NDI 5 tools

General
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Has anyone played around with ndi 5 with caspar yet? Does it work OK? Yet to try it just wondering if anyone has and run into any problems

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Yes, I got ndi test pattern output to casparcg 2.3 and casparcg ndi ouput to NDI monitor.

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I think the interesting thing would be to test CasparCG NDI OUT → NDI Bridge → Internet → NDI Bridge → Tricaster/vMix/Vectar/etc. Most curious if/how alpha works.
Havent yet tested that (trying to keep my vacation a “workfree zone”) but I will be back at work next week so then I will start to test.
I can post our results in to this topic so that it keeps in one place.

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Bridge is not out yet.

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has anyone tested this vmix solution for upgrading NDI4 to NDI5?

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Bridge right now just transcodes all NDI feeds to NDI HX, you then have to use access manager to expose it to any other network. I’ve used it together with a wireguard VPN and it worked well but definitely a very manual process of setting it up right now. Haven’t tried it with Alpha yet

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I can now confirm bridge will respect the Alpha channel

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Hiw do you do to get ndi out from casparcg.? Nice if anyone Will share config.

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This is a channel with a Decklink and an NDI out:

		<channel>
			<video-mode>1080i5000</video-mode>
			<straight-alpha-output>false</straight-alpha-output>
			<consumers>
				<decklink>
					<device>1</device>
					<embedded-audio>true</embedded-audio>
					<channel-layout>stereo</channel-layout>
					<latency>normal</latency>
					<keyer>external</keyer>
					<key-only>false</key-only>
					<buffer-depth>3</buffer-depth>
					<custom-allocator>true</custom-allocator>
				</decklink>
				<ndi>
					<name>CasparMain</name>
					<allow-fields>false</allow-fields>
				</ndi>
			</consumers>
		</channel>

If you don’t need the Decklink, just delete it. For the NDI <name> you can name it as you like. This will be displayed, when you select the NDI source in the other application.

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Output from server
Output from server972Ă—305 9.16 KB

Her is my config file:

1080p2500 CasparCG_1

Get error: Invalid consumer: ndi

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Which version of CasparCG server are you running? The built-in NDI support started with version 2.3.0

It is possible to add NDI output via iVGA to some previous versions. See the wiki, for example https://github.com/CasparCG/help/wiki/Server%3A-Configuration and several posts in this forum such as https://casparcgforum.org/t/how-to-setup-caspar-config-to-utilize-video-input/3473/2