Pro Convert IP to USB: Bringing NDI Into Any Application

The Problem It Solves

NDI is a powerful production protocol, but most conferencing and presentation software does not speak it natively. Teams, Zoom, Google Meet, classroom lecture-capture, and a long list of medical and industrial applications expect a camera, not a network stream.

What IP to USB Does

The Pro Convert IP to USB takes any NDI, SRT, or RTMP stream from the network and presents it on its USB-C port as a UVC-compliant webcam. To the host software it is simply another camera. No drivers, no special integration, no software side-car.

Real-World Uses

A Pro Convert HDMI Plus at a camera position encodes the camera to NDI on the network. An IP to USB in the conference room or operating theatre decodes the NDI stream back into a USB camera for Teams or for medical recording software. Anywhere a system expects a USB webcam but the source is over IP, this device fills the gap.

Latency

Total latency on a switched gigabit network is under 100 ms NDI source to USB output. For interactive applications like remote teaching or telemedicine this is well within acceptable bounds.

Network Practicalities

NDI uses multicast or unicast UDP. A managed gigabit switch with IGMP snooping enabled gives the cleanest behaviour. Avoid putting NDI streams on the same VLAN as voice traffic where possible. PoE 802.3af powers the device, so a single Ethernet cable handles power and source.