With ibaCapture it is possible to display camera views in the ibaPDA signal display area. An instance of ibaCapture Server is equivalent to an ibaCapture module. ibaCapture modules are displayed in the signal tree like all other ibaPDA modules.

The following methods can be used in order to get camera views displayed in the signal display area:

  • A double click on the camera icon in the signal tree opens a camera view showing the actual image of the respective camera (Camera 1 in the figure below).

  • A click on the icon opens a new and empty camera view. Afterwards, you can add one or more cameras by drag and drop.

The component being used for display and application is ibaCapture Player.

Toolbar in ibaPDA camera view

When integrated in ibaPDA, ibaCapture Player provides a toolbar to control the video functions, in contrast to the ribbon-style menus in ibaCapture Manager.

The toolbar "camera settings" is located on top of the camera view. The status of the icons (enabled / disabled) depends on the status of the selected camera(s). When the camera view contains a camera in busy state, all toolbar items will be not available.

All cameras are switched to live view..


All players are selected, no camera can be deselected. To deselect the cameras, click the button again


Selected cameras are removed.


Shows or hides the camera timeline.

For information about the timeline see also chapter Show timeline.



The time selection can be used to jump to a specific point in time in the recording. all video recordings in the selected camera windows are also reset to this time. To specify the time, you can enter the date and time in the time picker.

It is also possible to use a calendar function to specify the point in time. Click the arrow icon to open the calendar dialog .

The replay speed after the time jump can be set in the Properties dialog, see chapter Player settings for all cameras in the Properties section. The function is only available if the selected cameras are in replay mode


All zoomed in players are reset to their original resolution.

Selected cameras are switched to replay/pause mode.

The replay speed of the video recording is then set to zero for all selected camera recordings. It should be borne in mind that all cameras, at this point, are synchronized.



Select playback master in the selection list.

Jump to the next or previous video image.

The control element allows the setting of the replay speed of the selected camera windows. The control element is only available if replay mode is activated.

Note that the replay speed is specified relative to the normal speed. For example, 2.00x means that the current replay speed is twice the normal speed.