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Chat, sound, recording and screenshots

Chat

Click Chat on the toolbar to open the chat panel at the side of the session window. Type a message and press Enter (or click the send button).

Your messages appear in the connection manager on the remote PC, where the person there can answer. Their replies appear in your chat panel. When the panel is closed, a note shows the message and the Chat button counts the new ones, for example Chat (2 new).

Chat is handy when you can't talk on the phone, or to leave a note (for example "Restarting now, back in 2 minutes").

Sound

The remote PC's sound plays on your PC while View options > Play the remote sound is on (the default). It comes in high quality (48 kHz stereo), so you can check a video or a sound problem on the remote PC.

You hear nothing if:

  • Play the remote sound is off, here or in Settings > Display for new sessions,
  • the remote PC doesn't allow Sound for your session,
  • nothing is playing on the remote PC, or it has no working sound device (the session then says Audio is not available on this host.).

Sound goes one way only: from the remote PC to you.

Recording

Click the record button on the toolbar to record the session; click it again to stop. A note says where the file went, for example Videos\Obsidian Remote.

  • The recording is an MP4 file of the picture, as you saw it. It is saved as it comes in, without converting, so recording costs your PC almost nothing.
  • The sound is not recorded.
  • Switching to another display, or a change of the remote screen's resolution, starts a new file.
  • The recording stops when the session ends.

The folder is set in Settings > Recording (see Settings), with Open the folder to find your recordings.

The remote PC can forbid recording: its owner or your administrator can turn off Recording for viewers, and the person at the PC can untick it for your session. The record button is then greyed out.

Screenshots

Click the camera button to save the current picture as a PNG file in Pictures\Obsidian Remote. The file name has the remote PC's name and the date and time. A note says where it went.

In the web viewer

The web viewer has chat and screenshots (they download to your browser's download folder) but no recording. See Connecting from a browser.