NDI Network Device Interface Setup

The Network Device Interface (NDI) is a powerful network video transport that allows simple, high quality video and audio signals to be transported across standard TCP/IP networks.  Drastic supports NDI in most of its products, including Net-X-Code Server, FlowCaster, videoQC, sdiScope, 4KScope, HDRScope, and NetXScope.  This article contains information on setting up to view NDI streams in Drastic software.

Using videoQC and Net-X-Code Server to view NDI Streams

videoQC is included in, and can be used to view NDI streams in Net-X-Code Server.

videoQC supports viewing NDI sources via the Open Stream menu, in the side bar menu.

 Clicking on it will bring up the Open url dialog box, which will display previous stream sources, as well as any other NDI source(s) detected on the network. 

After selecting your stream source, click OK to open it.

If no NDI sources are seen, please check the Settings window to confirm that Enable NDI Search is set.

Using sdiScope/4KScope/HDRScope/NetXScope to view NDI Streams

To use NDI in any or our waveform/vectorscope products, you can open the Config dialog, and use the Board pulldown menu to select NDI.

The Config dialog box is available from the Gear icon on the main interface:

Clicking on the gear icon will bring up the Config dialog.  Select NDI from the Board Type dropdown at the bottom of the dialog:

Once NDI is selected, you can select the NDI source using the IP Setup icon on the main interface.

This will bring up the NDI source selector dialog.

Please note, fully populating this dialog may take a few seconds while all the network NDI sources are found.

Once NDI has been selected as an input, you should also be able to click the IP Video Setup button at the top of the Config dialog to open the "Open URL" window.

Local Network

Keep in mind that when you are streaming with NDI any system on the "local network" can connect and view/record the stream.