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The Test video report

Introduction

ANY-maze includes the ability to automatically record videos of the tests performed in an experiment. When a test video has been recorded in this way, the Test details report's Related reports menu will include an entry for the Test video report where you can watch the video. (For details about how to automatically record test videos see What to record while testing). Therefore, to access the report you should:

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The Test details report will open. Click the Related reports button in the ribbon bar.

Playing a video

When you open this report the video will start playing automatically. However, you can control the video using the buttons shown just below the video window:

Play	Restarts the video when it's paused or stopped.

Pause

Pauses the playing video.

Rewind

Rewinds the video to the start and stops playback.

Jump to label

Opens a menu listing any labels included in the video. Clicking a label will jump to that point in the recording.

Using the Search bar to move through a video recording

When playing a video, ANY-maze shows playback progress using a bar at the bottom of the video window. Using this bar you can scroll backwards and forwards through the video to any point.

In fact, to be strictly correct, you won't be able to scroll to any point because the search bar has a limited resolution based on its width, so if the bar is 1000 pixels wide and you are watching a video that lasts 4 hours, you will be able to jump to any point with, approximately, a 15 second resolution.

As an alternative to scrolling the search bar, you can simply change the playback time which is shown on the left end of the bar. To change the time, point the mouse at either the hours, minutes or seconds and roll the mouse wheel. Each 'step' of the wheel will alter the value being pointed at by 1. So, for example, to move forward 10 minutes in a video simply point at the minutes part of the time and roll the mouse wheel forward 10 steps. In fact, if you hold down the SHIFT key while rolling the wheel then the value will move forward 5 units, making it easier to move quickly.

This technique can also be used to move to an exact point in the video. For example, if you want to move to the point 2:14:00 (2 hours, 14 minutes), then you could point at the hours and roll the mouse wheel 2 steps, then point at the minutes and roll it 14 steps (as you roll the numbers change dynamically, so you don't have to count the steps).

Searching for a video which ANY-maze can't find anymore

When a test is recorded to video, ANY-maze makes a note of the location of the file and uses this to show the video here on the Test video report. But what happens if the video file gets moved to a different location? ANY-maze won't be able to find the file any more.

When this happens, ANY-maze will show a link on the Test video report (instead of the video itself). Clicking this link will open the Search for video file window, where you can search for the file and update ANY-maze's link to it so it will be shown correctly again.

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