squarepantsspongebob / ndicapi

A common C API for communicating with NDI Polaris and Aurora devices

History

• Program: NDI Combined API C Interface Library
• Creator: David Gobbi
• Language: English
• Authors:
  • David Gobbi
  • Andras Lasso [e-mail]
  • Adam Rankin [e-mail]
• Version: 1.4
  • Date: 2005/07/01
• Version: 1.5
  • Date: 2015/05/30
• Version: 1.6
  • Date: 2016/03/08

Overview

This package provides a portable C library that provides a straightforward interface to AURORA and POLARIS systems manufactured by Northern Digital Inc. This library is provided by the Plus library, and is not supported by Northern Digital Inc.

The contents of this package have been built successfully under a wide range of comilers. It is a CMake project and can be configured and built as such.

Building

To build, configure first using CMake, then build according to your chosen generator.

Untested: To build a Python (http://www.python.org) version of this library, do

python setup.py build
python setup.py install
>>> import polaris

Contents

The main contents of this package are as follows:

1. A C library (libndicapi.a, ndicapi.lib/dll) that provides a set of C functions for communicating with an NDI device via the NDI Combined API. The documentation for this library is provided in the ndicapi_html directory.

2. Two C++ header files (polaris.h and polaris_math.h) that provide and interface, via libndicapi.a, to an NDI device via the
   POLARIS Serial Communications API that predated the Combined API. Documentation is provided in the polaris_html directory.

3. A python interface to the ndicapi library. However, only the original POLARIS API is supported through python. The full ndicapi interface is not yet supported.