I have need to monitor NDI feeds on my network, and while these only have 100mbps connections, I should be able to use the low resolution mode which is under 100mbps. I needed this on Friday to keep me from running between buildings while doing some network changes.
Stuff like this makes me really desire an n100 based system with Windows, even an n5105 would work (barely).
I don’t know about OS limitations, but if the uConsole is connected over WiFi, the DL speed isn’t anywhere close to 100Mbps, closer to 20-40Mbps depending on antenna placement and router signal.
Not familiar with Dicaffeine (thanks for this, learned there’s now a Linux app for video streaming in this fashion) but I am very familiar with NDI. NDI Monitor throughput depends on the size/frame rate of the video. 25Mpbs being a ballpark for 1080/30p video, I wouldn’t trust it past one stream.
And even then, if possible, using Low Quality mode if it’s purely to monitor a stream and only one source at a time.
Broadcast or streaming – myself, I’d take Wi-Fi out of the equation and plug in Ethernet. Full Duplex and Constant Bit Rate always beats Wi-Fi. Dropping out isn’t worth the convenience.
Wifi=NO, maybe if I was running HX3, but I doubt the processor could handle it. People say that even 1080/60 won’t work well.
Because we are limited to 100mbps USB adapters, you pretty much need to force the low resolution “preview” stream, which is what I plan on doing. Just want to be able to see if the stream is present, and that a camera is pointed roughly the correct direction before a walk back to the other building.
I can say that it installed, and the app launches, but I didn’t have any sources up when I decided to fool with this. I’ll check it tomorrow to see if it works, and I really hope it does work. I skipped changing the audio to pulse, right now I don’t care about audio.
It did not find the one stream that I had running, had to pull out my laptop to check it. I’ll have to work on this more, it sure would be handy to have this function on the uConsole.
I also need to check my other cameras and see why they are not working, been too long since we used them and they probably forgot to be DHCP, the laptop did not see them either.
Not even finding the stream, resolution only matters when you connect to it, and the low res should be set to 640x360 for typical 16:9 sources and low bit rates to match. I’ll have to fiddle with it when I have time, will probably need to jump on the NDI forums and see if they can help find the part that isn’t working. I’m guessing it is a codec issue more than any other problem. But since it runs in the browser, I’ll check that first and make sure things are OK there.