Grabs video at very high quality and bitrate, with very minimal compression to minimize any latency/lag and ensure a very high-quality feed. So what’s the difference between the two? ![]() Recently, Newtek released another app as part of the NDI Tools, called ‘Screen Capture HX’. I would recommend still installing the NDI Tools on both PC’s though, as the NDI Tools have another utility called ‘Studio Monitor’, which can be useful for viewing NDI feeds on your network as well as troubleshooting them. vMix / Streamlabs OBS / Tricaster / Wirecast / XSplit / Livestream Studio:ĭue to licensing, OBS doesn’t have NDI built in, (which is why the obs-ndi plugin is needed) but all of the software listed above does, so you only need install the Newtek NDI Tools on your Game PC / Source PC, and that signal should be seen automatically when adding a NDI source in any of the streaming software listed above. If you see black instead, move the mouse on the gaming pc for a moment and it should then show the video on the Stream / OBS pc.Īt this point you should be set, and can treat that source the way you usually would any other video/capture card source in OBS. Once you select your source and hit ‘OK’, you should see the video feed from your Gaming PC on the screen and be good to go. If you’re running multiple monitors on your Gaming PC, you may see more than one entry here, select whichever one shows the desktop you’re looking for. (See below for an example) Click it, and in the properties box select the ‘Source name’ drop down and you should see your Gaming PC listed and the name of its video card next to it. You should see “NDI Source” as an option in that menu. Select the scene you’re going to add the video feed to, and add a new source. Then right-click the icon again, and this time go to ‘Audio Source’ and make sure it’s set to ‘System Audio’.Īt this point, your Gaming PC should be sending its NDI signal out on the network and you’re set to bring it into OBS on your Streaming PC. Right-click on it, go to ‘Frame rate’, and set it to 60fps, like in the image below. Once you’ve opened it, you should see a blue ‘NDI’ icon in the system tray. (We’ll talk about Screen Capture HX later on in the guide.) Feel free to make a shortcut to it on your desktop or taskbar if you’d like, but for now just go ahead and open it. ![]() You’ll see 2 versions of it – ‘Screen Capture’, and ‘Screen Capture HX’, the one we want is just ‘Screen Capture’. The app is in the Newtek NDI Tools folder, or you can open the start menu and just start typing ‘Screen Capture’ and it should find it. This is the program that will send your Gaming PC’s video over to your stream pc. ![]() Once your Gaming PC / Source PC has restarted and you are logged in, search for the program called ‘NDI Screen Capture’ in your start menu. (This is important – You wouldn’t believe the number of times someone’s come to me for NDI help when a new install wasn’t working and they just hadn’t restarted yet so the system could recognize/load it.) Once the NDI Tools have been installed on both PCs, and the OBS-NDI Plugin is installed on the Stream PC, go ahead and restart both PCs. Then, download and install the latest release of the OBS-NDI plugin installer from HERE on your OBS / Stream PC. Without further ado, let’s get started! Setup:įirst, download the latest NDI Tools from ndi.tv/tools on both the stream pc AND the game pc, and install on both machines. This guide can also be used to send NDI signals between one pc and another pc running something besides OBS, such as vMix, Wirecast, a Tricaster, Streamlabs OBS, and others, which will be discussed toward the end. ![]() (This is critical, as Full NDI uses a lot of bandwidth to send video from one PC to another with almost zero latency/lag/delay.) This guide works under the assumption you have a dual pc (one gaming pc, one stream pc) setup that is using OBS to stream, and that both PCs are on a wired gigabit ethernet network. You’re probably here because you recently learned that there’s a way to capture video from one pc and send it to another without having to purchase a capture card, via a magic little tool called ‘NDI’.
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