NDI Router

This is a work in progress to create an NDI router. The basic idea is a fixed amount of outputs is created that can be used by NDI receivers. This software can then route sources on the netowkr into one of those fixed outputs. Much like a physical hardware video router.

To help in the ease of control rather than ship with a custom UI this has been built this to use the same protocol used by blackmagic to control their hardware based video routers. You can download a copy of Videohub control from Black Magic.

This is written in in rust so the following commands can be used to compile and run. It will require the NDI libs to be somewhere on the PATH.

cargo build
cargo run

Usage

The plan will be to use the Blackmagic videohub ethernet protocol as a way of setting routes. The format of the protocol is text commands over TCP. The attached documentation lists the protocol spec (pg 77).

The server can be accessed at 127.0.0.1:9990.

TODO

• Fetch NDI sources on network
• Create TCP server to control
• Using NDI routing API to foreward sources
• Make compatible with BMD videohub spec
• Handle Multiple clients
• Handle output locking