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

DistroAV - Network Audio/Video in OBS-Studio using NDI® technology 6.1.1

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YT SRT ingest will be some time. I heard rumour of late 2023 but I don't hold any store by that,

I have streaming boxes that have SRT in/out (among a multitude of other options) but one camera basically works with NDI so that is the only reason left to use the format.
 
I see a lot of people complaining about this plugin having issues, but I don't have any issues at all on windows now that they have patched with the 4.10.1 plugin here https://github.com/DDRBoxman/obs-ndi/releases/tag/4.10.1 . Both of my windows PC's are connected via a netgear GSS108E.

All I did to install is install the latest NDI Tools 5.5.2.0 on both pc's from here https://www.ndi.tv/tools/#download-tools . I had whatever the lastest version of OBS 28 at the time on both PC's. Then I downloaded the zip version of the OBS NDI plugin which has two folders when you unzip. I placed the files in each of those folders in the appropriate folders in my OBS directories on both PC's and everything seems to be working. I don't get any stuttering or have any audio desync issues at all. I did a 5 hour stream on twitch to test (not a regular streamer at all) last weekend and as far as I can tell everything is as expected. You can view that here if you would like https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1701651203 . Maybe you can point out issues that I'm missing, but as far as I can tell it works?
 
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@SigAddict You're missing, that cameras are out of sync after around 45minutes. Means, no more lip-sync, if you're working with multiple cameras. But that's more a thing of NDI itself, than the plugin. The plugin itself is not made for ARM-Macs, so you'll have to make a workaround, as I described earlier. These are only two things, more you did read here in the forum ;) And, as always, five users means five machines with different requirements, means six opinions, and much more system-settings ;)
 
Hi All - Happy new year

I had the NDI plugin all working fine - had to work a few other things - now come back to complete setup and upgraded OBS to 29.0.0 on Mac M1 Pro

Now cannot see NDI Camera in OBS.

I cannot see any settings for setting up the NDI Camera ?

what am I missing ?

many thanks
 
markw said:
Hi All - Happy new year

I had the NDI plugin all working fine - had to work a few other things - now come back to complete setup and upgraded OBS to 29.0.0 on Mac M1 Pro

Now cannot see NDI Camera in OBS.

I cannot see any settings for setting up the NDI Camera ?

what am I missing ?

many thanks
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You're missing the posts above yours, where's described, how to install NDI on ARM-Macs
 
Is there a way I can connect my OBS to Easy worship for display of text (Bible and songs) using the NDI plugin and how can I go about it?
 
For those who are wondering. The OBS-NDI plugin that I am currently using is working on OBS 29.0.0 for me. That being said, the version of the OBS-NDI plugin I am using is the 5.0 version that was taken down. I am on a PC.
 
Hello, it would be very appreciated if you could fix the ndi runtime error on apple silicon. I can't figure out how to get your Plugin working with OBS 29 on a m1 pro.
 
Talonis said:
I recently re-installed OBS NDI on v. 29 as a test and it's working for me (Mac Silicon).

I plan to drop it at some point (and just use SRT) as it does feel like it will fail one day but for the moment it's a convenience for a singularly specific thing.
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Was this Intel version ? or Apple silicon version - what version of NDI and Runtime?
 
As it said in my post that you quoted, Mac Silicon (ARM 64).

Installation details already given by others in this thread,
 
Does this plugin take the incoming audio or the output audio (after the audio sync offset delay)? IOW, if I'm using 220ms sync offset to sync my video and audio in OBS, will this plugin output the synced audio (output) or the unsynced audio (input). Thanks for any info.
 
I use three machines to stream with NDI connections among them.

The one I'm having the most critical trouble with goes between the machine I integrate the stream with (overlays, my mike, the game I'm capping) and my encoder machine (generates H.264/AAC and packet-pushes to Twitch/YouTube/whatever).

I see a full second's worth of delay between the audio and video with the audio a full second behind the video. The only settings I'm tweaking are latency and sync. Using pretty much all the defaults for everything else. I also offload resizing to the encoder machine. I was originally streaming 1080P59.94 at my most recent place (had 35Mbps' worth of upstream available), but where I am now, I have to stream at 720p59.94 (upwards of 8mbps). Also, there's some stoppage at times, which has me a little concerned. In the meantime, I'm using Teleport between the stream integration machine and the encoder machine.

I still have to use NDI between the VTuber machine (runs VTube Studio and Remasuri3's Twitch Interactive Throwing System, and OBS to composite them together) as I need the alpha channel support. There are some issues here, but they're minor compared to the above.

Also, here are some other details:

OBS Studio 29.0.0
OBS NDI plugin, 4.10.1
NDI runtime 5.5.2.0

All of which runs under Windows 10 Pro release 21H2 64-bit on all systems.

Anything I should capture from my setup for diagnostic purposes or any change suggestions?

Also, is there any other information you may need?

Thanks in advance.

--Katt. =^.^=
 
Anyone know how to change the ip of the server? I have a stream server that has multiple nics and would like to have internal traffic from ndi on one nic and all other data on another nic. The networking side is working and setup to allow this just need to know how to change the websocket server ip address as its taking the main traffic nic and not the internal traffic nic. Thank you.
 
Haven't streamed in a year... now setting everything back up and I can't get my camera working.

BirdDog PF120 NDI-5.5.089
OBS 29.0.0 64-bit
OBS-NDI 4.10
NDI Runtime 5.5.2.0

Camera shows up perfectly fine in NDI Tools. Does not show up in OBS.
What am I missing here?
 
SigAddict said:
I see a lot of people complaining about this plugin having issues, but I don't have any issues at all on windows now that they have patched with the 4.10.1 plugin here https://github.com/DDRBoxman/obs-ndi/releases/tag/4.10.1 . Both of my windows PC's are connected via a netgear GSS108E.

All I did to install is install the latest NDI Tools 5.5.2.0 on both pc's from here https://www.ndi.tv/tools/#download-tools . I had whatever the lastest version of OBS 28 at the time on both PC's. Then I downloaded the zip version of the OBS NDI plugin which has two folders when you unzip. I placed the files in each of those folders in the appropriate folders in my OBS directories on both PC's and everything seems to be working. I don't get any stuttering or have any audio desync issues at all. I did a 5 hour stream on twitch to test (not a regular streamer at all) last weekend and as far as I can tell everything is as expected. You can view that here if you would like https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1701651203 . Maybe you can point out issues that I'm missing, but as far as I can tell it works?
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I just did this same exact setup and everything appears to work within OBS, but when it is actually streamed it was extremely choppy audio. It definitely doesn't work properly. Oddly enough, for the audio I can use vb-audio virtual cables to capture the output of the ndi video/audio in NDI Studio Monitor. I then use that NDI Monitor captured audio as an input and then it streams the audio without issue.

Not sure what the deal is with that, but it's working...for now anyways.
 
Those who have the problem with BROKEN AUDIO or Audio Crackling

Just dont use OBS 29 and NDI 5

Instead of that use OBS 27 + obs ndi 4.9.
 
Ghostbram said:
Those who have the problem with BROKEN AUDIO or Audio Crackling

Just dont use OBS 29 and NDI 5

Instead of that use OBS 27 + obs ndi 4.9.
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There was a link earlier in the thread to 4.10.1. It seems to have fixed the sound issues here, but my main issue is a sound offset from the video about a second behind the video when I stream an NDI-hosted scene (how I move a completed stream to an encoder machine).

The post is here.

GitHub link is here.

Hope this helps.

--Katt. =^.^=

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