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Using OBS Teleport with NDI Tools vs Traditional OBS Workflow

One of the most popular tools for live streaming and video production is OBS (Open Broadcasting Software). However, when it comes to sending multiple sources from one computer to another, OBS can be limited. That's where NDI (Network Device Interface) tools come in. In this article, we'll explore how to use NDI tools with OBS Teleport and compare it to traditional OBS workflows.

Receiving NDI Feeds with OBS Teleport

OBS Teleport is a powerful tool that allows users to send multiple sources from one computer to another over the network. One of its most impressive features is its ability to receive NDI feeds, making it easier to set up complex live streaming setups. For example, when you add a new NDI source to OBS Teleport, you can see all the available sources, including screen captures, cameras, and bird dog Flex inputs. This makes it easy to manage your streams and switch between different sources.

OBS Teleport vs Traditional NDI Tools

When it comes to sending NDI feeds directly from one computer to another, traditional NDI tools are often preferred. The new Indi tools, for instance, offer lower bandwidth and easier management options, making them ideal for smaller-scale streaming setups. However, OBS Teleport has several advantages over traditional NDI tools. For one, it supports Mac and Linux, while traditional NDI tools only work on Windows.

Ease of Use and Setup

One of the biggest advantages of OBS Teleport is its ease of use. With OBS Teleport, you can set up a new stream in seconds, all you need to do is approve the little Windows Firewall prompt. This makes it an ideal choice for those who want to quickly start streaming without having to spend hours setting everything up.

OBS Teleport vs Traditional NDI Tools: Bandwidth Comparison

When it comes to bandwidth usage, OBS Teleport and traditional NDI tools have different characteristics. A 1080p60 canvas streamed over OBS Teleport uses about 250 megabits per second for a single source, while the same stream using traditional NDI tools uses around 140 megabits per second. However, when you add more sources to the stream, OBS Teleport's constant bit rate kicks in, making it more suitable for larger-scale streaming setups.

Advantages of Traditional NDI Tools

Despite its limitations, traditional NDI tools have some advantages over OBS Teleport. For one, they offer lower bandwidth and variable rate encoding, which can be beneficial for smaller-scale streaming setups or when dealing with low-bandwidth connections. Additionally, traditional NDI tools are more powerful than OBS Teleport in terms of features and capabilities.

Powerful Plugin: OBS Teleport

OBS Teleport is a powerful plugin that makes it easy to set up complex live streaming setups. It requires minimal clicks and works seamlessly, making it an ideal choice for those who want to quickly start streaming without having to spend hours setting everything up. With its ease of use and setup, OBS Teleport has become a popular tool among streamers and content creators.

Networking Infrastructure

One of the biggest limitations of OBS Teleport is its networking infrastructure requirements. To support multiple 1080p or 4K streams, you'll need to have a robust network with gigabit ports and possibly even 10-gigabit ports. Additionally, streaming over Wi-Fi can be unreliable, so it's essential to have a stable and fast internet connection.

Upcoming NDI Workflow Overhaul

The author is working on an upcoming NDI workflow overhaul that promises to be "amazing." This project has been months in the making, and fans of OBS Teleport and traditional NDI tools will get to see what new features and capabilities are coming. For now, check out this video for tips on how to create an epic music visualizer stream or this video for a capture card that can capture variable frame rates.

Conclusion

In conclusion, using OBS Teleport with NDI tools offers several advantages over traditional OBS workflows. With its ease of use, setup, and powerful plugin features, OBS Teleport is an ideal choice for those who want to quickly start streaming without having to spend hours setting everything up. However, traditional NDI tools still have their advantages, particularly when it comes to lower bandwidth and variable rate encoding.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enyou know it's pretty cool to be able to stream things on one PC but what if you have a bunch of PCS or at least two PCS running in your home or you're doing a dual PC gaming setup and you want to be able to show everything from all PCs For example I've got splitgate running back there and I can just flip to it or maybe we go visit my workbench and see how covered and in need of organization and cleaning up it is or perhaps we head over to the Retro corner to see PlayStation 2 running through a capture card pretty wild how is all this possible with instant transmission iOS Vox the stream professor and today we're talking about the teleport plugin for OBS Studio this is a relatively new plugin uh developed by fwat uh the latest update was actually only just about a week ago at the time of recording and this is a plug-in that is similar to IND if you've seen me talk about that which is a video broadcasting technology that allows you to send video over the network instead of using capture cards I've covered it before we're covering it more in depth in the future uh this is a plugin that's designed to kind of recreate that capability without using IND as far as I can tell it's just using normal kind of h264 encoding but it's pretty neat in that it works super simple doesn't have anywhere near some of the issues that people are going to have with ndi but it doesn't beat the newer ndi and we're going to talk about that if I just said Indi over and over and over and you haven't heard of it before and you want to know what's going on here just as a basic idea OBS teleport is a plugin that you install to OBS studio and then under Tools you now have a Teleport option and this allows you by just typing in a name for example main PC and checking teleport enable it will start encoding the feed that your OBS Windows sees and sending it out over your network so that your other computers can pick it up through the network in OBS you do have a quality slider which is just kind of like a basic encoding preset here and that is pretty much it and then you also install the plugin to your other computers so for example if we go here you download the zip file and then you extract it run teleport.to running on your network so for example you even get the IP addresses so I can see my workbench PC my test bench my retro streaming rig and now this main computer all together that I can choose from and that is as simple as it gets and so for example I have seen with all of those other ones added so here is the test bench running splitgate with the Elgato face cam if I jump in front of it here is the workbench and here is the Retro rig that is the PlayStation 2 running through the retrotink 2x Pro into a mage well capture card ready to go easy to access it does include audio I have it all it will just include the Final Mix audio that you would normally encode in OBS Studio I have it turned down or muted in most of these but I'll crank you get that sweet Dragonball music very nice I almost forgot to mention that there's a secondary feature just like the ndi plugin where you can actually add a filter to a specific source to send over OBS teleport which is really cool so for example I have my test pinch scene here with the face cam and the gameplay capture and the overlays and that's the full OBS output that I showed you in the tools menu but you also have the ability to add it as a filter so for example if I turn that off I can go in add a new teleport Source we'll call this FaceCam and I've added just that filter to the face cam itself so now we can have the ire camera going as a dedicated source and even though I have the source cropped in that you know Square format we get the entire widescreen source and you can see I'm still in progress of cleaning up the studio we are doing a full overhaul but you know here you go pretty freaking sick that you can do that so to add the filter of course find the source you want to add the filter to go to filters if it's a video capture device it'll be under audio video filters otherwise it'll just be in the bigger effects filters menu go to filter and then teleport there's also one just for the audio if you just want to send audio you can do that too which is pretty sick but otherwise you just go teleport call this teleport and then give it a name wide Cam and apply and it'll show up in the list which is really freaking cool that you have the ability to do that if you're going to go through the effort of having multiple PCS and a bunch of different sources in your stream then you want to make sure that you have top-notch visuals to go along with it today's sponsor nerder die helps make that easy but also really high quality nerded eye features top tier highquality stream overlays widgets alerts all sorts of other assets all fully customizable so that you can use just the parts you want and tweak them to your exact style the new flat pack pack for lack of a better word is perfect for that clean minimalist look with lots of cool shapes and textures meanwhile the stream OS pack inspired by setups like my own even featured in the video uh is great if you want some retro Vibes in your stream with four different themes within it as well as the ability to make your own all Nar die layouts come with one-click setup scripts for OBS stream elements and streamlabs and the after effects source files are an option as well save 15% at checkout with coupon code epos Vox or they have a spring streamer sale going on where you get 40% off certain layouts and 25% off sitewide so if you're watching during that time period use that instead all at the link below I don't normally make videos this simple but really that's all there is to it and that is the advantage it has over tools like ndi so Indi is from a company called new tech it came out quite a few years ago now I covered it back in my original OBS master class and it's a similar technology to allow you to V send video broadcast over your network to anywhere and now they have Indi Bridge so you can actually start sending it through the internet which we'll be covering soon I am in the process of moving my entire workflow to ndi so for example this camera you're watching right now is being sent in 4k over my network through ndi to my computer all of my cameras through the studio are being sent through IND it's really freaking cool super shouts out to bird dog for the hookup with that we'll talk about that more in the future however as amazing as IND is and we're going to take a look at the new Indi tools 5 real quick so IND just got a new update at the end of this past year for IND version 5 which includes a new suite of tools you can download and run which allows you to stream your screen your webcam capture cards all sorts of stuff including just your straight timeline from After Effects and Premiere although these aren't brand new features but regardless as well as VLC you can send all of this over the network super simple with these applications and they have the new ndi HX technology which is basically just h264 over ndi this is super important because previously with the base ndi it's kind of meant to be in almost a lossless format which means it's very high bit rate so for example a 1080p 60 frames per second video feed encoded with normal fat ndi ends up being about 300 to 400 megabits per second which if you're most people are using gigabit networking within their home that's a lot of data and if you're over Wireless it's not really feasible as an option that is a lot of data and once you add multiple sources it gets pretty chunky with ndi HX it compresses that into an h264 format that's still visually really really high quality but obviously a lot lower bit rate so you can fit a lot more through that the problem is the OBS plugin for ndi which was previously developed by pacus I believe uh it's basically been completely abandoned it hasn't received updates in quite some time and it does not support ndi HX or the newer ndi versions and so if you're comparing if you're trying to choose a tool for yourself I would frankly use OBS teleport over the ndi plugin for OBS Studio because OBS teleport absolutely beats that however if you have access to the ndi tools to send the HX feed and things like that with the lower bit rates you're going to have a much easier time with that on your sending in compared to OBS teleport now this sounds a little confusing so the ndi tool plugin for OBS Studio can receive those newer ndi feeds so for example most of what I'm doing is sending ndi 5 and I can actually show you that on screen here so if I add a new ndi source I have all of these sources which include screen captures cameras the bird dog Flex inputs all of those things I think that screen has turned off so it's not oh hey it is going to show you something that is my glitch art PC it's running super low R cuz the monitor turned off and disconnected at the moment but all of this is well not all of it but some of this is sending with the ndi HX you know format which is lower bandwidth and easier to manage for some of these settings and that the screen captures specifically are being sent using ndi 5 with the new tools with the screen capture tool I have all of my desktops outputting screens and any USB webcams over that program the ndi plugin here in OBS can receive that the ndii plugin and OBS cannot send that so if you're trying to send OBS to OBS OBS teleport is by far a better option if you're trying to if you have the capability of sending whatever you're trying to send with the ndi tools directly in Windows uh then the new Indi tools beat OBS teleport however OBS teleport supports Mac and Linux as well Indi tools do not work on Linux and I don't know if they're fully supported on Mac so OBS teleport has a lot of advantages here first and foremost just being that simple to use that I can literally just in seconds all you have to do is approve the little Windows Firewall prompt in seconds I can get it set up here and ready to rock it has a lot of advantages but there are obviously a ton of new features and capabilities and the lower bit rate of the newer Indi tools that kind of beat it out to put hard numbers to this a 1080p60 canvas streamed over OBS teleport will use about 250 megabits per second that's for a single Source now if I turn that FaceCam Source filter back on we are looking at about 520 530 megabits per second total usage so like I said we're looking at a lot of bandwidth but let's compare that to IND all right here I have added the 1080p60 canvas to an ndi output source using the OBS plugin for ndi not the ndi tools yet and we're looking at about 140 megabits per second but that's because there isn't a whole lot going on so the difference here is that OBS teleport will use a more constant bit rate and it will be higher when it's You know despite you know regardless of what's Happening whereas the ndi plugin is more of a variable rate encoder and so since there's mostly still action going on here it's kind of low so let me get some gameplay going real quick here actually you can see here during actual gameplay it's still 140 megabits per second so I'd say the N plugin is potentially still better that's impressive this is a really powerful plug-in that makes the capability of using dual PC streaming of you know a multi-room whole house stream uh dual person streams Esports you know tournament streams all sorts of things it makes them super easy and straightforward because it requires minimal clicks and it just works which is huge if you have the you know bandwidth for it if you're trying to do multiple PCS at a time all coming into one place and things like that you are going to need 10 GB networking in order for it to work now you can be in a situation where you have those Network switches which have mostly gigabit ports and then a few 10 gig ports and your receiving computer needs to be on 10 gig but the ones sending to it can be 1 gig that could work too but you know multiple 1080P or 4K or 1440p sources coming in is going to be a lot of bit rate and you're going to start dropping frames if you don't have the networking infrastructure for it and this isn't going to work super well over Wi-Fi but really powerful plugin super simple just wanted to show it to you cuz it is freaking awesome and I want to empower people to start using more Dynamic streaming setups now I mentioned I have my full you know ndi workflow overhaul coming soon stay tuned for that going to be amazing I am it has been months in the making otherwise check out this video right here if you want to learn how to make an epic music visualizer stream and this video over here on a capture card that can capture variable frame rates cuz there's some updates to that coming soon remember Be Kind Rewindyou know it's pretty cool to be able to stream things on one PC but what if you have a bunch of PCS or at least two PCS running in your home or you're doing a dual PC gaming setup and you want to be able to show everything from all PCs For example I've got splitgate running back there and I can just flip to it or maybe we go visit my workbench and see how covered and in need of organization and cleaning up it is or perhaps we head over to the Retro corner to see PlayStation 2 running through a capture card pretty wild how is all this possible with instant transmission iOS Vox the stream professor and today we're talking about the teleport plugin for OBS Studio this is a relatively new plugin uh developed by fwat uh the latest update was actually only just about a week ago at the time of recording and this is a plug-in that is similar to IND if you've seen me talk about that which is a video broadcasting technology that allows you to send video over the network instead of using capture cards I've covered it before we're covering it more in depth in the future uh this is a plugin that's designed to kind of recreate that capability without using IND as far as I can tell it's just using normal kind of h264 encoding but it's pretty neat in that it works super simple doesn't have anywhere near some of the issues that people are going to have with ndi but it doesn't beat the newer ndi and we're going to talk about that if I just said Indi over and over and over and you haven't heard of it before and you want to know what's going on here just as a basic idea OBS teleport is a plugin that you install to OBS studio and then under Tools you now have a Teleport option and this allows you by just typing in a name for example main PC and checking teleport enable it will start encoding the feed that your OBS Windows sees and sending it out over your network so that your other computers can pick it up through the network in OBS you do have a quality slider which is just kind of like a basic encoding preset here and that is pretty much it and then you also install the plugin to your other computers so for example if we go here you download the zip file and then you extract it run teleport.to running on your network so for example you even get the IP addresses so I can see my workbench PC my test bench my retro streaming rig and now this main computer all together that I can choose from and that is as simple as it gets and so for example I have seen with all of those other ones added so here is the test bench running splitgate with the Elgato face cam if I jump in front of it here is the workbench and here is the Retro rig that is the PlayStation 2 running through the retrotink 2x Pro into a mage well capture card ready to go easy to access it does include audio I have it all it will just include the Final Mix audio that you would normally encode in OBS Studio I have it turned down or muted in most of these but I'll crank you get that sweet Dragonball music very nice I almost forgot to mention that there's a secondary feature just like the ndi plugin where you can actually add a filter to a specific source to send over OBS teleport which is really cool so for example I have my test pinch scene here with the face cam and the gameplay capture and the overlays and that's the full OBS output that I showed you in the tools menu but you also have the ability to add it as a filter so for example if I turn that off I can go in add a new teleport Source we'll call this FaceCam and I've added just that filter to the face cam itself so now we can have the ire camera going as a dedicated source and even though I have the source cropped in that you know Square format we get the entire widescreen source and you can see I'm still in progress of cleaning up the studio we are doing a full overhaul but you know here you go pretty freaking sick that you can do that so to add the filter of course find the source you want to add the filter to go to filters if it's a video capture device it'll be under audio video filters otherwise it'll just be in the bigger effects filters menu go to filter and then teleport there's also one just for the audio if you just want to send audio you can do that too which is pretty sick but otherwise you just go teleport call this teleport and then give it a name wide Cam and apply and it'll show up in the list which is really freaking cool that you have the ability to do that if you're going to go through the effort of having multiple PCS and a bunch of different sources in your stream then you want to make sure that you have top-notch visuals to go along with it today's sponsor nerder die helps make that easy but also really high quality nerded eye features top tier highquality stream overlays widgets alerts all sorts of other assets all fully customizable so that you can use just the parts you want and tweak them to your exact style the new flat pack pack for lack of a better word is perfect for that clean minimalist look with lots of cool shapes and textures meanwhile the stream OS pack inspired by setups like my own even featured in the video uh is great if you want some retro Vibes in your stream with four different themes within it as well as the ability to make your own all Nar die layouts come with one-click setup scripts for OBS stream elements and streamlabs and the after effects source files are an option as well save 15% at checkout with coupon code epos Vox or they have a spring streamer sale going on where you get 40% off certain layouts and 25% off sitewide so if you're watching during that time period use that instead all at the link below I don't normally make videos this simple but really that's all there is to it and that is the advantage it has over tools like ndi so Indi is from a company called new tech it came out quite a few years ago now I covered it back in my original OBS master class and it's a similar technology to allow you to V send video broadcast over your network to anywhere and now they have Indi Bridge so you can actually start sending it through the internet which we'll be covering soon I am in the process of moving my entire workflow to ndi so for example this camera you're watching right now is being sent in 4k over my network through ndi to my computer all of my cameras through the studio are being sent through IND it's really freaking cool super shouts out to bird dog for the hookup with that we'll talk about that more in the future however as amazing as IND is and we're going to take a look at the new Indi tools 5 real quick so IND just got a new update at the end of this past year for IND version 5 which includes a new suite of tools you can download and run which allows you to stream your screen your webcam capture cards all sorts of stuff including just your straight timeline from After Effects and Premiere although these aren't brand new features but regardless as well as VLC you can send all of this over the network super simple with these applications and they have the new ndi HX technology which is basically just h264 over ndi this is super important because previously with the base ndi it's kind of meant to be in almost a lossless format which means it's very high bit rate so for example a 1080p 60 frames per second video feed encoded with normal fat ndi ends up being about 300 to 400 megabits per second which if you're most people are using gigabit networking within their home that's a lot of data and if you're over Wireless it's not really feasible as an option that is a lot of data and once you add multiple sources it gets pretty chunky with ndi HX it compresses that into an h264 format that's still visually really really high quality but obviously a lot lower bit rate so you can fit a lot more through that the problem is the OBS plugin for ndi which was previously developed by pacus I believe uh it's basically been completely abandoned it hasn't received updates in quite some time and it does not support ndi HX or the newer ndi versions and so if you're comparing if you're trying to choose a tool for yourself I would frankly use OBS teleport over the ndi plugin for OBS Studio because OBS teleport absolutely beats that however if you have access to the ndi tools to send the HX feed and things like that with the lower bit rates you're going to have a much easier time with that on your sending in compared to OBS teleport now this sounds a little confusing so the ndi tool plugin for OBS Studio can receive those newer ndi feeds so for example most of what I'm doing is sending ndi 5 and I can actually show you that on screen here so if I add a new ndi source I have all of these sources which include screen captures cameras the bird dog Flex inputs all of those things I think that screen has turned off so it's not oh hey it is going to show you something that is my glitch art PC it's running super low R cuz the monitor turned off and disconnected at the moment but all of this is well not all of it but some of this is sending with the ndi HX you know format which is lower bandwidth and easier to manage for some of these settings and that the screen captures specifically are being sent using ndi 5 with the new tools with the screen capture tool I have all of my desktops outputting screens and any USB webcams over that program the ndi plugin here in OBS can receive that the ndii plugin and OBS cannot send that so if you're trying to send OBS to OBS OBS teleport is by far a better option if you're trying to if you have the capability of sending whatever you're trying to send with the ndi tools directly in Windows uh then the new Indi tools beat OBS teleport however OBS teleport supports Mac and Linux as well Indi tools do not work on Linux and I don't know if they're fully supported on Mac so OBS teleport has a lot of advantages here first and foremost just being that simple to use that I can literally just in seconds all you have to do is approve the little Windows Firewall prompt in seconds I can get it set up here and ready to rock it has a lot of advantages but there are obviously a ton of new features and capabilities and the lower bit rate of the newer Indi tools that kind of beat it out to put hard numbers to this a 1080p60 canvas streamed over OBS teleport will use about 250 megabits per second that's for a single Source now if I turn that FaceCam Source filter back on we are looking at about 520 530 megabits per second total usage so like I said we're looking at a lot of bandwidth but let's compare that to IND all right here I have added the 1080p60 canvas to an ndi output source using the OBS plugin for ndi not the ndi tools yet and we're looking at about 140 megabits per second but that's because there isn't a whole lot going on so the difference here is that OBS teleport will use a more constant bit rate and it will be higher when it's You know despite you know regardless of what's Happening whereas the ndi plugin is more of a variable rate encoder and so since there's mostly still action going on here it's kind of low so let me get some gameplay going real quick here actually you can see here during actual gameplay it's still 140 megabits per second so I'd say the N plugin is potentially still better that's impressive this is a really powerful plug-in that makes the capability of using dual PC streaming of you know a multi-room whole house stream uh dual person streams Esports you know tournament streams all sorts of things it makes them super easy and straightforward because it requires minimal clicks and it just works which is huge if you have the you know bandwidth for it if you're trying to do multiple PCS at a time all coming into one place and things like that you are going to need 10 GB networking in order for it to work now you can be in a situation where you have those Network switches which have mostly gigabit ports and then a few 10 gig ports and your receiving computer needs to be on 10 gig but the ones sending to it can be 1 gig that could work too but you know multiple 1080P or 4K or 1440p sources coming in is going to be a lot of bit rate and you're going to start dropping frames if you don't have the networking infrastructure for it and this isn't going to work super well over Wi-Fi but really powerful plugin super simple just wanted to show it to you cuz it is freaking awesome and I want to empower people to start using more Dynamic streaming setups now I mentioned I have my full you know ndi workflow overhaul coming soon stay tuned for that going to be amazing I am it has been months in the making otherwise check out this video right here if you want to learn how to make an epic music visualizer stream and this video over here on a capture card that can capture variable frame rates cuz there's some updates to that coming soon remember Be Kind Rewind\n"