Installing Raspberry Ninja on the Jetson Nano & the Orange Pi Zero 3

[@TerenceKearns]

This is a very cool open-source solution. The Jetson runs with the lowest latency of any product I've seen reviewed. I've been looking at encoders like the Zowie Box and the LinkPi Enc1-V3 products but I think their latency is higher than the Jetson. I wouldn't mind having a couple of cameras up the front of the room transmitting wirelessly back to my livestream rig which includes OBS. I've already orderd the Enc5-V2 for testing which is like a video "stage box" with 5 HDMI inputs generating a stream for each input plus another for any webcam plugged into the USB. Plus it has a HDMI output (decoder). THe main advantage of these LinkPi units is the fleet management aspect of it so its easy to manage all the units on your network.

[@mediatechtube]

Hey @Terence i think we connect on Facebook too :) very true. but now better than the Jetson Nano you can use the Orange pi 5 plus.

[@TerenceKearns]

@@mediatechtube wow is that actually better? I'm a huge fan of the RK3588 but i haven't gotten one yet. was gonna use them for digitial signage but I just found out my sigange CMS (Xibo) doesn't support arm-based players. Testing a ZimaBoard for that. I wonder how the zimaboard would go with gstreamer...

[@TerenceKearns]

@@mediatechtube yeah I picked your accent for Aussie. I live near Murwillumbah.

[@IgnatSolovey]

I have both Zowiebox HDMI and LinkPi ENC1-V3 with NDI HX license. They sort of complement each other. Zowiebox is extremely reliable and latency-free when you need to turn HDMI into NDI HX, or UVC into HDMI. But not UVC to NDI HX. LinkPi does the same with UVС to NDI HX and HDMI, or HDMI to NDI HX with loop out (and also SRT and a ton of other things) and can do it at the same time, but reliability is an issue. I can't yet determine what causes lags and freezes of LinkPi NDI encoder. While either device separately is practically lag-free (*depending on the mood of LinkPi), daisy-chaining them in any combination causes a noticeable lag that is much more than combined lags of either device on their own.

[@TerenceKearns]

@@IgnatSolovey wow. that would make a very interesting comparison video (hint hint). Yeah on my initial testing, I really struggled to understand the web interface for the Link5 and to get SRT working. I did experience some of the NDI issues that you were talking about. I wonder if the V2 means a hardware revision and how your V3 compares to what I have with the Link5 V2. Obviously the Zowiebox is the way to go. I was put off by the price increase so I didn't get one. Maybe I should. I need to do more rigorous testing on the Link5. i still haven't done any real-world gigs with it.

[@TerenceKearns]

I guess we can see why the Jetson costs so much more

[@mediatechtube]

well yes, but now you can get the orange pi 5 Max. better price and more value.

[@TerenceKearns]

@@mediatechtube I ended up getting the Rock 5B to test for digital signage. I got the Emteria distro of Android installed on it and the Xibo display client. Xibo is a digital signage system with an open source CMS (docker). It works okay mostly. Xibo is a bit buggy but it's usable if you work around its problems. The Rock 5B is great. I will attempt to get ninja running on it at some point.