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DistroAV (formerly OBS-NDI): NDI integration for OBS Studio
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Please document the requirement of avahi-daemon on Linux #557

Open DataBeaver opened 4 years ago

DataBeaver commented 4 years ago

I spent a couple hours figuring out why my attempts at setting up a two-PC streaming setup were not successful. Between two Linux PCs it worked out of the box but I couldn't get Linux to see any sources nor advertise itself as a source. Tcpdump and ss showed no mdns traffic or open mdns sockets. Eventually it dawned on me that the Linux version of libndi doesn't do mdns itself but instead relies on avahi-daemon, which I did not have installed. After installing it NDI immediately started working as it should.

tt2468 commented 4 years ago

What distro are you on? I'll add this, but I want to understand what OS's include it and what don't.

DataBeaver commented 4 years ago

A pretty customized installation of Debian unstable. I don't run any desktop environment (just Sawfish as WM) and use sysvinit instead of systemd.

Malex14 commented 1 year ago

On Archlinux it is also not installed or enabled by default. It would have saved a lot of time if there was a small notice to check avahi-deamon is running.