Preferred playback location

Last modified: Tuesday February 18, 2025.

To view and change system settings, you must have the correct permissions. See Alta Video Deployment settings.

Choose your preferred playback location

When viewing or exporting video, you can choose to use video stored on the device or video backed up to the cloud.

For devices on networks with low bandwidth, remotely viewing or exporting video from cloud backups might have better performance than playback or export from a device.

You can set the preferred playback location for the deployment. However, users can override this in their user settings. See Edit your Alta Video user settings.

If you choose playback from cloud backups, depending on your backup configuration, playback or exported video might not include all video.

For example, if you only back up Interesting video, any periods of Uninteresting video are not present.

  1. Open the System System tool.
  2. From Deployment, select Settings.
  3. Select Bandwidth.
  4. From Preferred playback location, select Device or Backup.
  5. Click Done.