At first glance it looks that way, but reading the press release in detail reveals this is just using the h264 IP stream on the Panasonic
and plugging it into NDI Connect Pro on a PC or Laptop to convert it to NDI.

You could skip that step entirely by adding the IP stream directly to vMix using Add Input -> Stream which we have tested with the AW-HE40
(And also use the built in NDI conversion in vMix to use it also as an NDI source elsewhere!)

Regards,

Martin
vMix

"bridged" as in using NDI Connect to bridge all of their products into the NDI world!

Wonder if JVC and Panasonic are supplying a Connect Pro license with the cameras.

If not, then anything is NDI compatible, just buy a Tricaster to connect it to!

- Tom

Tom, no need for a C/Pro license ! You could grab the h264 stream with VLC, then feed it to Vmix using the VLC NDI plugin.

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You might be correct, when NDI was first released a no. Of capture cards were deemed NDI compatible... BMD, magewell were a couple, of course what that transpires to is they can be seen by connect pro. Which is needed to create the NDI stream.

I think maybe the panny release is saying "NDI compatable" ie it can be seen by connect pro. Seeing Connect pro as "NDI" but at the same time, connect pro "isn't NDI" "we" however read NDI compatible to be direct NDI IP output from the device. Used by plugging into a simple router and distrubuted over the network.( no PC required) It depends on your take of "NDI compatible".... compatible, ie works with.

I'm not against it, and think NDI is a great solution and thank newtek for both creating it and releasing it as an open standard, it has already helped me do the things I never could before, and will prob. do more as time passes with the things I have not thought of yet. Mmaybe some companies see this as a creditable shift in video capture / routing and are being a little free with their current compatibility claims.

NEW. AElli release.... Logitech webcam c920 now NDI compatible.

* C920 output must be captured with VLC and output using VLC NDI plugin 😀

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I thought the c920s were usb3 👎
Just shows i shouldn't always trust a blue USB plug.

Yes, i agree. I think that's the point well made,
A manufacturer should reference NDI compatible as NDI output from product, not via ancillary add-ons.

Im not sure the pannys are USB connected, I believe it's h264 in via network rj45 then bridged to NDI for distribution back out over same connection.

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If anyone knows an answer,

I'm interested to know if a connect pro licence will enable me to grab & stream more than one feed. ie in the example above the bluefish cards run 4 video inputs. Will connect pro allow me to grab all four feeds as seperate source streams or is it one licence, one feed/stream ? and how many grabs before it maxes out ie if I had 2 decklink quad2 cards installed could I have 16 captures, outputting 16 seperate NDI source streams under one licence?

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16 NDI feeds from a single computer seems ambitious. Remember that a single 1080p stream requires around 100 mbps. If they were HD feeds that many would likely saturate a single gigabit NIC.

You can run one instance of Connect Pro on a system, trying to run a second instance tell you that Connect Pro is already running.
Each install of Connect Pro needs its own license key.
Connect Pro can support up to 4 feeds using supported capture cards, like a BMD, Magewell or Matrox quad input cards, those ones are that NDI compatible. ;)

While I understand the idea of building one big powerful system to do it all, the idea with Connect Pro was to use a smaller less powerful system to handle the inputs. Realize that an input might be used by multiple applications (a switcher, NDI monitor and NDI IsoRecorder for example), so with 4 inputs you shouldn't have issues getting that all to work on a gigabit network, even if some of the inputs are used more than just 1 to 1. Trying to do things like link aggregation or VMs is going to make something that should be simple, complex.

On next week's Streaming Idiots I am announcing a new NDI App that we have been developing called NDI Leash. Using this cutting edge tech/app I will connect my Jack Russell Terrier and he will be "NDI Compatible." Take a drink.