Ndi Vlc

With the introduction of the NewTek NDI Tools that include a VLC Plugin we now can leverage VLC to turn any of the content it can “play” into an available NDI™ Source on your network. NDI® (Network Device Interface) technology allows you to broadcast the audio and video streams from a Teams meeting to your local network. When using NewTek NDI® technology in a Teams meeting, you will have unique video steams on the network that can be used in your own production.

All the most important features of a live titling CG software added to the opportunity to add NDI® sources for creating your live Picture-in-Picture and all the DVE effects that you wish. Construct the whole program with this little genious of a masterpiece and enjoy working with it by using it with its NDI® output device or use one of the many SDI video output devices supported by ClassX Applications. LiveBoard Mini has a real-time graphics engine allowing excellent broadcast graphics quality. Try to believe.
LiveBoard Mini welcomes you with LiveBoard´s usual user-friendly interface: each setting is easily accessible. The time you need to get acquainted to LiveBoard Mini is micro; learning/training is not an issue. It´s a pleasure.
Manage your broadcast graphics on endless layers and create new layouts including audio or video clips and live graphics; there are no limits in the number of plugins that you can add.

LiveBoard Mini uses NDI® Technology in input and output

Up to 10 different LiveBoard Mini input channels can be assigned to as many different NDI® sources. Open the MultiView to manage them.



The Output Device can be set to NDI®, SDI or VGA and the output resolution goes from custom to ultra HD, interlaced or progressive.
Connect your Videos, Pictures, Ticker or the Text Plugins to external data sources; XML, RSS, CSV, TXT and URL DataSources are all included by default. The data don´t need to be stored locally; take them from anywhere from the local network or even the internet.
Apply your channel logo with a click. Create the smoothest crawls, any number of them, with different speeds and looks and information, in any language. Apply in/out animation effects on the Integrated Plugins, use the MediaPlayer with MarkIn/MarkOut and the FrameMarker Feature for some simple automations.
The NDI® Multiwiew panel in the LiveBoard Prefs allows you to assign up to 10 NDI® streams from your network to as many LiveBoard Mini Sources

Choose among LiveBoard Mini´s 15 integrated Plugins and enjoy...

  • endless layers of graphics
  • no limits on the numbers of Plugins
  • individual settings for each Plugin
  • adding animations and graphic attributes
LiveBoard Mini integrated Plugins
Clockanalogue clock (clock hands)
Digital Clockinserts a digital clock and/or date in any format
Imageinserts an image in any size and format, transparency is obviously supported
Karaokereads .kar files and audio files with embedded karaoke text
Timerinserts a timer that can be set to count forwards/backwards
Media Textinserts a text that can be typed in directly from LiveBoard Mini's interface
VideoInput Sourceinserts one of the 10 available VideoInput Sources (NDI®, VLC, Spout, Colorbars or DirecShow). The source can be freely resized, cropped and positioned. Set the sources in the VideoInputManager and overview them in LiveBoard Mini's Multiview panel.
Screen Capturecaptures the portion of one of the workstation's screens ad streams it onto an area that you define on your output
Shapeinserts any vector shape,you may adjust colour and transparency
SharedFramevirtual connector between all ClassX SharedFrame-enabled applications
Media Playerplays out any media in a myriad of supported formats and can set mark in/out plus FrameMarkers
Slide Showshows a playlist of images with transition effects
Text Showshows texts with transition effects
Tickercrawl for any any language, shows the files from a playlist. Can flow LTR, RTL or vertically.

Ndi Vlc Plugin For Mac

As the world of NDI™ continues to evolve we are sometimes left needing to fill in the temporary gaps in products and solutions that are currently under development… other times we are simply looking for an inexpensive option to fill a specific use case and that’s what I hope to introduce you to today.

Ndi Vlc

In case you’ve never heard of VLC, Video Lan Client, let me take a moment to introduce an wonderful swiss-army knife for the modern world of digital Audio Visual solutions. VLC is a free and open source application that allows you to view web streams, input cards, personal DVDs, local files and so much more.

With the introduction of the NewTek NDI Tools that include a VLC Plugin we now can leverage VLC to turn any of the content it can “play” into an available NDI™ Source on your network.

Getting Started…

  • Make sure you have downloaded and installed the latest version of VLC Media Player https://www.videolan.org/vlc/
  • Make sure you have downloaded and installed, making sure to check the VLC Plugin option, the latest NewTek NDI™ Tools. https://ndi.tv/tools/

Configuring VLC to create an NDI Source...

Now that everything we need is installed we need to setup VLC so it creates an NDI™ Source for your content.

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Launch the VLC application and navigate the top menu bar until you find the “Tools” drop down… click “Tools” and now locate the “Preferences” option to be greeted by the “Simple Preferences” window. (This can also be opened using the keyboard shortcut of Ctrl + P)

With the “Simple Preferences” window now open navigate to the “Video” section using the top menu bar.

Now move down to the “Output” drop-down menu and select the “NDI video output” option. Make sure to click the “Save” button to commit this as the VLC output method.

Make sure to restart VLC by fully exiting and re-opening the application… you’re now ready to begin turning content into NDI™ sources on your network.

Note: When you select “NDI video output” as your output option you will not see the content playing locally within VLC, as you may be used to, instead it is made available as an NDI source for viewing purposes.

Turning an RTSP Feed into an NDI source...

Everything from here forward is going to be pretty smooth sailing now that we have VLC configured to output an NDI™ Source on to the network.

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From the main VLC interface click on the “Media” drop down from the top menu bar and select “Open Network Stream.” (This can also be opened using the keyboard shortcut of Ctrl + N)

You should now be greeted by a window titled “Open Media” you simply need to enter the RTSP URL used to view the video feed from your IP Camera, or similar device, and click the “Play” button.

Example: If you are using a PTZOptics camera that has an IP address of 192.168.100.88 you would use one (1) of the following RTSP URLs depending on your desired resolution.

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  • HD Quality - rtsp://192.168.100.88:554/1
  • SD Quality - rtsp://192.168.100.88:554/2

Note: You may need to consult your manufacturers product documentation to determine your devices specific RTSP URL

VLC should display a black feed as it attempts to save precious processing power to turn your content into an NDI™ source on the network.

Now open NDI Studio Monitor, this comes free with the NDI Tools you’ve already installed, and either right click on the main video section or use the three bars stack in the top left to “see” available NDI™ Sources on your network.

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As long as you still have VLC open and running with the RTSP source you should see NDI™ Studio Monitor populate with the output from VLC, listed under your PCs name.

Once selected you should begin to see your content from VLC being displayed as an NDI™ source within NDI™ Studio Monitor.

Congratulations your content from VLC is now officially available as an NDI™ source on your network!

What can I do with this...

Now that you have turned your content into an NDI™ Source, using VLC, you can begin to easily add new content to your existing production workflows in OBS, vMix, TriCasters and more!

If you need to create more than one (1) NDI™ Source using VLC you can simply open a second instance of the VLC application to handle turning additional content into NDI™.

Note that additional instances of VLC will display their NDI Source Title a “VLC #” so as an example our first instance would simply be “VLC” and the second instance would display as “VLC 1”

VLC has so many options to play with and tutorial videos to support that it may be worth spending a little time to see what VLC can add to your next production!


Final notes: Because we are using VLC to convert content into an NDI™ Source we should expect there to be increased latency on any content being turned into NDI™ for use on your network... latency will vary depending on a number of factors from PC specs to network capabilities and more.


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