NDI Administrative Settings

In NDI, administrative settings can be used to limit the rights of almost all NDI tools and also enable NDI settings to be specified by a system administrator without any ability for a user to override them. Here is an overview of these settings and how a system administrator can set them to configure specific machine settings.

The NDI configuration settings are documented in the Advanced SDK documentation, and we refer to that to get the full description of each setting.

If any registry key value is missing, it will use the global configuration file on the system, which NDI Access Manager normally configures.

Registry Key (all under HKLM)	Registry Value	Type	Description
SOFTWARE/NDI	MachineName	String	A replacement for the local machine name.
SOFTWARE/NDI/Networks	Discovery Service	String	One or more discovery servers to use. Comma-separated.
SOFTWARE/NDI/Networks	IPs	String	Comma-separated list of additional NDI Source Ips.
SOFTWARE\NDI\Adapters	Allowed	String	Comma-separated list of local NIC IP addresses that NDI will attempt to use.
SOFTWARE\NDI\Groups	Receive	String	Comma-separated list of NDI groups that any sources discovered (finder and receiver) will be within.
SOFTWARE\NDI\Multicast\Send	Mode	DWORD	1 when Multicast sending is enabled.
SOFTWARE\NDI\Multicast\Send	NetPrefix	String	The prefix for the IP address range that will be used.
SOFTWARE\NDI\Multicast\Send	NetMask	String	The network mask for multicast sending.
SOFTWARE\NDI\Multicast\Send	TTL	DWORD	The network for multicast sending.
SOFTWARE\NDI\Multicast\Receive	Mode	DWORD	1 when multicast receiving is enabled.
SOFTWARE\NDI\Unicast\Send	Mode	DWORD	1 when sending over mode is enabled
SOFTWARE\NDI\Unicast\Receive	Mode	DWORD	1 when receiving over UDP mode is enabled.
SOFTWARE\NDI\TCP\Send	Mode	DWORD	1 when sending over Multi- is enabled.
SOFTWARE\NDI\TCP\Receive	Mode	DWORD	1 when receiving over Multi-TCP is enabled.
SOFTWARE\NDI\RUDP\Send	Mode	DWORD	1 when sending over Reliable UDP is enabled.
SOFTWARE\NDI\RUDP\Receive	Mode	DWORD	1 when receiving over Reliable UDP is enabled.

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Tools Settings

All NDI Tools settings are stored under the registry location HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\NDI\Pemissions and are of type DWORD. When set to 1, they indicate that a feature is allowed, and when they are set to 0, that feature is disallowed.

Key name	Description
app.studiomonitor	Is Studio Monitor allowed to be run on this machine
app.studiomonitor.web	Is the web server within studio monitor allowed to be run on this
app.webcamera	Is the webcam tool allowed to be run on this machine?
app.scanconverterhx	Is Screen Capture HX allowed to be run on this machine.
app.scanconverter	Is Screen capture allowed to be run on this machine.
app.scanconverter.kvm	Is the KVM functionality of Screen Capture allowed to be run on this machine.
app.remote	Is NDI remote allowed to be run on this machine?
app.remote.incoming	Are incoming NDI remote connections allowed on this machine, when this is disabled, the machine can only provide links that others can connect to.
app.vlc.video	Is VLC video output enabled on this machine?
app.vlc.audio	Is VLC audio output enabled on this machine?
app.testpatterns	May the test pattern tool be run on this machine?
app.bridge	Is NDI bridge allowed to be run on this machine?
app.accessmanager	Can Access Manager be run on this machine?
app.adobecc.transmit	Can the NDI output plugin be used with Adobe CC
app.adobecc.fileio	Can the NDI file IO plugin be used with Adobe CC
app.vst3	Can NDI Audio Direct be used on this machine?