Screen Capture
Share Your Desktop Seamlessly.
NDI Screen Capture is an application designed to effortlessly share your Windows desktop video and audio with other devices on your network through an NDI stream. Whether you are conducting broadcasts and presentations, collaborating on projects, creating tutorials, or playing back media, Screen Capture provides a simple way to make your desktop available to other NDI-enabled applications and devices.
Starting NDI Screen Capture
Install NDI Tools and run NDI Screen Capture from the NDI launcher or your applications list. After you launch Screen Capture, it runs from the Windows system tray. You may not see a full application window open. To access Screen Capture settings, right-click the NDI Screen Capture icon in the system tray.
Once Screen Capture is running, your computer creates an NDI source from the Windows desktop. That source can be viewed by other NDI-enabled applications or devices on the same network. If you are not sure whether Screen Capture is working, test the source in NDI Studio Monitor before troubleshooting the receiving application.
Testing on Studio Monitor
On another Windows computer on the same network, open NDI Studio Monitor.
Right-click anywhere in the Studio Monitor window, then look for the Screen Capture source in the source list.
If the source appears in Studio Monitor, Screen Capture is sending an NDI stream.
If the source does not appear in Studio Monitor, first check whether Screen Capture is running, whether both devices are on the expected network, and whether firewall, NDI group, Access Manager, or discovery settings may be limiting source visibility
Viewing on NDI-Enabled Devices
View the output of Screen Capture on another NDI-enabled device using an application like Studio Monitor.
Right-click on the screen and select the device name and corresponding NDI stream.
Settings and Customization
Right-click on the NDI Screen Capture icon to access different settings:
Framerate This option allows to specify the NDI stream framerate.
Capture Settings With this setting, you can choose to capture the full screen or specify a particular area for capture (Region of Interest). Another option is to define the visibility of the mouse pointer.
Audio Source Specify a particular audio source to be embedded into the NDI stream created by NDI Screen Capture.
Webcam Video Source NDI Screen Capture enables the creation of an NDI stream using a webcam.
Webcam Audio Source Specify a particular audio source to be embedded into the NDI stream created by the webcam option.
KVM Control The KVM option in NDI Screen Capture allows for remote computer control over a network. When this feature is enabled, you can not only capture and send the computer's screen over the network using NDI but also remotely control the computer's keyboard and mouse inputs from another device.
Help Access the Screen Capture Help Assistant and a quick web link to ndi.video for more information about NDI and NDI Tools.
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