Aaron Parecki

🔴 Live Q&A! Answering your questions about livestreaming gear!

October 19, 2025

Questions

(4:47) Hello From Up River from Portland Milwakie OR

(6:50) InPlaneSight gifted 10 Aaron Parecki memberships

(7:29) At the way @InPlaneSight is going @Aaron Parecki is going to need a longer outro song

(7:40) recommend a free bonding solution

(8:33) that's the plan 😜 lol

(10:25) A free service does not really exist because it costs to operate

(10:41) what about a virtual pc plan that comes with say 2tb a month of data? would that work for bonding?

(14:53) Proxmox is awesome

(14:56) i use proxmox and it crazy powerful

(14:58) what did you move from to proxmox?

(16:04) Hi on your RODECaster NDI video you're mentioned using a Blackmagic Dongle to export NDI HX.

(16:08) Can you please specify the model and the setup to make it work

(23:53) You're online, all good. Thank you for the answer. So my question is how to stream NDI HX from a windows PC using OBS or vMix. Any tips would be highly appreciated

(26:06) We use obs in church to play video using obs decklink out. Person needs to just put a file into a folder on the computer and make that scene live. No need to deal wit hyperdeck formats, etc

(26:18) Q I know you don't use a PC, but any idea how much CPU or GPU power that Ultrastudio uses?

(26:59) Hi, the Osee Gostream Duet 8 Iso can be used for CCTV or hace a litle latency ?

(27:30) I used NDI Virtual Input app on my laptop and OBS can see this virtual input as camera.

(27:38) Appreciate the anwer @Aaron Parecki thank you.

(27:41) Work calling so gotta jet. Have a great rest of the show!

(27:51) Q: Are you concerned about writing wear on consumer nvme SSDs? Enterprise/NAS SSDs might do better in terms of long-term reliability with VMs

(31:36) Q: compresser is crushing the songs

(32:03) Q: Are you able to monetize your albums?

(32:26) Turn it down just a tad bit

(32:35) Q: I guess a machine running Proxmox Backup Server PBS will be on the agenda too?

(32:47) Q: In the DM, are GFX Videos capable of playing audio? I can get the video to play, but no audio, and nothing in the audio mixer either.

(33:39) We hear both. When you talk it got slightly louder. Gate, not compressor.

(35:20) Q: In the DM, are GFX Videos capable of playing audio? I can get the video to play, but no audio, and nothing in the audio mixer either.

(38:03) Q idea: When working on the lab machines, put PTZ in PiP over your shoulder or replace the map.

(38:30) Do you use HDMI Splitter to connect to the all the Video switchers once you power them on?

(40:44) Q: we lost our ndi source during our stream today in obs. it wasn't even showing up in the list. is there any way to get it back without restarting obs?

(41:22) Q: is a Nvidia 2080 still acceptable GPU for DaVinci Resolve, Premiere, Topaz A.I.? Clock speeds on the 50 series still are under 3.0GHz..

(42:01) Q: so if you need a remote guest in a ATEM setup and you want something Higher Quality than Zoom any other option? Off line is easy with Riverside but live

(43:22) NDI issues? never! LOL

(46:13) @MattWRuff heard someone contemplating shipping a preconfigured SRT encoder to a remote guest

(47:13) @David Martin Graff comparing clock speeds between generations isn't very relevant for performance

(47:22) Hmm @Grzegorz Ignatowicz I do hav couple of Pearl Nano laying around @Aaron Parecki

(50:05) The list of video you haven't done is quite long... sad you have a real job...LOL @Aaron Parecki but based on the P&L of the business probably a good thing

(50:47) Q: Is the ZowieBox able to to decode a NDI feed from ZoomISO?

(56:17) We used apple FaceTime and cropped out the controls and I thing the Quality was better than Zoom. As good as iPhone has gotten developing an App to offer a clean feed would be a interesting option...

(57:00) Q: Is the ZowieBox able to to decode a NDI feed from ZoomISO?

(57:26) The sad joke is that NDI was supposed to eliminate all of the "format concerns"

(57:31) Q: Thanks for the clarity. Which Decoders and/Or switchers have worked with ZoomISO NDI?

(1:02:47) One day OMT will replace NDI everywhere and we won't have these problems!

(1:03:01) q But now we have to specify when we ask does it work: Full, HX or the other.

(1:03:27) Q: gostream also only ndi hx

(1:04:19) Bad Network Day = Bad NDI Day

(1:05:14) Q:how about the director mini?

(1:08:24) Summary of todays stream: NDI is a mess and hardwired is always better than wireless!

(1:08:33) q With all the video splitters for the lab, do you also have a small switch for ethernet over there, or are you running cables from the closet?

(1:09:03) Q: Aaron, since you have the DM up and running, could you check the software version on it?

(1:09:26) WiFi/wireless are nice but Wires are just so much more reliable!

(1:09:32) OMT=Open Media Transport

(1:09:39) @IT Never Gets Old OMT is a new Open Source alternative to NDI

(1:09:56) Yeah I still default to video connections for video (i.e. SDI and HDMI) and Network connections for control only... NDI for me is a last resort even tho I am an IT guy

(1:10:11) Q: follow up @Adam West am West Have you played around with OMT?

(1:10:25) So a Pastor friend called me in to give advise on the cost of updating is bad Livestream to a good Livestream. If you OSEE instead of ATEM Extreme G2 it really saves some money!

(1:11:31) For my Ultra setup I do use two NDI feeds the OBSBOT Tail Air that I use for the studio shot. and the Shoot App NDI and they have always worked

(1:12:33) Issues always start with "Look what I cvan do with this camera NDI feed"

(1:17:03) Q:Don't forget to bolt it so that it does not fall over you :)

(1:17:23) I went with the medal selves from Sam because they were extreme stable and they had wheels

(1:17:31) then there was the windows update that borked ndi the fix is to set recieve to single TCP in access manager

(1:18:03) And remember it is not just HX, but HX, HX2, and HX3

(1:18:10) No not crazy! That's totally normal

(1:18:38) Q:Flood protection ?

(1:22:11) Q: Have you tried the SRT output out of Zoom ISO? Would that work with your devices?

(1:28:51) Zoom ISO SRT - where do you anticipate wanting to use SRT?

(1:29:05) Q: Can you try the zowiebox after?

(1:31:11) Q:Actually it makes sense. Zoom ISO separates the feeds and pushes somewhere.

(1:31:26) Q: is it possible to delay audio on the director mini?

(1:32:42) Is that OREI box network controllable? Is there companion support?

(1:35:56) Settings> Audio

(1:37:01) Hey Aaron, I’ve been a corporate streamer for almost ten years, and recently picked up a YouTube streamer career on the side. Your channel has always been a great source. Thanks for all the effort!

(1:37:16) Q: How do you heat your studio and home?

(1:38:25) Q: I don’t have control over the sound system feeding my livestream and in can be too quiet or too loud at times. Is there a hardware device that fix this. I currently am receiving audio via RCA.

(1:40:40) Encoding NDI-HX requires an Advanced license. HX supports common codecs like h264, whereas Full NDI uses SpeedHQ. Hardware devices tend to only support HX because they have dedicated h264 decoders.

(1:41:04) SRT compatibility can be a challenge because SRT only defines the transport stream, not the codec inside. So the encoding settings that work for one vendor may not match what another one uses.

(1:41:14) OMT currently only supports the VMX codec, so hardware devices will be in the same situation that NDI has with Speed HQ (no dedicated hardware decoders)