Hi! I am really hoping someone will be able to help me in this. I am trying to get the NDI plugin installed on our Mac and it keeps coming up with "The installation failed." Message. I have tried everything I can think of but I am also not very knowledgeable about Macs. PLEASE PLEASE if someone on here can help I would really appreciate it.
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Ndi plugin will not install.
- Thread starter gc3pastor
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Not familiar enough with this project to tell if this may be related: https://github.com/DistroAV/DistroAV/issues/314
I was able to workaround this problem by manually installing (and later running) the obs-ndi plugin v4.13.2 (which was the latest, haven't tried a newer version yet) on a new M2 Mac mini, using the following commands in Terminal:
pkgutil --expand /Users/YOUR_USER_DIR/Downloads/obs-ndi-4.13.2-macos-universal.pkg tmp
cd tmp/obs-ndi.pkg/Payload
cat Payload | gunzip -dc | cpio -i
sudo cp -R Library/Application\ Support/obs-studio/plugins/obs-ndi.plugin ~/Library/Application\ Support/obs-studio/plugins
I ran into the same issue installing DistroAV 6.1.1 on macOS
The problem was that the OBS plugins folder was owned by root, so the installer couldn’t write to it.
You can check with:
If it shows root staff:
Fix with this command:
It looks like the .pkg installer doesn’t request admin permissions, so it can’t fix the folder ownership automatically.
You can read thru here https://www.coremicro.com/blogs/support/fix-distroav-installation-failed-macos-obs-ndi-plugin
The problem was that the OBS plugins folder was owned by root, so the installer couldn’t write to it.
You can check with:
ls -ld ~/Library/Application\ Support/obs-studio/plugins
If it shows root staff:
drwxr-xr-x 3 root staff 96 Jun 12 2024 /Users/yourname/Library/Application Support/obs-studio/plugins
Fix with this command:
After changing the folder ownership, I ran the installer again and it completed successfully.sudo chown -R $(whoami) ~/Library/Application\ Support/obs-studio/plugins
It looks like the .pkg installer doesn’t request admin permissions, so it can’t fix the folder ownership automatically.
You can read thru here https://www.coremicro.com/blogs/support/fix-distroav-installation-failed-macos-obs-ndi-plugin