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sunkast  
#1 Posted : Saturday, April 7, 2018 7:33:34 PM(UTC)
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Just read on this Skype blog that a new version for content creators will be released that includes the ability to place and record calls with support for NDI.

Has anyone played around with the preview version yet?
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#2 Posted : Sunday, April 8, 2018 12:40:49 AM(UTC)
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With Skype for Content Creators, Windows 10 and Mac users will be able to select the Content Creators mode to place and record calls directly within NDI®–enabled software such as:

Wirecast
Xsplit
Vmix

Read Article here for Skype for Content Creators
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#3 Posted : Sunday, April 8, 2018 1:26:11 AM(UTC)
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It certainly looks interesting, since Microsoft explicitly include vMix in their Skype blog post. I shall head to their booth at NAB at some point and take a look.
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#4 Posted : Sunday, April 8, 2018 1:26:56 PM(UTC)
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Find out a few things if you can...

1. Will each caller be their own NDI feed? For multi-user calls? Or just one NDI feed (most likely).
2. Will it TAKE NDI as a camera & audio input.

Those are my biggest questions.
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#5 Posted : Sunday, April 8, 2018 3:07:12 PM(UTC)
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The biggest question that I would have would have to do with mix-minus audio.
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#6 Posted : Sunday, April 8, 2018 3:59:35 PM(UTC)
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Hello Everyone,

I am interested if desktop share and app share will be included,
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Considering this is a new special version of Skype I would assume they would include all if the essential bells and whistles — and a way to deal with audio.

Great to see that vMix was included as an example — so someone at Skype is paying attention to what’s needed via NDI for programs like vMix.

Hopefully Skype will do it right — out of the box.

Roeby
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#7 Posted : Monday, April 9, 2018 10:30:49 AM(UTC)
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jvphobic wrote:
Find out a few things if you can...

1. Will each caller be their own NDI feed? For multi-user calls? Or just one NDI feed (most likely).
2. Will it TAKE NDI as a camera & audio input.

Those are my biggest questions.



>>> 2. Will it TAKE NDI as a camera & audio input.

Apparently not, at least not in the first release.

Of course in Windows NewTek has a free tool for emulating a webcam in the NDI v3.5 tools so this probably isn't such a problem.

On Mac, it leaves a bit of a hole, although some NDI based tools like mimoLive can emulate a webcam



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#8 Posted : Tuesday, April 10, 2018 9:57:16 PM(UTC)
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jvphobic wrote:
Find out a few things if you can...

1. Will each caller be their own NDI feed? For multi-user calls? Or just one NDI feed (most likely).
2. Will it TAKE NDI as a camera & audio input.

Those are my biggest questions.

1) Yes, as far as I can tell from a short chat on a noisy NAB booth, and without actually seeing a demo of any NDI connections, I believe an NDI source will be created for each caller, containing their video and audio.
2) As already mentioned, no, it does not (currently) accept an NDI feed as a local input.
By implication, that also means it does not create mix-minus audio feeds to send to the caller(s).

There should be a beta out in the next couple of months (probably), use of which will provide more accurate answers as to what it can and can't do, with regard to NDI.
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#9 Posted : Friday, April 13, 2018 9:33:12 AM(UTC)
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does this basically mean we have an ndi bridge across networks now, so we don't have to just use it for a call with someone? or is not quite that level??
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#10 Posted : Friday, April 13, 2018 11:24:43 AM(UTC)
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Barney Box Lane wrote:
does this basically mean we have an ndi bridge across networks now, so we don't have to just use it for a call with someone? or is not quite that level??

No, it just means you can get an NDI output generated on your local PC, containing a clean feed of the incoming skype caller's video+audio, re-en-coded as an NDI source. So instead of having to screen-grab the skype display window, or capture the HDMI output of a graphics card in order to use the incoming video, you can get it into vMix as a NDI source. Skype itself still works in exactly the same way as before over the WAN.
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