This allows you to name the NDI source and search through a list of available NDI sources on your network. You can bring NDI video sources into OBS using the “ NDI Source ” option available in the sources menu. The nice thing about NDI is its ease of use when discovering video sources on your network. Once installed the plugin allows users to bring NDI audio and video sources into OBS and send NDI audio and video sources out of OBS.

NDI is royalty-free and the plugin that Palakis has developed uses the royalty-free software development kit (SDK) to add NDI functionality into OBS. NDI itself is not open source and therefore it can not be developed into the core OBS application. Over the past few years, Palakis has made regular updates and improvements to the plugin. As of 2022, shows the NDI plugin has been downloaded over 1.7 million times. The plugin was originally released in June of 2017 by a french developer named Stéphane Lepin with the user name Palakis. The NDI plugin is available for OBS Studio users on Mac, PC, and Linux computers. NDI was released in 2015, and it has since become one of the most popular IP video production connectivity options for professionals around the world.

NDI stands for Network Device Interface and it is an IP video production protocol originally developed by NewTek.

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