the monitor number in the OS. For example, when opening the application through the console using this key:

"C:\Program Files\TrueConf\Room\TrueConfRoom.exe" --ignore_monitor 2

This will be useful when connecting control tablets for working with the TrueConf Room control panel.

To show one of the conference participants or shared content on a separate display, you can use one of the following options.

Option 1

1. Click the Change layout button in the conference control panel.

2. Drag a separate window to your second display.

To return the video window to the main monitor, drag the window back to the main layout area.

Option 2

1. Click the Change layout button in the conference control panel.

2. In the pop-up window, click the participant’s video window you want to drag to a separate display.

3. You will see a pop-up menu with a list of available monitors. Select the item that matches the required display.