NewTek’s Network Device Interface (NDI) technology for IP video got another boost this week with the announcement of version 3.0, designed to improve the protocol’s performance with PTZ cameras on low-bandwidth networks.
The expansion of the protocol adds multicast with forward error correction, a new “high-efficiency” mode for full-resolution video called NDI HX, standardized PTZ camera control and tally, and improved encoding performance, NewTek said.
NewTek underscored the NDI v3 announcement with the introduction of a PTZ camera specifically designed to work with NDI HX. The NDI protocol allows video, audio, tally, camera control, and power all to be carried over one Ethernet cable…[continue reading]