mcommendatore Posted July 6, 2018 Report Share Posted July 6, 2018 Hello anyone who can help, I have an iphone 6 with the Newtek NDI app installed connected via Wifi to a Linksys AC1900 router. This is the same router connecting the production and display computer. I can see the live feed in watchout on my production computer just fine, but for some reason I have not been able to see signal through the display. I downloaded and installed the latest Newtek software on both computers. The display computer also had difficulty seeing the signal in the NDI monitor app although I did see signal once briefly. Am I missing a setting on the display computer? I tried setting one of the inputs on the display computer to Newtek, but I don't see a reason that is helpful on the settings I made on the NDI input of the production computer. Thanks in advance 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erik Rönnqvist Posted July 6, 2018 Report Share Posted July 6, 2018 Most likely, you will have to install the NDI | HX driver, which is available for download on NewTek's web. The reason you are seeing the stream on the production computer is that the Watchout production software use a separate low-bandwidth stream for the preview, to preserve network bandwidth. The preview stream is usually not sent using the NDI | HX protocol. /Erik 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcommendatore Posted July 7, 2018 Author Report Share Posted July 7, 2018 That's great to know! I had already installed the NDI | HX driver and restarted the computer, but still got nothing. We left for the day and we tried it the next day it connected no problem. We did nothing different. The latest problem is trying to get the stutter/ drop frames which happens every few seconds. We figured it is probably due to being in large theatre and having a giant LED wall between the router and the iPhone. We put the router on a fly rail on the pipe end putting it in sight of the device and about 20ft from where it needs to work. It's better but still getting a stutter. Frame blending off, low latency set, connected to 5GHz, 1280 x 720, am i missing anything else to keep a smooth transmission? -Mike 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erik Rönnqvist Posted July 9, 2018 Report Share Posted July 9, 2018 Using the low-latency mode increases the risk of stuttering. By using this mode, Watchout will always display the latest frame received from the NDI source. By selecting balanced or smooth, Watchout will keep an internal queue of a few frames, which decreases the risk of stuttering, but also increases the latency somewhat. So if low latency is important in this case, balanced or smooth may not be the best options. Streaming video over Wifi in public places is problematic, since there are so many things that can disturb the stream. /Erik 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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