AV Research

BirdDog NDI Encoders and OBS Studio

I discuss some of the pitfalls and shortcomings of BirdDog 4K and Mini NDI encoders in relation to OBS Studio.

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Saving a Protected PDF from a Webpage

This is mostly a note for my own use. I was recently sent a link to a special website containing documents related to the bankruptcy proceedings of a certain company. I thought "this document seems like something I should keep a copy of" and of course logging in to said website is a pain. The...

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Creating a cheap live streaming and switching system

This is a very wordy, rushed and technical post. I wrote most of this around 6 months ago and, in response to people asking about the contents of this post I have revisited it now before I forget everything. Some examples may not work, some Linux kernels give problems, it's a minefield. That said, I...

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OBS and NDI – Gotchas

On the face of it, NDI and OBS look like a marriage made in heaven, but don't be fooled, there are a boat-load of dragons. Scenario: Intel i7 8th gen-based laptop with Nvidia Quadro 1000 GPUThunderbolt 3-based 10 GbE interface running at 5GbE (gbic overheats at 10 GbE)The latest OBS but running a customised obs-ndi...

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