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Teams NDI status?
Can we get a status on the release of NDI within Teams? There are a bunch of us trying to find the best solution for event coordination and have been prioritized to avoid Zoom. With how Skype handles NDI outputs being all but unusable, we're all gunning for Teams to step up and be the solution but aside from the initial announcement, there has been zero feedback on how it will handle things like forced watermarks, audio mixing, or return video allowed to be NDI as well.
There are quite a few even in the circles that I partake in that would be VERY interested in more information such as how it handles audio (comparatively to Skype's terrible decision to mix-down), the watermark requirements, HX compatibility, and whether it will allow for NDI as an input source or whether we need to create a virtual camera with it.
Hi AskMP
Nothing on the Microsoft 365 roadmap currently
The official build announcement states coming soon
The book of news actually states June, see article 2.1.5
https://news.microsoft.com/build-2020-book-of-news/
With new Skype TX interoperability for Microsoft Teams rolling out in May and NDI support available worldwide in June, customers can use Teams to create online conferences, interviews, press briefings, entertainment and other productions. They also can reach audiences through internet social channels and streaming platforms, television broadcasts or websites.
Producers can plan and manage events in Teams, which integrates collaboration, work management and real-time communication with chat, calling and meetings. Expanding on the existing live event solution that allows for anyone to easily share webcams and screens to thousands of viewers, now Teams is introducing these more advanced production options for customized, high-scale broadcasts.
NDI for Teams, available in June, transforms the feeds of a Teams Meeting into discrete audio/video sources for a production tool or streaming app to provide professional capabilities for broadcasts that help turn a Teams meeting into a virtual stage
So, considering the timeframes I would imagine we will be hearing more very soon, and likely roll out sometime in Q3 CY2020 (July - Sep) given it's already the end of June.
Hope that answers your question
Best, Chris
It would seem that the feature is enabled and my sys admin has confirmed he has enabled NDI for our site however on my client I am not seeing the option to turn on NDI within teams
Any thoughts, have we missed a setting in the admin panel?
Steve_Lawson We have exactly the same issue, I have enabled it in the global settings but noting on the client, this was enabled over 24 hours ago.
Any one got any suggestions?
After waiting for months, we finally got the NDI feature in our tenant!!! Been playing around with Teams, NDI and OBS. Here is a quick video i made..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaZKYJ2z3ic
Enjoy 😉
For me, this is already a HUGE failure on Pernille-Eskebo's part:
Individual users: Each individual user will have a stream available over NDI. The incoming audio for a meeting is mixed together and will be the same for all individual user streams. These streams will display the video at the same quality that is being received by the client.This is the same functionality as Skype's implementation and it's one that we were hoping would not be the case. Having a mix-down of all the audio combined causes all but 1 NDI output to be de-synced due to simple latency within the NDI protocol. The fact that this is the case almost negates the purpose of waiting for this functionality. If you have only 1 guest + screen, sure... it will be fine. But more than 1 person and this method of mixing down all the external audio into each NDI video feed is absolutely unacceptable practice.
AskMP NDI Seems to be working for me now. I am not able to properly test it at the moment.
SuleimanDC Can you advise where you found this setting in the Microsoft Teams admin center, please?
SuleimanDC I checked this morning and it showed up for me as well after closing and relaunching Teams
I also found some more instructions on the feature itself.
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/using-ndi-with-microsoft-teams-e91a0adb-96b9-4dca-a2cd-07181276afa3?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=USSuleimanDCwhen i try to active ndi on my teams client, i get the following message : Sorry, a problem occured when downloading the file. Try to re-activate NDI
PhilippeL1080 I would check that your firewall isn't blocking the download of the teams image that shows up when there is no video. You could also try to close and reopen the Teams app.
AskMP I just noticed the "Allow NDI streaming" setting in the admin centre but still no communication or documentation.
SuleimanDC I checked our tenant as well and it is showing up in ours as well. hopefully that means Microsoft is getting closer to releasing.
Carter Seely looks like it is also showing up on our tenant. Has anyone actually enabled it and tried to use it?
- Hi there, I too am waiting to here. Sibos 2020 is happening in September and we need NDI available by then, I don't think Microsoft have any idea how useful it would be. Everything is geared around streaming and not recording, no doubt it will cost more as well. The fact it has taken this long is mind boggling, oh well, relying on Microsoft for something video related, big mistake. Sort it out!!
Looks like it was recently added to the road map with a beginning release date of mid-August and a completion of mid-September
Link to roadmap Item
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=66009
Several days now and still no responses or replies? Not even a "Hold tight, we'll be announcing information X"?
Hi AskMP
Nothing on the Microsoft 365 roadmap currently
The official build announcement states coming soon
The book of news actually states June, see article 2.1.5
https://news.microsoft.com/build-2020-book-of-news/
With new Skype TX interoperability for Microsoft Teams rolling out in May and NDI support available worldwide in June, customers can use Teams to create online conferences, interviews, press briefings, entertainment and other productions. They also can reach audiences through internet social channels and streaming platforms, television broadcasts or websites.
Producers can plan and manage events in Teams, which integrates collaboration, work management and real-time communication with chat, calling and meetings. Expanding on the existing live event solution that allows for anyone to easily share webcams and screens to thousands of viewers, now Teams is introducing these more advanced production options for customized, high-scale broadcasts.
NDI for Teams, available in June, transforms the feeds of a Teams Meeting into discrete audio/video sources for a production tool or streaming app to provide professional capabilities for broadcasts that help turn a Teams meeting into a virtual stage
So, considering the timeframes I would imagine we will be hearing more very soon, and likely roll out sometime in Q3 CY2020 (July - Sep) given it's already the end of June.
Hope that answers your question
Best, Chris
ChrisHoardMVP Thanks for that. With it stating that a June release and with the amount of industry professionals I know, I'm just VERY curious to now why I haven't even heard from anybody who has actually used it. Without going into names, I work closely and alongside a lot of event and live production people, yet none of them have seen even demos of this in play. With it being a "June release" and it also being now June 25th, it is truly bizarre that there has been zero release of expected functionality considering that Microsoft is trying to push Teams to be a tool for professionals to use in replacement of Zoom, Slack, and others.
My interest is simply to get more information for all of us. The Skype TX isn't a solution for a lot of us, and Skype currently, while does have NDI out, is not a viable option in many cases simply due to how the engineering team decided to treat the audio. We're (as in the crews behind the scenes) are biting at the chomp for details and a more refined timeline of expectations as we need to start planning for events even so far as the fall and early winter seasons.
