The Playback Toolbar gathers all main commands to operate an E3Playback.
Playback toolbar
This toolbar contains the options described on the next table.
Available options on the Playback toolbar
Option |
Action |
|---|---|
Play (backward) |
Starts playing data at the current playback time, moving the clock back according to the current playback speed |
Pause |
Freezes playback clock at the current time |
Play |
Starts playing data at the current playback time, moving the clock forward according to the current playback speed |
Stop |
Interrupts playback, data Tags and alarms are removed from Screens, and no new query is performed on its database |
Slower |
Slows down playback speed in half. Minimum value is 1/1024x, that is, moves forward approximately one millisecond of data at every second |
Normal Speed |
Sets playback speed to its normal value (1x) |
Faster |
Doubles playback speed. Maximum value is 1024x, that is, at every second playback clock moves forward 1024 seconds (approximately 17 minutes) |
Speed Selector |
Allows selecting a playback speed |
Current Date and Time |
Displays current playback clock's date and time, and allows selecting a new date |
Show or Hide Timeline |
Shows or hides E3Playback's Timeline window |
Show or Hide Tag List |
Shows or hides E3Playback's Tag window |
Show or Hide Event List |
Shows or hides E3Playback's Event window |
Start or Stop Video Recording |
Allows generating a video (in AVI format) capturing the entire playback area during a certain period of time, or until users stop recording |
Capture E3Playback Screen |
Allows capturing playback Screen area. Captured Screens can be saved to a BMP file or copied to the Clipboard |
When selecting the Video Recording 
tool, the window on the next figure is displayed.
Recording options window
The available options on this window are described on the next table.
Available options for Recording options window
Option |
Description |
|---|---|
Save video as |
Displays path and name of a video file to save. Click |
Maximum recording time |
Allows defining a total recording time. If it is set to Undefined, recording only stops if E3Playback video recording option is clicked. The Time (s) option allows pre-defining a maximum recording time, in seconds (in this case recording is automatically stopped at the end of the selected time) |
Frames per second |
Configures the number of frames captured at every second of this recording process |
Show mouse cursor in recording |
When this option is enabled, the mouse pointer appears in the recorded video. Default value for this option is disabled. The recorded mouse pointer in this video is the one configured as Windows default. Animated mouse pointers are not animated in this video. In this case, the first frame of this animation is always displayed |
Compressor |
Video compressor used on the recording process. All compressors installed on the computer are listed, if supported by E3Playback |
Compression quality |
Configures compression rate, which affects the final quality of this video, and therefore the size of the resulting file |
Frame interval at each keyframe |
Configures the number of frames at each key frame |
Configure (compressor) |
Opens a new window with specific settings for the selected compressor |
About |
Opens a new window with information about the selected compressor |
Record audio |
Enables audio recording. Default value of this option is disabled |
Device |
Lists all audio devices installed and enabled on the computer that can be used on audio recording |
Format |
Displays information about the audio format currently selected |
Attributes |
Displays information about attributes of the currently selected audio format |
Configure (audio) |
Displays a window allowing to change the recording format and audio attributes |
Show summary when finish recording |
Enables or disables a window displayed when the recording process is finished |
