How many NDI camera outputs can you have during a Teams Meeting

hi Linkaman

as you mention th 3x3 video grid seems to control the NDI outputs. So 9 is the safe Max you can have.

It does say 10 in the MS document on NDI. I have run a test and had 10 connected, this was in Teams Live (not standard Teams meeting) I took each NDI output into VMIX and displayed on screen at once and sent back to teams for the broadcast.

In Teams Standard the 3x3 grid issue occurs as the 9 cameras all are outputted to NDI, but when you have more in Teams meeting standard then it starts switching the 10 for the 1st of the grid and so on when people start talking. Its a bit of a mess as you cannot managed a broadcast if NDI this way as ideally you want NDI channels to be dedicated. You can also use the NDI output of the Active Speaker.  So 9 is the max if you keep to 9 then you can map each without any issues. I have been using VMIX to managed this.

Now just to mention its a mess up by microsoft in that they recently updated the Teams standard meeting NDI (under the 3 dots options) to include a new menu item TURN ON NDI or OFF, Fair enough good way to control per meeting. HOWEVER in doing this they have completely turned off the NDI in TEAMS LIVE meetings. Really does not make sense as its the same software. I think someone in the programming teams department has made a bit of booboo.

And its not just me see https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/38315914-add-ndi-support-for-teams-live-events

on the Teams Voice site as 2 others have also had this problem, and not very clever MS doing this without warning the night before in my case running a customers Webcast relying on NDI.

So 9 Max NDI but only now in Teams Meeting Standard not Teams Live.

You Could do more than 9 if you run concurrent Teams standard Meetings on seperate laptops using the same local network(for NDI) and use an audio mixer to manage the sound with mix-minus.