DistroAV - Network Audio/Video in OBS-Studio using NDI® technology 6.0.0

1. Important Update​

This Version has major & large code changes.
Starting v6 the plugin has been re-branded DistroAV from OBS-NDI.

2. Breaking changes - Uninstall OBS-NDI​

• OBS-NDI must be uninstalled (before or after DistroAV >= 6.x. installation)
• Settings are transferred automatically
• New created NDI Source default to "Pause" behavior
• Custom Bandwidth settings (from 4.14.x) are reverted to "keepalive"

What's Changed​

• Rebrand to "DistroAV" by @paulpv in #1044
• detect obsndi by @paulpv in #1045
• ndi6 by @paulpv in #1055
• final touches by @paulpv in #1057
• Change remaining obs-ndi log entries to DistroAV by @BitRate27 in #1062
• update disconnect feature behavior by @Trouffman in #1066
• Create and adding Hungarian translation - hu-HU.ini file by @janos-i in #1069
• build: Change plugin binary file from DistroAV to lowercase distroav by @paulpv in #1072
• source: clean up code/formatting and tweak logging by @paulpv in #1071
• source: Additionnal code an debug message formatting by @Trouffman
• logging & command-line argument tweaks by @paulpv in #1077
• source: NDI5+ hardware acceleration by @paulpv in #1073
• main output initialized at startup, start/stop doesn't create or destroy… by @bASEstr in #1076
• sources performance improvement tweaks by @paulpv in #1079
• [All of the above and a few more in] 6.0.0 actual by @paulpv in #1050
• Fix : NDI Source name change not detected by @BitRate27 in #1100
• Feature: Rework of the NDI Source behavior settings by @Trouffman @paulpv in #1074
• Fix a crash / lag on shutdown when no source available by @BitRate27 in #1084
• Add Swedish translation by @tellustheguru in #1081

New Contributors​

• @janos-i made their first contribution in #1069
• @bASEstr made their first contribution in #1076
• @tellustheguru in #1081

Full Changelog: 4.14.1...6.0.0

Checksums​

distroav-6.0.0-macos-universal.pkg: fc9c83b50a75e0b19f862e388e10eebe8811485236b79130933b690eab6be557
distroav-6.0.0-source.tar.xz: b3b905585261706e8cd9ca97e49cc146bd7909ec81a4d97e530bd0f0acb0a43f
distroav-6.0.0-windows-x64-Installer.exe: d1cd4351059547a1888e726907f2ee2b7f69d0be75687c6870f80c59093a2b44
distroav-6.0.0-windows-x64.zip: e3df20e2b183c5b77e08d0f0f2598216749e73674935720241cdb3805f1e2d50
distroav-6.0.0-x86_64-linux-gnu-dbgsym.ddeb: 1d57c5fc38b1bec9df17ccdf8444213659355638fb618bc11df15a0b4304edb5
distroav-6.0.0-x86_64-linux-gnu.deb: 998b0c7b7eb3fd10d084fbc4c6b19b23730a4098136015deb966f72e8d77a638

THIS WILL BE THE LAST VERSION OF THIS PLUGIN RELEASED UNDER THE NAME OBS-NDI!​

Future versions will use the project's new name of DistroAV!​

For more information see OBS-NDI Is Now DistroAV​

What's Changed​

• CI: Remove quotes '' from receipt and version strings by @chrisgrande in #1032
• Update libndi-get.sh by @Trouffman in #1041
• Audio only master by @Trouffman in #1043
• settings: Add AutoCheckForUpdates opt out by @paulpv in #1047
• settings: layout cleanup by @paulpv in #1048 & #1049
• Improvement to update functionality by @paulpv in #1052
• 4.14.1: Minor release to real-world test Update BEFORE bigger 6.0.0 release by @paulpv in #1056
• update: improve error message from new update server response code by @paulpv in #1058

New Contributors​

• @chrisgrande made their first contribution in #1032

Full Changelog: 4.14.0...4.14.1

Checksums​

obs-ndi-4.14.1-macos-universal.pkg: 3b7920d66afabf0f5ca6e1567ef9c48ced112799e8ba28f27621f26b8d544bd8
obs-ndi-4.14.1-source.tar.xz: d807154d4d61e54dd03e0a4e6e0df861538a8339b0d6a4103982c8bd585d11ae
obs-ndi-4.14.1-windows-x64-Installer.exe: df272bd6efc3dca9e87998a6506ed55bc650aafbf9b61ac67b71d97a54d559ab
obs-ndi-4.14.1-windows-x64.zip: fcb22daee2a36933aab0bf95240a5033854fb2d32668ead7c7c3fb060d421747
obs-ndi-4.14.1-x86_64-linux-gnu-dbgsym.ddeb: 21346b3350dfd3eea071b7282546a11a870cb1faf7a199f57bdc3395be9061af
obs-ndi-4.14.1-x86_64-linux-gnu.deb: 098b886a5edee62ff2a129ad2b1606df0c511d0b7e9af0a497c06ac8b9644c8d

What's Changed​

• Source: add support for auto-disconnecting NDI connection by @haakonnessjoen in #993
• Update libndi-get.sh to use libNDI v6 by @Trouffman in #1013
• Fix bug 974: scene name changes arbitrarily by @BitRate27 in #1016
• Add NDI group support for NDI outputs of program, preview and NDI source filters by @rse in #1030
• New Feature: Check For Update by @paulpv in #1028

New Contributors​

• @haakonnessjoen made their first contribution in #993
• @BitRate27 made their first contribution in #1016
• @rse made their first contribution in #1030

Full Changelog: 4.13.0...4.14.0

What's Changed​

This plugin now requires OBS >= v30.0.0 which requires Qt6 which requires 64-bit.

• 4.13.0: Changing dependency from OBS 29.1.3 to 30.0.0 by @paulpv in #926

Full Changelog: 4.12.0...4.13.0

Windows, Linux and macOS Install instructions: see the release page on GitHub.

What's Changed​

• Update Readme with new NDI Runtime link by @Trouffman in #876
• Update to latest obs-plugintemplate code by @paulpv in #912
• Fixing build symlinks by @paulpv in #913 #914
• Fixing build failures that have been around since 2023/05/26 by @paulpv in #915 #916 #917 #918
• Fix dangling pointer access in main output by @norihiro in #920
• Update french translation by @Trouffman in #860
• Add Romanian Translation by @Trouffman in #891
• Add Latency buffering options by @congoblue in #867
• Add ptz to ndi source by @exeldro in #885
• Preparing for 4.12.0 release by @paulpv in #919
• Added experimental Framesync mode to NDI Source:
  https://docs.ndi.video/docs/sdk/14.-ndi-recv#frame-synchronization

New Contributors​

• @Trouffman made their first contribution in #876
• @congoblue made their first contribution in #867
• @exeldro made their first contribution in #885

Full Changelog: 4.11.1...4.12.0

Windows, Linux and macOS Install instructions: see the release page on GitHub.

What's Changed​

• CMakeLists: Compiles for arm targets by @venepe in #533
• Add Ukrainian (uk-UA) locale by @Mant1kor in #483
• [NEEDS TESTERS] CI: Fix MacOS Build by @tt2468 in #567
• Source: fix 16 audio channel crash by @jedmartin93 in #518
• fix timecode translation by @mattatcha in #603
• Revert "fix timecode translation" by @mattatcha in #623
• Change audio output to use synthetic timecode. by @darthsteven in #564
• Configurable tally by @sampie777 in #618
• README: Add Ubuntu fix cmake flag and update some other stuff by @tt2468 in #626
• source: add a switch to disable audio by @norihiro in #482
• Update 4.x.x to use obs plugin template by @DDRBoxman in #776
• DDRBoxman's audio patch by @paulpv in #834
• Replacing NDI SDK 4.x include headers w/ 5.x by @paulpv in #835
• Add Issue template for bug reporting by @paulpv in #833
• 4.11.0 combined audio fix + plugintemplate + NDI5 by @paulpv in #849
• add Korean translation (ko-KR) by @wkpark in #753

New Contributors​

• @venepe made their first contribution in #533
• @Mant1kor made their first contribution in #483
• @tt2468 made their first contribution in #567
• @jedmartin93 made their first contribution in #518
• @mattatcha made their first contribution in #603
• @darthsteven made their first contribution in #564
• @sampie777 made their first contribution in #618
• @norihiro made their first contribution in #482
• @wkpark made their first contribution in #753

Full Changelog: 4.9.1...4.11.0

Windows, Linux and macOS Install instructions: see the release page on GitHub.

This release is for OBS 28.0.0 or above. It is not a feature release, it simply provides updated binaries to support the changes made in OBS 28

The Ubuntu binaries are for OBS 28, but are compiled for Qt5 on Ubuntu 20.04. Binaries for 22.04 and Qt6 are not currently available.

The macOS binaries are for OBS 28 and Qt6, but you will likely not be able to use this version on ARM machines due to libndi 4 not providing support for ARM.

Windows​

• Using the installer (recommended) : download it, launch it and follow the instructions.
• Using the obs-ndi-4.10.0-Qt6-Windows.ziparchive:
  1. Copy the contents of the archive to the root of your OBS Studio installation folder
  2. Install the NDI 4.5 Windows runtime using the installer provided here: https://ndi.palakis.fr/runtime/ndi-runtime-4.5.1-Windows.exe

On Windows, you must reboot your computer to make a new or updated NDI Runtime installation effective

Ubuntu/Debian (Qt5)​

Download libndi4_4.5.1-1_amd64.deb and obs-ndi-4.10.0-Ubuntu64.deb (both are provided below), and install them on your system.

macOS​

1. Download and run obs-ndi-4.10.0-Qt6-macOS.pkg (provided below)
2. Install the NDI 4.5.1 macOS runtime using the installer provided here: https://ndi.palakis.fr/runtime/ndi-runtime-4.5.1-macOS.pkg

(P.S. Thanks to @DDRBoxman for the binaries here and getting us by for the time being while 5.x is in development!)

Windows, Linux and macOS Install instructions: see the release page on GitHub.

This release fixes an issue targeting the Debian/Ubuntu package. For the latest Windows and macOS release, see obs-ndi 4.9.0.

Only use this release with OBS Studio v25 or above!

Changes since 4.9.0

• Ubuntu Bugfix: plugin installed in the wrong location (is supposed to be in /usr/lib/obs-plugins instead of /usr/lib/$multiarch/obs-plugins)

Windows, Linux and macOS Install instructions: see the release page on GitHub.

Only use this release with OBS Studio v25 or above!

Changes since 4.8.0

• Improvements to the NDI Source (#459):
  • The "Sync" setting now defaults to "Source Timing"
    • This is the best option to keep audio and video synced together, and it has been tested against OBS and vMix with successful results.
  • Among the options of the "Sync" source parameter, the "Internal" sync option has been removed
    • This mode never actually worked and is fundamentally flawed.
• All platforms now target OBS v25 or above (including you, macOS users!)
• Feature: Russian translation (#443)
• Bugfix: the Ubuntu/Debian package now only installs the plugin into /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/obs-plugins (#460)

Windows, Linux and macOS Install instructions: see the release page on GitHub.

Only use this release with OBS Studio v25 (v24 on macOS) or above!

Changes since 4.7.1

Features & Improvements

• NDI 4.5 support (#416)
  • On macOS, you need to install the NDI 4.5 runtime manually! (runtime download links are provided on the Download page linked below)
• Spanish localization (thanks @COOLIGUAY in #357)

Bug fixes

• Bugfix: The NDI Output Settings dialog wasn't always showing text input fields for the Program & Preview output names (#373)
• Bugfix: NDI runtime download issues on Windows. The obs-ndi installer now downloads the runtime from a mirror I manage to prevent download errors that cause failed installs (#140)
• A myriad of macOS bugfixes:
  • The plugin wasn't loading because of a problem with how macOS looks for plugin dependencies (#409)
  • With NDI 4.5 installed on the system, obs-ndi 4.7.1 would crash. This is now fixed with the addition of NDI 4.5 support.
  • The obs-ndi installer could fail to download the NDI runtime because of download server issues, or could fail to install it because it is not digitally signed. This step has been removed. macOS users now have to download & install the NDI 4.5 runtime separately (links provided on the Download page).
  • In addition to being digitally signed, the obs-ndi installer is now also notarized by Apple. This should eliminate "malicious software" errors on Catalina.

Windows, Linux and macOS Install instructions: see the release page on GitHub.