Network Communication

[ThomasLengeling]

Hi

I got the addon to work for Linux and OSX!!, and it works great when the receiver and the sender are running on the same local computer. I will make a push request soon with the new updates. I made a simple transfer test from Linux to Mac on a local ad-hoc wifi network, the transfer communication seems to be slow between them, and It's probably due to the poor network communication from the ad-hoc network. I know that this is probably out the scope of the issue. But do you have any recommendations to improve the wireless network communication? Such as a setting up a better local network or getting decent router ?. I just want to transfer the source in a local network. Many thanks for the help.

[leadedge]

Linux and OSX! That's excellent news. As you will have seen on the other issue thread I intend to remove resources to simplify the whole thing, so it's a good time to include modifications.

I really can't offer any recommendations for improving network performance. It might be something you could ask on the NDI forum -

http://forums.newtek.com/forumdisplay.php?360-NDI-(Network-Device-Interface).

Or maybe some hints here -

https://github.com/CESNET/UltraGrid/wiki/OS-Setup-UltraGrid

[Harvey3141]

Good work on Linux and OSX

In my experience

• A wired ethernet connection with a gigabit switch will give the best performance possible. In this case we've been able to send a 8000x1000 feed with decent framerate, there was some noticeable latency though ~500ms
• Wifi is a bit temperamental, a good router will help as will a good wifi card.

If I remember correctly there are some hints on improving performance included with the NDI SDK documentation.