So, the CPU/GPU impact on the PC would be the same using NDI camera resources as using local camera resources*?

- Tom


* - cameras physically connected to the PC running vMix 17 through a capture card or other physical device.

Any idea if NDI will support 10 gigabit networks?

Hi

We are back from our trip to ISE in Amsterdam and we did a little research regarding NDI. First of all we visited NEWTEK and they gave us a little insight of this new (and to my personal view groundbreaking) technology. We all here as vMix users can be very happy that Martin has implemented NDI to new vMix17. The demo at NEWTEK booth was very impressive, they showed interaction between different tricaster products on NDI basis. You can use all inputs and outputs within the same network no matter where the source is plugged in. And they showed in a split-screen that latency is very very low (you can hardly see any difference). Of course they only had to bridge a few metres in their booth but they promised that the latency behaviour does not change even when using longer distances in a network. Sounds very promising.

Unfortunately we were not able to find any hardware stuff like converters (HDMI / SDI to NDI) but this is not a big surprise. The NDI standard was launched in the end of 2015 and of course it takes some time to develop appropriate hardware. Maybe at NAB we will see some devices.

All capture card manufacturers we visited (Matrox, Blackmagic, Datapath, Yuan, AJA) are familiar with NDI and most of them told us that the engineers are working on integration of NDI standard. Only at Magewell booth they did not know what we were talking about but they promised to push their engineers, too. I believe that the engineers already know, the girls at the trade shows are just responsible for sales and not for technical questions.

NEWTEK also told us that most camera manufacturers (Canon, Sony, Panasonic) are in close contact with them to integrate NDI directly to their products.

As a summary we can say that NDI is on its way to the market. It will take a while until we have supporting products and devices but once they are available I believe it can change the market. Just my personal view (and hope).

Regards
Karsten

A few more NDI questions...

Any idea on how much CPU usage desktop capture via NDI will take? I typically ingest 4 laptops for corporate meetings via HDMI capture?

Will we be able to iso record any NDI inputs via Multicorder?

Will NDI processing happen only on the cpu or are there plans for GPU processing?

Thanks!

It's recommended / requiered to have 1gbps Local Area Network to use multiple NDI sources.

Maybe it was on Tom's Streaming Idiots show or somewhere else, that you need to add a 1gbps switch to your network, connect all the devices You want and you got it.

My question is: switch or router?

It's obvious that it's necessary to have a router in our LAN. BUT, does it need to be a 1gbps one? Or could it be (our old) 100 mbps router connected to 1gbps switch, then all of the devices connected to the switch and the speed will be the same as with 1 gbps router only? (or 1 gbps router + 1 gbps switcher)?

Any chance someone could make an HDMI - NDI converter out of a Rasberry Pi or something similar?

Really ??? :-)

http://www.auvidea.eu/index.php/theme-styles/2014-12-30-22-32-06/b100-hdmi-to-csi-2-bridge

Steve

So, now everyone has oportunity to touch the NDI :)

newtek.com/ndi

Update

B101 HDMI to CSI-2 bridge for Raspberry Pi

http://www.auvidea.eu/do...2015-12/news_2015-12.pdf

Ah just read up more on this, its not what I thought it was.. Thought it was a HDMI input card to replace the pi camera input.. Looks like this card is a HDMI to HDMI bridge.. HDMI into the card passes its video to the HDMI output of another pi on the same network.. Whilst still an interesting idea, really little more at this time than a HDMI over cat5 adapter..

A.