I am setting up a three camera system with PTZOptics NDI cameras. I've done this many times on a PC, but first time on a Mac. It is a MacBook Pro with I9 2.3Ghz processor. Big Sur 11.6. OBS 27.0.1 Cameras are visible in NDI Video Monitor, but when I go to add them as an NDI source, they are not showing up in the drop down menu. Has anyone faced this and overcame? Help needed.
NDI Cameras not showing up in OBS
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ScottKresge
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Mine are showing in the drop down, but the image is not coming in. I can see the image via NDI into zoom, so the cameras and the NDI are working, but the image is not in OBS. HELP?
Koen Willems
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I had this recently. It occured the cable between the switch and the pc was broken.
Urbanian
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I just posted my experience in another, not very active, thread. Similar experience. The PTZOptics camera shows up in the NDI Video Monitor application, but OBS's NDI Source doesn't see it. At the advice of PTZOptics I upgraded from Big Sur to Monterey; no improvement.
More detailed post here: https://obsproject.com/forum/threads/ptzoptics-camera-in-obs.150415/#post-551865
More detailed post here: https://obsproject.com/forum/threads/ptzoptics-camera-in-obs.150415/#post-551865
Urbanian
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And, possibly an issue: PTZOptics support finally realized that the firmware in our just-delivered 30x PTZOptics camera had old firmware that doesn't support (or at least supports badly) NDI 4, and the Mac NDI scene support needs NDI 4.
After updating to the latest firmware, the camera works fine in OBS.
Possibly significant, PTZOptics support had earlier said that Big Sur had some issues with discovery so I should update to Monterey. That update didn't help, but the firmware update did. I suspect just the camera update would have been sufficient if I'd stayed on Big Sur, but I'm not looking back.
After updating to the latest firmware, the camera works fine in OBS.
Possibly significant, PTZOptics support had earlier said that Big Sur had some issues with discovery so I should update to Monterey. That update didn't help, but the firmware update did. I suspect just the camera update would have been sufficient if I'd stayed on Big Sur, but I'm not looking back.