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NDI Discovery pull the stream black screen

NDI Discovery pull the stream black screen

by luo weiqiang - Number of replies: 1

I installed the NDI Discovery Server, and the server was able to discover the connected devices without any issues. Yet, when attempting to pull the NDI stream (from the server/connected devices), the stream only shows a black screen, making it impossible to view the actual video content.

In reply to luo weiqiang

Re: NDI Discovery pull the stream black screen

by Kane Peterson -
Discovery and Transmission are different processes in making NDI work, so what you are describing is very possible.

I'm guessing that all of the NDI devices are contained on the same LAN. Likely you have a firewall blocking traffic. If these are Windows systems, make sure the network type in Windows is set to Private (not public). If you are using a 3rd party firewall, trying to disable it and see if that gets it working. If it does, then you need to open up in the firewall to let the NDI traffic through.

Here are ports used by NDI.
https://docs.ndi.video/all/developing-with-ndi/sdk/port-numbers