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HI there, I am having issues with my NDI not being broadcasted over the network and hence the laptop's NDI is not showing up in the desktop's OBS source. I have ran OBS in Admin mode, I have also made sure that OBS can run in Private and Public networks. None of them seem to work and I am not sure what is wrong. When I was following one of the tutorials on setting up NDI, it did work for a bit and I was able to see the name of my laptop's NDI on the desktop as I was selecting the NDI sources, however then it didn't work and was a blank screen, after I refreshed the source of the laptop was gone. I confirmed NDI is working as it is showing up on the laptop and I am able to view the image of it. In case you don't know what I mean by the source, I am talking about this: OBS-Athena does not show up on the desktop and the desktop's one does not show up on the laptops. Can you please help? Thanks, Eli

So i have been trying to reduce my performance hit that streaming has while playing games, and i don't want to spend money on a capture card. So i have tried the NDI plugin for OBS ,but i have problem when using NDI and streaming where my ping just tanks. With ndi off and me streaming normally its fine but with both going its very unuseable. So the question i have is there a way to use OBS NDI between my PC and my laptop? ( laptop is where i want to stream and PC where i am playing the game) I believe the problem is with maybe my router being over loaded or something, my PC is using ethernet and the laptop is using wifi. Any help is appreciated i haven't been able to find anything related to my question.

As MaximBady might say... "SOOOOOOO.... What is going on HERE?!" I hail from the old days of MS-DOS and 80x86 processors, DIP switches, IRQ juggling, and IDE-E. In those days, I was a whiz. Nowadays, not so much. Long story short, in 2018, I got interested in doing gameplay videos. I came into possession of a starter rig with a Ryzen 7-1700, 8GB RAM, a GT1030, and a 2 TB HDD. It did BeamNG.drive, GTA V, and American Truck Simulator quite well considering, until some building issues with BeamNG.drive got me thinking it might be time to upgrade. After much research, for $500, I got a 1TB WD Blue M.2 SSD, 32GB Crucial Ballistix RAM, and an Asus TUF Gaming GTX1650 Super 4GB OC. No flames, upgrading my 500W power supply wasn't an option and it's actually a good bang for the buck, loads better than the GT1030. Hiccups notwithstanding, after the cussing, fussing and dust cleared, my boot time dropped from 2:49 to 1:12 -- roughly 47% faster, and the machine ran quite a bit faster overall. Once I figured out a few things, my graphics were much, much better. However, the GTX1650, even being a Super, is pegged at 97%, and even OBS glitches a bit and appears to be cutting resolution to 33% recording from ATS. I had purchased a new 5900X in the hopes of gathering the pieces together to do another blitz upgrade, until MSI told me my 2018 model B450 would likely fry with the necessary BIOS update. This was already going to be expensive enough, now it appears I have to spend at least another $3000 to accomplish my objective, and it's not an option. Quite honestly, I'm fairly happy with my machine, I feel it delivers an awesome bang for the buck, and I simply can't justify $1500-$2200 for the RTX3060-3090 series. The RTX2060-2080 cards in the $600-$800 don't seem to be worth it over the 1650 either. And besides, LTT seems very big on turning some very unlikely candidates into surprise power players. Which is something I can definitely dig -- If I can make this work with my current gaming setup, I can tell people, "See? You don't need a 5900X or an RTX3090 to play this game well.." So then I recently discovered the trick of using EtherNet to mirror to a second machine for streaming. Why didn't I know this sooner? And here is where I start asking questions. Is this method also suitable for recording video for editing before upload? I've been told that 4 cores and 8 threads are necessary for this to work well. Not a problem, even that is cheaper than the alternative. However... I have a Lenovo M71E workstation that might be able to handle this, but with two shortcomings -- I believe it has either the i3-2100, or the i5-2500, which could be a little lacking on power. Unsure of RAM capacity, I believe it has 4-8GB. It is also a SFF workstation, and unlikely to accept a GPU. It also currently runs Ubuntu Linux, which would likely have to go. Also, it has been sitting for a long time in less than ideal conditions, thus I am not sure it is even operable. I have found some nice machines online for a great price with 6 core / 12 thread processing @ 2.9 Ghz, 8GB RAM with a 256GB SSD and, you guessed it, a GTX1650. While it seems this machine is capable of NDI recording with OBS, I want to be certain. Thoughts?

Hey Everyone, I need some help setting up an NDI from and Ipad pro 11 Wifi to my Lan PC. The software I'm using is NDI.TV and when I use the software it wont detect the iPad unless I also use a wifi adaptor (really cheap and weak signal one). I also tried to use the NDI access manger and manually entered the IP address but still nothing. I do have a google nest network set up around my house but I don't know if this will affect the detection? Does anyone know if I've missed a step?

I hope someone can finally help me here, And I would like to make my live streams over a VM in Unraid. Here, the VM should serve as a streaming PC, which only encodes the video signal. For this purpose, both computers are connected via a 10GBit line. This connection is for the video stream only. The video signal from OBS runs via NDI. Means, all scenes etc. are hosted in Obs on my gaming calculator and OBS sends the signal to my VM via NDI. For this purpose, I have created an extra subnet over the 10GBit line and this NDI also assigned via the Access Manager. In Unraid I have assigned one of the two 10Gbit ports of my emulex card an IP in the subnet and created a bridge for my VM. This bridge is also visible in the VM and can be passed. If I want to see the signal from my gaming calculator now in the VM, I see my sources, but no picture. Werder in NDI as well as in the Studio Monitor of NDI. Firewall is disabled on both computers and the GPU is also integrated into the VM. The streaming over NDI has also worked without Unraid. Only in the VM I get no picture. I hope someone can help me fix the problem.

Hi all! I'm interested to know if I could use an old motherboard I have lying around ( MSI z87 gd65 Gaming with i7 4770k and DDR3 ram) with a new Intel A380 GPU. The idea is to use it as a NAS with the capability of an OBS streaming server to Twitch / YouTube (I have a separate gaming PC) using NDI. I hear the Intel A380 has a great AV1 encoder. The old Mobo has a PCIE 3.0 x16 slot and the GPU uses a PCIE 4.0 x8 whatchcallit. Will there be a conversion and any loss in bandwidth? Thanks in advance.

I'm trying to record footage from my Mac to an smb network share on my Windows PC (the share points to a hard drive) directly using OBS. The resulting video is extremely choppy and I suspect it has to do with the transfer rate. My PC features 2.5Gb/s LAN and I tried 1Gb/s LAN as well as WiFi 6 on my Mac. For reference, I am trying to record really high quality footage (1440p, 120 FPS, 130Mb/s bitrate). Recording on my Mac's internal storage works perfectly fine, so is there some way to automatically transfer my video files over the network when they finish, or maybe use my internal drive as cache? Or record to the network drive using some other protocol? One more thing I should mention is that I'm using NDI. So the layout is basically an NDI stream from my gaming PC to my Mac, the Mac does the encoding, and I want to send the footage back to my gaming PC's large hard drive.

Turns out, it's far easier than I thought to completely overload a reasonably powerful computer with six cores and 16GB of RAM. All I had to do was: Two layers of 4K video mixing in Resolume Five instances of GPU texture sharing (Spout) One Art-Net stream Three simultaneous Unity render outputs (building a VR app) Bring the whole thing into OBS Send out two network video streams (NDI rocks) Open one YouTube video in Chrome easy peasy this is sarcasm

Hello... I just started streaming using OBS...I use a 2 PC method via OBS NDI...I have trouble in having the 2 PCs to connect together via LAN... sometimes it works but it will always take me around 30mins to troubleshoot... I have to reset network adapter several times..I use wifi sharing to my LAN in order to use OBS NDI..as so what i've been told on YouTube..please if any networking pros here can help me.. - My 2 PCs wont detect over LAN after shutdown for a long time. - Troubleshooter will tell me that Ethernet has not valid IP config Please help me..I do not know much in networking stuff...is there a way for my PC to connect with each other consistently? without resetting adapter and what not... Thank you so much...

Hi there, I wanted to try and move a little from YouTube and start live streaming on Twitch however I don't know what the best option would be. Here are the options I have available: Option 1: Two PC setup One for Gaming and the other for Encoding Has a Ryzen 5 1600X CPU for encoding Would have to use NDI to connect my gaming PC to streaming PC (Is NDI worth it? or is the quality rubbish?) Option 2: One PC setup Using NVENC encoder through an RTX 2070S My aim resolution for streaming is 720p at 60fps or 900p at 60fps. I play quite fast paced action games as well. Any solution or suggestions would be appreciated. Gaming PC Specs: i7-6800K RTX 2070S GTX 1060 6GB 16GB 3000MHz DDR4 RAM Secondary PC Specs: Ryzen 5 1600X GTX 760 16GB 3000MHz DDR4 RAM Cheers!

Dear Community, I am looking for a DP 1.4 capture card . (usb-c or DP connectors) most products seem to be stuck at DP 1.2a for some reason. i work in fulldome environments and am looking for ways to reach 4096x4096 at 60h,4:4:4 in live capture. (maybe more...) i can do it in 10GB NDI but would rather have a hardline as plan a , and NDI as plan B....for now. Thanks group !

I recently rewatched the LTT video on NDI using an intel system : I'm a small hobby streamer myself. I only really care about giving the best video and audio quality possible. I don't want to plug for views, I'm personally against shameless plugs so if you ask me what my channel is, I'm sorry but I won't be posting it. That being said, I currently use a two pc streaming setup. I'm running 2 Ryzen builds a 1600x for gaming and a 2400g for streaming using an elgato HD60S. I understand all the basics needs for the build but wanted to know if it's possible to do this with Threadripper, specifically Threadripper 2 when it comes out. I know not to assume that threadripper 2 will work out of the box but I'm one of those types that finds joy in the pain of troubleshooting for hours. I'm really interested in this as a downscaling project (and because I really want a threadripper build). Final note, I'm not an AMD Fan Boy. I enjoy using AMD currently cause I'm poor and can afford ryzen. I wanted a threadripper build since the 1950x first showed up on the main Techtubers. Plus it will be fun to try and make it work. I'm open to criticism and suggestions. I plan on keeping this an active thread and keep things updated. I'm still doing research on unraid as of this posting and could still use some help with this whole idea. I'd like to have a solid plan of action for when I get the money for the build and for threadripper release.

I recently got into 2 pc streaming. I found 1 method with obs ndi and the 2 pcs hooked up to the same network via ethernet. However, I have had some challenges in the way. *PC 2 had to be in a different room cause I dont have extra lengthy ethernets atm and the look of it in my apartment is already dreadful. (Solved this with synergy.) *Synergy randomly stopped working with pc 1. Even with uninstall and reinstall pc 1 just wouldnt share properly with the other pc in the other room. However, if I had pc 2 on wifi synergy would work as it should. (sharing from pc2) *I had previously wanted to share both pc with 1 internet connection, so I ordered crossover adapters and an pci-e ethernet adapter. This is where I'm stuck. With successful installation of the pci ethernet adapter on pc 2 I can't seem to get it to share internet access with the motherboard ethernet connection. I have the main connection going into the mobo ethernet, then I have the adapter going out to pc 1, the gaming pc. *crossover adapters are being used between the 2 pc *configured each connection between the 2 pcs with different ip address. I feel I'm missing some small steps here to make this work. Very annoying. So far I have the newly installed adapter on, "unknown network, no internet access." and the gaming pc is on, "private network, no internet access." I'm ready to give up on this, and just spend even more money on a switch but figured I'll give this place a shot and see if I already have what I need and I'm just not piecing it together correctly. How do I properly share the internet access so I can start troubleshooting synergy and getting both pc back on the internet?

Hey guys, i recently tried to setup a streaming computer. It is actually my old gaming pc and i thought i could use it for this purpose. The idea was to stream a 1080p 30fps stream from my and another pc to the streaming pc. On the streaming pc there are also two webcams connected at 720p. I use OBS with the OBS-NDI plugin on all three computers. Although they are connected via gigabit and not a single gpu, nor cpu nor ethernet card is exhausted. The NDI stream is stuttering every couple of seconds and sometimes the framerate drops to about 10 fps. Do you have any idea what could be the bottleneck here? The current bandwith of the streaming pc is around 30MB/s input. Specs: pc 1 i7 7700k;gtx1060(6gb); 16gb ddr4 pc 2 i5 8600k;gtx 1060(6gb); 16gb ddr4 streaming pc: i7 2770; gtx 950(2gb); 8gb ddr3 hyperthreading is enabled on pc 1 and streaming pc