Add PTZ Optics Camera as NDI Video source

[Jud Leonard]

I'm trying to set up OBS with a PTZ Optics NDI camera connected by ethernet to a Mac Mini M1. I have the camera's IP address, I have installed the NDI Tools, and I'm able to access the camera's control interface through Chrome, but I can't find where to give OBS the camera's IP address. Some docs refer to an "Add Source" command in OBS, but I can't find it.

 

[Lawrence_SoCal]

Here's the OBS Studio quick-start guide:

OBS Studio Quickstart

OBS Studio - Free and open source software for live streaming and screen recording - obsproject/obs-studio

obsproject.com

Others recommend watching the Nerd or Die tutorial video series:

OBS Studio Tutorial Series Introduction | Tutorial 1/13

Welcome to our OBS Studio tutorial series! In this series we're going to cover everything that you'll need to know to make your stream look great.Next Video...

www.youtube.com

Have you watched the StreamGeeks (PTZOptics) YouTube video on NDI and OBS?

 

[Jud Leonard]

I've been through the guides, most of which are talking about video capture from games. I have a PTZ Optics NDI camera. I've installed the NDI Tools for Mac, and the NDI plugin for OBS. NDI Video Monitor is able to show the camera output, but I have been unable to get OBS to take video from the camera. I've tried selecting NDI Source, and I expected the camera to be one of the choices for Source name, but there weren't any listed, so I entered the name I gave to the camera, but still get no video. I also tried using the IP address, with no luck.

 

[Urbanian]

I've been through the guides, most of which are talking about video capture from games. I have a PTZ Optics NDI camera. I've installed the NDI Tools for Mac, and the NDI plugin for OBS. NDI Video Monitor is able to show the camera output, but I have been unable to get OBS to take video from the camera. I've tried selecting NDI Source, and I expected the camera to be one of the choices for Source name, but there weren't any listed, so I entered the name I gave to the camera, but still get no video. I also tried using the IP address, with no luck.

I've seen similar comments a number of threads, and am having this problem myself. Some threads claimed it was a Big Sur issue, but I've upgraded to Monterey. Did you get it to work? What did you do?

 

[Urbanian]

Something you might check if you haven't already found a solution: I was having the same problem, but today PTZOptics support realized that our just delivered last week 30X PTZOptics camera had old firmware that didn't support NDI 4. The Mac NDI scene support uses NDI 4.

With the camera's firmware updated, now I can use it in OBS!

To answer an earlier question, you don't have to enter the camera's IP anywhere. It will appear automatically in the Name pull-down list in the NDI scene configuration.