Open and play recordings
Open and play recordings
You can play live and completed recordings. On the All Recordings and Archived pages, each recording has a play button on the right side, next to the Duration item.
Tip:
Use a machine with a GPU for a better playback experience on it.
Click the play button. The playback page appears. Playback starts after memory caching.
Tip:
- Clicking the session progress time lets you switch to the absolute date and time the session was recorded.
- For an event-only recording, the play icon in the upper left corner is unavailable.
Player controls
For a description of the player controls, see the following table:
| Player Control | Description |
|---|---|
| Play button | Plays the selected recording file. |
| Mute/unmute button | Determines whether to remove audio during playback. |
| Progress bar | You can drag the progress bar during playback. Idle periods of recorded sessions are highlighted during playback. |
| Current position of recording playback | Indicates the current position of the recording playback and the total recording duration. The time format is HH:MM:SS. |
| Comments | Lets you click and leave a comment about the recording being played. |
| Share | Lets you share the recording as restricted and unrestricted links. |
| Show stats | Shows the overlay that features data points related to the recorded session. |
| Hide stats | Hides the session data overlay. |
| Playback speed | Indicates the current speed of playback. Click the icon to switch between options including X0.5, X1, X2, and X4. |
| Full screen | Displays the playback in full screen. |
| Exit full screen button | Displays the playback within the webpage. |
In the right pane of the playback page, the Events and Comments filters, quick search box, and some recording data are available:
- The date and time on the player machine. In this example, JUN 13, 2022 and 19:11:02.
- The duration of the recording in playback. In this example, 00:03:04.
- The number of events in the recording. In this example, 18 EVENTS.
- The name of the user whose session was recorded.
- The host name of the VDA where the recorded session was hosted.
- The name of the client device where the session was running.
- Options for sorting search results: Select All, Events, or Comments to sort search results.
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Event filters. You can select more than one filter to search for events in the current recording.
Click the icon to expand display of events. For example:
- Event list. Clicking an event on the list takes you to the position of the event in the recording.
- Quick search box. The search events quick search box helps to quickly narrow down a list of events in the current recording.
Open and play recordings
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