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August 16, 2018 by Kane Peterson and Chuck Baker
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Sometimes a production needs additional media available and perhaps playing full time and in a loop. Having a Windows system set up with VLC Media Player, Kane Peterson’s VLC SyncPlay app for VLC Media Player, and the NewTek NDI® Tools Pack, available by free download, can fulfill this need.
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The above is the recommended order for acquiring and installing these applications on the system.
VLC SyncPlay is simply an app and does not have an installer. The app allows you to select one or more clips, and assign them to be played in VLC Player to an NDI output stream. You unZip the archive, and place the app anywhere you choose for convenient use. In the video, Kane places the app on the Desktop screen.
VLC Media Player is the most popular, powerful and flexible open source free cross-platform media player. The NewTek NDI Tools Pack is a free set of tools that provide video production workflow support that engages NDI, NewTek’s royalty free bi-directional IP technology for transport of video, audio, metadata and communications over standard networks. NDI is by far the leading IP technology for media transport for video production, deployed in hundreds of products in the hands of millions of users. For both of these toolsets, simply run the installer and follow instructions to complete the installation.
Once the moving parts are all in place, operation is easy.
- Open a folder with one or more videos in it.
- Select the videos that you wish to play.
- Drag and drop the selected videos onto the VLC SyncPlay icon.
That’s it. Each of the videos will be opened and played in a continuous loop in an instance of VLC Media player. Any NDI-aware device or application on the same network will be able to see and use the NDI streams as input.
Next Kane demonstrates how to use these NDI streams in TriCaster. He clicks on the Settings gear for an Input, and on the Source pulldown, the system playing the videos is now visible. When the system is highlighted, the videos being played by VLC Media Player are available to assign to the TriCaster input. Kane assigns one to the input.
Kane steps through assigning the other two NDI streams to inputs, and then we see all three playing in the assigned inputs, and ready to use in the production. As Kane notes, even more possibilities are available for adding a system equipped with VLC Media Player to a NewTek production system workflow - VLC Media Player offers some control options that NewTek systems can use via their macro command system. Examples are provided in the VLC Media Player documentation.
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An example use case is suggested by the fact that NewTek’s All-IP live production systems TriCaster TC1 and NewTek VMC1 include the capability for multiple simultaneous outputs of different content. For a tradeshow or other events where there are multiple displays and a live production also in progress, the production system could easily play out multiple video sources such as described here to full-time displays in the booth, all while switching a live presentation and simultaneously sending that to other displays in the booth or elsewhere in the venue, and streaming to the internet as well.
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My Microsoft Teams Tenant is partipating in closed preview program of NDI Integration of Skype TX with Microsoft Teams (announced at Microsoft BUILD Conference 2020). You need to enable it in the Teams Desktop Clients under „Permissions“ and also allow it in Teams Meeting Policy (Teams Admin Center). NDI is disabled by default. Roll out starts Mid-August and ends Mid-September 2020. So you might need to wait or enable it in the meeting policies section of your Teams Admin center and also in the Teams Client
Mio product key. After using it and talking in Live Streams about it I want to share my favorite use cases (so far, please share yours in the comments) with you :
Add external guests using Skype to Teams Live Events
Everybody is already using Teams, so why adding Skype?
Well, not really. My preferred usage scenario is to live stream events not only with out-of-the-box streaming capabilities of Microsoft Teams, I use 3rd party tools a lot to influence the look and feel and overlay of the stream. Skype can be used easily now, it integrates well – if you use Skype Consumer Preview (not mobile) and enable NDI in advanced settings. Video Quality can be significantly higher than in a Teams meeting. Find more about Skype TX, Studio-grade hardware solutions from Microsoft for Professionals here.
Do you have issues with sizing of Skype in OBS? Check out this fix.
Side note: I also want to test how to add a Zoom Call into a M365 Live Event but current integration has expired end of May, so need to wait for NDI support which is part of Zoom`s roadmap.
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Use OBS as 3rd party tool to stream Live Events
As mentioned above, I am not really satisfied that I can`t change look and feel of my stream when using default Microsoft Teams Live Events. So my preferred choice is for internal Corporate Streaming purpose: OBS Studio and stream to Yammer or to Stream. It offers me lots of possibilities in fine tuning video and audio by adding filters and effects (like moving and rotating video, adding noise reduction, increase bass+trebles and delimiter audio filters to prevent distortions)
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Getting different video and audio channels for saving and post production
Especially when using OBS I can do more than just stream live on air, I can save my video with many configuration options and edit video and audio in post-processing. Easy to create a podcast based on the video material in higher quality than just using MP4 from Teams Meeting and convert to MP3.
Separating NDI Streams depending on your mode and activity
- You are going to get for each invididual meeting participant and user, incoming audio for a meeting is mixed together and will be the same for all individual user streams.
- „Large gallery“ and „Together mode“ modes will have their own NDI stream available.
- incoming screen sharing will be available as an NDI stream.
- New stream will be generated which automatically switches to whoever is actively speaking
Sending slides and Audio / Video clips to Streaming PC
I like OBS but this friend is CPU hungry. So you might consider – if people can help you when streaming – to add a dedicated streaming PC to your setup. Then you can use the presenter Laptop/PC/Mac to send slides via NDI to this PC, same for Audio and Video clips you prepared earlier. You remember VLC Player? It can be used to stream these clips and slides inside your LAN. Just choose VLC in OBS as a source but you need to download NDI Tools as well which adds a VLC NDI Plugin
Adding IP NDI streaming cam
Haven`t purchased one, cams like PTZOptics or Newtec – with in-build NDI support – usually start at 1000 EUR. I am currently fine with my setting: Jabra Panacast (now Microsoft Teams certified!) and Sony Alpha 6400.
Adding wireless camera like iPhone or Android
This is crazy easy and free to implement: Just use OBS.Ninja which generates a QR code and URL. Then your mobile can be added to your OBS stream (Source: Browser, just add OBS.Ninja custom URL). Group Chats or remote screensharing is also very helpful.
(It is not using NDI technology but it was too good not share)
Stream your Microsoft Teams Live Event from your mobile
Check out Darrell Webster`s Video for further explantions, the video is excellent and use case is self explaining
Monitor audio inside your LAN
You want to increase audio quality of all sources before sending it our for streaming? Use these NDI capabilities to edit audio in an additional steps. Quality Assurance is key. In our church live streams (weekly) we monitor audio with a headphone before sending it to OBS (Mixer sound) and also control it by watching and listening to live stream. Lot of changes are needed within 60 minutes church service to adjust different voice volumes when using microphones for singing and lecturing.
Additional virtual audio cables are also needed if you want to integrate Zoom conferences into your stream.
Use NDI Tools as your primary camera in your Microsoft Teams Meetings
Run Newtek NDI Virtual Input and right click on it in your tray and set it’s output to your computer name.
Next steps
Check out new documentation by Microsoft here and here to turn on NDI using PowerShell
Let`s go and stream more! Which streaming activities do you plan for next weeks? Which experiences have you made with NDI? More use cases which I haven`t mentioned? Please share in the comments below or at Twitter
Further readings:
- NDI Tools Documentation