Quickstart - Linux
Download Multiview for NDI
After your order is processed, you'll receive a receipt with a link to "View Order." You can also go to https://app.lemonsqueezy.com/my-orders/ and enter the email address you used to order your license. You'll receive a magic link to view your orders.
Prerequisites
The NDI library on Linux depends on two 3rd party libraries:
libavahi-common.so.3
libavahi-client.so.3
OpenSSL3 dynamic libraries also need to be installed. In our tests, this seems to already be included in almost every distribution.
The usage of these libraries depends on the avahi-daemon service to be installed and running. This is required even if you are using a Discovery Server. If these libraries are not installed, Multiview will crash on startup.
On our cloud test systems, we run the following commands in Ubuntu.
The configuration settings are stored in $HOME/.ndi/ndi-config.v1.json.
For more information about Linux-specific settings, please see the NDI Documentation.
The Bash Package
Builds for x86-64 (Intel/AMD) and ARM64 (Raspberry Pi, Rockchip RK3588, and others) are available and supported. They have been tested on Ubuntu 22 and Ubuntu 24.
On the orders page, click on "Multiview for NDI". Check the links section to find the latest download for Windows, Mac, or Linux. For Linux, Multiview is provided in a Bash file that extracts the application to a subdirectory called ndimv.
Once the Bash file is downloaded, use chmod +x to give it execute permissions. Then, run it. You'll be presented with the license agreement. Type y to accept.
Multiview for NDI will be extracted to ./ndimv. You can move this directory wherever you need it on your hard drive.
Starting Multiview for NDI
Open a terminal to the location where you extracted the Multiview for NDI package. A symlink exists in this directory called ./ndimv that will launch Multiview for NDI.
Multiview for NDI will now be running.
After launching Multiview for NDI, you should see something similar to the following.
Now that you have Multiview for NDI launched, you can configure it using the web UI.
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