I know how to Stream to YT and FB except I was wondering how do I stream in my house to other PC's, Media Players, ect?
I know I can create a custom RTMP Stream but from there I don't know how to distribute it.
Is there a way to stream from vMix into software that will distribute the stream on the same network possibly using the same PC?

Thanks everyone for your help.

Rich Shumaker

The only issue with NDI is that I would need a full PC for the NDI playback.
Or is there an NDI player like there is for Streams.
I can easily use Kodi on a Raspberry Pi for playback of the stream.
Not sure if I could use Chromecast or Roku as well but I doubt it.

So I will investigate a streaming server, thanks for the help.
I will update this when I have something going.
Any other suggestions greatly appreciated.

Rich Shumaker

Yes but this will require a player that can do NDI and I can't get that cheaply that I know of.
I can get a Raspberry Pi for $10 with wifi, $25 configured.

Does anyone know if there is an NDI protocol for Chromecast or Roku or any other streaming device?

Thanks.

Rich Shumaker

Yes but at a cost. I would need that 2nd computer(read below to see just how bad it gets). Thank you very much for suggesting it as now I know how to do a great confidence monitor in my studio setup. In fact I could see this being a low cost teleprompter as well. Linus on Linus Tech Tips did just have a $160 laptop that he said 'could possibly stream something maybe', heheh.

I already have several 'streaming' or 'streamable' devices around my house. I can use multiple tabs on my PC Chrome browser to stream my desktop to multiple Chromecasts, haven't gotten this to work yet. I have Raspberry Pi's running Kodi and I could grab the stream with those except I am not actually streaming to a "server". That is why I need to build a server using a RasPi with NGINX and the RTSP Add On. I am not a super tech so this is a bumpy road right now even after watching the videos. I have it part of the way there except it is the classic 'probably better to start from scratch' then to keep going situation.

The goal is to have a MovieFest where the movie plays in every room and outside of a 'big' house(10+ players and anyones phone). I live in a smaller house and I would still have to figure this out for each room and a PC in every room is just not possible. I do like the NDI option except for the per PC cost. With Raspberry Pi's that are wireless coming down to $10 and being able to put a really small OS on a small card with HDMI cables and a USB cable to the TV or a power supply the total is under $25 per set. ARM NDI does not exist that I know of as a player yet. That would be amazing to just NDI to all the sets around the house.

Thanks for your help with this it has helped me to 'rethink' it a bit.

Rich Shumaker

Great suggestion and I will check it out except not all of my TV's are TV's. Some are simply monitors.

I am also trying to stream everything to both avoid Coax all over and to learn more about streaming.

Thanks again for the help with this I really appreciate it.

Rich Shumaker

Thanks for the suggestion.
I did see Mistserver suggested before the only issue I had was that it is a paid software and I wasn't sure what they disabled in the free version.

I have NGINX installed just trying to figure out how to install the RTMP component for it.
It only takes a single line of code to install the server,

and to start it


I found the debian package in the RasPi repository for RTMP but it is not installing it when I try.
My guess is I need to add the repository location and that is where I am at on that front.
http://mirrordirector.ra...pbian/pool/main/n/nginx/

I will check out Mistserver right now and see how I fare with that.

Again thanks for the help with this I greatly appreciate it.

Rich Shumaker

Hi, you can use the Vmix camera output as an input in VLC and restream it to your network in RTSP.

Nimble, is a tiny fast streaming server. However it's design to be Cloud Managed via WMSPanel that writes the text config file for you. (You can write it by hand). Nimble is free.

As others here say, you could just set it up and then retain the config (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/34943258/how-to-set-up-nimble-server-without-wmspanel)

I use WMSPanel because I like the statistics and it's easy to manage a small army of powerful Nimble servers via a lovely web gui. Not to mention Nimble is just really good at what it does using minimal RAM and CPU.

Details on how Nimble Licensing Works: https://wmspanel.com/nimble/tco

I was able to stream to VLC and it was much less lag then using the web browser.
Using VLC - rtmp://<yourip>:<port>/play/<streamname> - about 5 seconds
Using Web Browser - http://<yourip>:<port>/<streamname>.html - about 20 seconds(Image Above)

NDI as you all know is much faster than both of these at under a frame of difference.
The NDI Monitor Tool is cool except it lacks controls unless I am missing something.

VLC NDI is an output only format from what I could tell.
Is there a way to use VLC and NDI to play video?

I was able to use VLC with vMix via capture(Image Above) and it was slightly slower than NDI, I am sure I could have tweaked this as it was set for the default settings.

Overall I have several new ways to play videos around the house and thanks to everyone for your help.
Let me know any other suggestions of things I might want to try.

Rich Shumaker

Rtmp on a LAN can get latency of about 1s. Maybe use ffmpeg to playback on a Pi it allows control of the buffers via the command line. My experience is with Nimble finely tuned you can get 0.6s via rtmp across the world.