NDI Bridge Service enables software developers and expert users to run a version of the NDI Bridge tool as an entirely headless Windows service in the background of their application via a REST API, additional documentation, and other configuration tools.

The powerful features of NDI Bridge are designed to extend NDI over wide-area networks (WAN), allowing individuals or teams from multiple locations to share, send, and receive high-quality, low-latency video, audio, and metadata streams across the globe — without compromising on the core features and benefits of NDI.

NDI Bridge service provides an alternative solution to integrate these WAN connectivity capabilities more seamlessly into the overall software experience.

Discover the full features and functionalities of the NDI Bridge tool here.

CORE FUNCTIONALITIES

  • An API will enable you to configure settings and control Bridge Service in the same way as the NDI Bridge Tool.
  • Includes an optional web interface with API documentation and other service configuration tools.
  • With support for SSL, you can confidently connect remotely with NDI Bridge Service beyond your local network, from anywhere in the world.

Explore the complete NDI Bridge service documentation here.

NDI Access Manager empowers you to manage NDI streams, devices, and networks effortlessly, ensuring smooth and efficient workflows while prioritizing security.

NDI Access Manager is a network management tool that enables you to efficiently organize your NDI channels into groups, control the availability of these groups on your device, and manage the distribution of your NDI channels. This facilitates monitoring the accessibility and determining the availability of NDI channels throughout your network.

CORE FUNCTIONALITIES

  • Set access permissions for individual NDI streams or groups of devices to ensure users only see the relevant sources they need.
  • Register and manage NDI sources from external subnets outside your local network. This allows seamless integration of remote sources by just using the source’s IP address.
  • Customize names of devices and groups for easy identification and organization.
  • Specify transport mode to fit custom network workflows. Available transport modes: Reliable UDP, UDP, Mult-TCP, and Single-TCP.
  • Set up a multicast range to help manage network traffic.
  • Use separate Discovery Servers in external computers to separate traffic when managing large networks.
  • Choose a dedicated network interface to send out NDI feeds.
  • Access rights can be defined on a per-device or per-user basis to safeguard sensitive streams and ensure that only authorized personnel have access to critical content.

USE CASES

Live Event Production

Event producers working with multiple cameras and media sources can organize and route NDI streams based on specific production needs, improving collaboration and reducing the risk of accidental misconfigurations.

Corporate and Enterprise Broadcasts

Large organizations leverage NDI Access Manager to control and efficiently distribute NDI sources across various departments. This ensures that internal broadcasts are exclusively accessible to authorized viewers and optimizes network bandwidth for peak performance.

Post-Production Environments

In post-production houses where editors and media specialists work with various NDI streams, NDI Access Manager ensures that each team member has access only to the media they need, reducing distractions and securing sensitive content.

NDI Remote offers a game-changing solution for seamless remote collaboration by simplifying the process of connecting participants through simple links.

NDI Remote is a tool that allows users to securely bring remote video sources directly into their NDI network. By generating a simple link, NDI Remote enables remote participants to join a production from anywhere using just a web browser and a camera. The video feed is then captured as an NDI source, which can be integrated into your live production, stream, or broadcast. 

 

This link-based access eliminates the need for special software or technical knowledge, making the process fast and user-friendly.

CORE FUNCTIONALITIES

  • Select, receive, and generate multichannel audio with extremely high quality and near zero latency.
  • NDI Remote works across most platforms and devices, whether your remote participants are using a desktop computer, laptop, or smartphone.
  • Talkback is now available, enabling remote NDI receivers to easily stream live audio back to the sender.
  • Camera selection and desktop sharing are available with NDI Screen Capture tool.
  • You can share an invitation through email. a unique QR code, or a unique URL.

USE CASES

Remote Interviews and Talk Shows

The production team can bring in guests from different locations for real-time interviews. The guests can join the show from their home or office using any device with a camera and browser. Their video feeds are integrated directly into the production, maintaining high video quality with low latency.

Education and Virtual Classrooms

A university professor hosting a virtual lecture can invite remote guest speakers or students to participate live via a simple browser link. Their video feeds are integrated into the classroom stream, facilitating live interaction and participation.

Remote Meetings and Professional Conferences

NDI Remote allows the meeting host to include presenters from different countries with no complex setup. Their video feeds can be integrated into the main production as high-quality NDI sources, enabling seamless presentations or panel discussions across different time zones.

Content Creation and Streaming

NDI Remote allows content creators to collaborate with remote colleagues or co-hosts on a live stream, integrating their video feeds directly into the production with high quality and low latency

NDI Router simplifies and streamlines the management of multiple NDI video sources, providing flexibility, ease, and precision in any NDI-based video production workflow.

NDI Router is a versatile tool that enables users to route and manage multiple sources across an NDI network. It acts as a virtual switcher, allowing you to create flexible signal routing configurations without relying on hardware-based routing systems. This tool creates virtual outputs, which are then used as sources for NDI receivers.

 

CORE FUNCTIONALITIES

  • NDI Router can manage up to 64 sources and 64 destinations.
  • Buttons can be given bespoke names and styles for easier navigation.
  • Users can preview the source assigned to any destination.
  • Preset buttons can be created and stored for quicker access.

USE CASES

Remote Event Production

The production team can bring in guests from different locations for real-time interviews. The guests can join the show from their home or office using any device with a camera and browser. Their video feeds are integrated directly into the production, maintaining high video quality with low latency.

Social Media Live Streaming

A content creator live streaming to multiple social media platforms can switch between different video sources, such as cameras, screen captures, and media clips, during the stream, ensuring  that the stream stays engaging, dynamic, and professional, helping to captivate the audience across platforms.

Multi-venue Productions

Organizations with multiple locations that need to route video feeds between venues for a coordinated live event can easily maintain a synchronized production regardless of physical distance.

NDI Test Patterns enables video professionals operating NDI-based setups and workflows to maintain consistency and precision across video networks.

NDI Test Patterns is a powerful diagnostic and calibration tool that operates in real-time. It generates a wide range of test patterns and audio tones, which can be sent across a network to evaluate and optimize the quality of NDI video streams. This real-time functionality allows users to test and calibrate NDI sources on the fly, ensuring that all video outputs are accurate, synchronized, and ready for live production, streaming, or remote collaboration.

CORE FUNCTIONALITIES

  • Explore a vast collection of test patterns, including color bars, individual colors, and IRE fields.
  • Create personalized test patterns with custom images.
  • Enable a one-kilohertz tone accompanying the NDI test pattern signal to test your audio equipment.

USE CASES

Live Production Troubleshooting

NDI Test Patterns helps the team remotely assess each video feed’s performance, ensuring that latency and signal integrity are within acceptable limits.

Equipment Calibration in Studios

Production studios setting up new cameras and video equipment can align and calibrate the video equipment, ensuring consistent color balance and video clarity across all NDI sources.

Content Creator Streaming Setup

NDI Test Patterns allows content creators to run tests before going live to validate that all NDI feeds function correctly and ensure the final output is smooth and professional.

NDI Studio Monitor allows you to see any available NDI channel in real-time, arrange multiple NDI channels for live monitoring, and deploy instances for a range of professional signage and display applications

NDI Studio Monitor is a tool that runs on any compatible laptop or workstation and provides a simple and powerful interface that enables users to monitor, manage, and control NDI sources from any location on their network, adjust settings, and control PTZ cameras, all in real-time and from a single, convenient platform.

 

CORE FUNCTIONALITIES

  • Integrated PTZ (pan-tilt-zoom) camera controls allow users to remotely adjust the position and zoom of any PTZ-enabled camera.
  • Flexible layout options enable monitoring multiple NDI sources at once: display one source in full screen or manage a grid of video feeds.
  • Adjust advanced video settings like alpha channel, positioning overlays, aspect ratios, streaming latency, and even routing.
  • Adjust audio settings and preferences like soundcard and output level.

USE CASES

Live Broadcast and Studio Productions

Broadcast studios can view and manage each camera angle, ensuring that the right shots are selected and displayed during the live production. With the ability to control PTZ cameras remotely, adjustments can be made on the fly without needing to physically access the cameras.

Corporate or Educational Settings

In a university streaming live lectures from various classrooms, NDI Studio Monitor allows the media team to view all classroom feeds simultaneously, adjust camera settings as needed, and ensure that the video quality remains consistent for remote viewers.

Surveillance and Security

Security teams can easily monitor multiple camera feeds in real-time, while having the ability to adjust camera positions remotely to focus on specific areas.

NDI Webcam Input is a versatile tool that converts any NDI video and audio signals in the network into a webcam source. This source can then be received and used by your main computer, opening a world of possibilities for your video content.

With NDI Webcam Input, NDI sources are recognized as standard Windows video and audio sources, making it possible for content creators and anyone using conferencing apps to elevate their video content without increasing the complexity of their setup. This is particularly beneficial for enhancing your video conferencing experience since users can bring graphics, virtual sets, and other visual enhancements to virtual meetings.

CORE FUNCTIONALITIES

  • Connect multiple cameras and video sources simultaneously to switch between different angles and perspectives.
  • NDI Webcam Input supports various output resolutions and frame rates to meet the requirements of different applications and platforms.
  • Adjust the volume levels for your webcam destination and select the grouping of channels if your NDI output has multiple channels.

USE CASES

Community Engagement and Town Hall Meetings

Corporate teams conducting regular video meetings can easily use the feed from high-definition NDI-enabled cameras through NDI Webcam Input, making meetings look more professional.

Online Education and Remote Teaching

Educators can provide students with an engaging online learning experience by streaming visual aids and switching between various sources.

Gaming and Esports Streaming

Gamers streaming on platforms like Twitch or YouTube can seamlessly connect their gaming console or high-quality cameras to switch between gameplay footage.

NDI Screen Capture makes it simple to stream, broadcast, or record your screen in real-time without additional hardware, offering a flexible and efficient solution for video production workflows.

NDI Screen Capture is a tool designed to effortlessly share your computer’s desktop video and audio with any other device on your network by transforming your computer’s screen into a high-quality NDI source. Anything happening on your screen — a presentation, a live demo, or a video call — can be instantly captured and broadcast as part of a larger production. Offering low-latency transmission, NDI Screen Capture is ideal for live and on-demand applications.

 

Additionally, NDI Screen Capture works seamlessly with NVIDIA GPU-based PCs to make your screen available as an NDI source on the network, eliminating the need for expensive video capture cards when sharing or streaming content from another computer.

CORE FUNCTIONALITIES

  • Specify the NDI stream framerate.
  • You can choose to capture your full screen or specify a particular area (region of interest) for capture.
  • Define the visibility of the mouse pointer.
  • Specify a particular audio source to embed into the NDI stream generated.
  • NDI Screen Capture also enables the creation of an NDI stream using a webcam, complete with a specified audio source.

USE CASES

Corporate Video Conferencing

Multiple participants can use NDI Screen Capture to share their screen as an NDI source, making it easy for the meeting facilitator to switch between participants’ screens and keep the meeting organized and professional.

Game Streaming

NDI Screen Capture eliminates the need for dual PC setups by turning the game on the streamer’s monitor into an NDI source. It can then be integrated seamlessly with other NDI feeds (like a camera) in streaming software to create a dynamic, professional-grade stream with minimal setup.

Software Demonstrations and Tutorials

Software companies hosting live streams to showcase new products can use NDI Screen Capture to capture the presenter’s screen as they navigate through the software, providing viewers with a clear, real-time view of the product in action.

Remote Learning and Virtual Classrooms

Tutors running a hybrid class can share their screens with students attending remotely to show slides, documents, and other educational materials in real-time.

NDI Bridge revolutionizes remote media production by eliminating traditional geographical limitations and facilitating seamless connectivity, collaboration, and content creation from any global location.

NDI Bridge is a powerful tool designed to extend NDI over wide-area networks (WAN), making it possible to connect NDI-enabled devices and infrastructures remotely. It essentially allows individuals or teams from multiple locations to share, send, and receive high-quality, low-latency video, audio, and metadata streams across the globe — without compromising on the core features and benefits of NDI.

CORE FUNCTIONALITIES

  • NDI Bridge supports all NDI features: video, alpha channel, multichannel audio, metadata, KVM support, and more.
  • NDI Bridge makes it easy to access the public IP port values that must be shared with clients wishing to join the Bridge.
  • The public IP address of at least one of the two locations is needed to establish the connection and one network port must translate from a public IP address to a local NDI Bridge IP address.
  • The default port used by NDI Bridge is 5990 but users can select their own.
  • NDI Bridge connections are secured using 256-bit encryption. An encryption key must be the same on all NDI Bridge endpoints.
  • NDI Bridge can use h.264 and HEVC compression. h.264 supports HD resolution with alpha channel and UHD without it. HEVC supports all reasonable resolutions with and without alpha.

MODES

NDI Bridge works in three different modes: 

1. Local Mode

Take all sources on your network or group and use NDI Bridge as a proxy. NDI Bridge intelligently processes and sends just the sources and streams that you need, making the most of your bandwidth. 

2. Join Mode

NDI Bridge uses a single port, is AES256 Bit encrypted and uses RUDP for transport. This allows you to easily connect two entire NDI networks over the WAN.

3. Host Mode

Using just one publicly available IP address as Host, any number of networks can connect and share sources; allowing teams of any size to connect from anywhere on the planet. 

USE CASES

Remote Broadcast and News Production

News crews and broadcasters can connect with remote reporters and stream live footage from different locations, making it easier than ever to provide real-time coverage of global events without relying on traditional satellite or microwave links.

 

Virtual Events and Conferences

Whether you’re organizing a global summit or a small-scale webinar, NDI Bridge allows presenters, panelists, and attendees to participate from any part of the world, delivering crystal-clear audio and video streams to viewers without lag or interruptions.

 

Content Creation for Social Media

YouTube creators, podcasters, and digital influencers can collaborate with team members or guests in other regions while maintaining broadcast-quality production. This flexibility enhances creativity and streamlines the content creation process.

 

NDI Audio Direct simplifies adding NDI audio to your workflows by bridging NDI audio streams with popular DAWs or audio interfaces, allowing seamless control and manipulation of multi-channel audio across your NDI-enabled devices.

NDI Audio Direct is a set of VST audio plugins designed to integrate NDI audio into software digital audio workstations (DAWs), video production tools, and other audio-centric applications. This allows users to route audio into and out of NDI workflows with ease. The plugins convert traditional audio signals to NDI streams and vice versa, ensuring that audio can flow seamlessly between devices on the network, regardless of location.

CORE FUNCTIONALITIES

  • Select, receive, and generate multichannel audio with extremely high quality and near zero latency.
  • Supports a variety of output options including 16 mono channels, 8 stereo channels, and 4 quad channels.
  • Provides both the input and output plugins with selectable level control, allowing users to better conform to the requirements of their studio software and systems.

USE CASES

Live Broadcasts and Events

Whether it’s a sports event or a live concert, NDI Audio Direct ensures that you can transmit and manage real-time, multi-channel audio across multiple devices without the need for physical cables or expensive hardware.

Podcast Production

NDI Audio Direct allows for seamless integration of audio between locations for podcast teams working remotely. Team members can collaborate on mixing and producing content in real time, regardless of their location.

Post-Production Audio Mixing

Audio engineers working in post-production can use NDI Audio Direct to route multi-channel audio into their DAWs, making it easier to work with complex audio configurations and ensure that the final mix is perfectly balanced.

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