NCast Presentation Recorder Reference Manual
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Manual – Recording must be started and stopped by the user via controls on the Quick Start
page or by the room controller via one of the serial interfaces or via the REST API.
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Auto – Recording starts automatically when the Session starts.
4.9.2.
Set Recording Filename
The default archived filename is of the form
20071119-143206-001.mp4
which represents the start time of the recording through use of the fields:
year, month, day, hours,
minutes, seconds, channel-number, filetype
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This default filename format may be altered to reflect more customized filenames through use of a
formatting string utilizing any of the following codes:
Format String
Function
%a
Abbreviated weekday name (for example Sun)
%b
Abbreviated month name (for example Jan)
%c
4 digit counter
%C
6 digit counter
%d
Day of the month (01 to 31)
%H
Hour (00 to 23)
%I
Hour (01 to 12)
%m
month (01 to 12)
%M
minute (00 to 59)
%n
Channel number (001 to 100)
%p
AM or PM
%P
am or pm
%S
seconds (00 to 61)
%Y
year
%%
%
For example, if a Presentation Recorder user wishes to create a custom filename for the “Accounting
101” series of lectures, the following filename formatting string might be used:
Acct101-%Y-%m-%d
This will create filenames of the form:
Acct101-2007-11-19.mp4
Acct101-2007-11-21.mp4
Acct101-2007-11-23.mp4
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