Creating NDI Streams

A variety of tools from NewTek, downloadable at https://ndi.tv/tools/, are available to create and monitor NDI streams. The tools package is available for Windows and Mac.

Inside the tools package is a Test Pattern program that will publish an NDI stream with various test patterns on the network. These test patterns are 1 FPS so they are not so useful for testing realistic video workflows, but the Test Pattern program is useful for verifying that mDNS is working on the network and on the Linux host where the Broadcaster is installed.

Below is a description of some of the tools that can be installed as part of the tools package.