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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DistroAV said:
No idea dude! Would love to understand why it says that.
The code is open source. Nothing nefarious in it.
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At the end of the day, using a computer from day to day is always a calculated risk.

Some people don't seem to understand that security is a process, not a product. You, the user, must make a judgment call as to whether you download or use a product, doing your due diligence as well as doing what you can to mitigate any risk (there is never any eliminating it; the only way to eliminate it is to stop using a computer).

As I had mentioned elsewhere, AV vendors tend to be quite arbitrary as to what constitutes "malware". It shows the key code to your installed copy of Windows? Malware. It sets up remote access to your computer, even if you knowingly installed it yourself? Again, malware. You set up TFTPD64 so you can save your Cisco/HPE/Aruba/whatever configs and update your assets's firmware? AGAIN, MALWARE!

In INFOSEC, there are no absolutes. Just because one or two of these say it's "malware" doesn't mean it actually is malware. It can help inform your decision, but it shouldn't be the only thing that does. Again, security is a process, not a product.

--Katt. =^.^=
 
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DistroAV said:
No idea dude! Would love to understand why it says that.
The code is open source. Nothing nefarious in it.
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Historically such 'false positives' have often been associated with using code components/libraries also used by malware (sometimes ad-ware has triggered similar warnings).
 
Lawrence_SoCal said:
Historically such 'false positives' have often been associated with using code components/libraries also used by malware (sometimes ad-ware has triggered similar warnings).
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Understood. Would love to know what components/libraries we are using that are being confused for malware.
 
DistroAV said:
Understood. Would love to know what components/libraries we are using that are being confused for malware.
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You've got two things that will be flagged automatically: InnoSetup, and Microsoft Visual C++. It's a mystery why the latter is being flagged, but Microsoft Windows Defender itself will even flag the official Redistributables installer when downloaded. It's a strange situation. As for InnoSetup, I found that the biggest problem is it installing a temporary binary into %TEMP%, then running that temporary binary.

Despite this being completely normal installer behavior, it is also something malware and viruses do, and thus you get flagged. Additionally any network connections made with an unsigned installer tend to also result in it being flagged. There's also some WinAPI functions and registry keys that - despite being part of something that happens automatically with no developer input - are being flagged too.

If these flags are set by any reputable AV/AM vendor, they usually tend to disappear after the first few false positive reports. For less reputable vendors, which tend to just copy what other AV/AM vendors do, they'll stick around for quite a while.
 
I’m excited to see what happens because at odd the morning NDI input source still doesn’t work without gitching during stream/record but!!!! I found a workaround just using the audio input source, adding a NDI webcam, then applying my audio source from my Mac to NDI webcam 1 on my PC and boom all was well when recording and streaming !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So happy now
 
I'm excited to see the new DistroAV release. Any idea on a timeline for release? Will it allow HDR content transfer over NDI?
Thank you so much for dedicating time to release this.
 
PenceFamilyGaming said:
I'm excited to see the new DistroAV release. Any idea on a timeline for release? Will it allow HDR content transfer over NDI?
Thank you so much for dedicating time to release this.
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Disclaimer: I don't do HDR. Notwithstanding my (not) doing HDR, I do not see any new controls over the previous "OBS-NDI" release, 4.14.1, HDR or otherwise. Just some relabeling (e.g. "use hardware acceleration" -> "request hardware acceleration"). Furthermore, to be fair, this is a pre-release build so as to make sure the major core changes don't make things shake apart. Though I don't know whether those settings would end up being OBS Studio- (notwithstanding NDI) or NDI-specific settings.

The kind of settings I'm looking forward to are HDX-related so I can send far less over the wire to my studio PC from my gaming PC (I still need the higher-bandwidth, non-HDX stream for my VTuber since I need alpha channel support) and/or from my studio PC to my encoder PC (the most likely link to get an HDX setup).

--Katt. =^.^=
 
ScrappeyDP said:
Is it possible to get this to work with NDI 6? Or do I have to continue to use the NDI 5 Runtime? If I can use it with 6 what steps need to be taken?
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I've been using it with NDI 6.0.1.0 (the latest release of the runtime as of this writing) with OBS-NDI 4.14.1 and testing with DistroAV's 6.0.0 prerelease build. Both seem to work fine here.

--Katt. =^.^=
 
I just installed this OBS-NDI 4.14.1 but when I add "NDI Source" it doesn't find any cam even if I'm on a call with 2 people on the schipe. I obviously activated NDI on Skype.

I have Windows 11
 
IDKY but sometimes you have to go to Access Manager in NDI Tools and add the cams ip address in the External Sources tab. I use Advanced IP Scanner to find the addresses of all sources
 

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Hello Everyone: I have already posted this in the general Windows section, but in case it can get more attention here, I am still looking for a solution to NDI devices not showing in the NDI Sources dropdown list.

OBS not finding NDI cameras

Hello Everyone: I run a church live stream, using OBS 30.2.3 on Windows 11, and I am having a problem where OBS is not finding 2 DataVideo PTC-140 PTZ NDI cameras. The cameras had been recognized and used in OBS, up until a recent upgrade to our internet service, which involved replacing the...
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Thanks. . .
 
DistroAV updated DistroAV - Network Audio/Video in OBS-Studio using NDI technology with a new update entry:

DistroAV 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​

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Read the rest of this update entry...
 
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