Deltacast

In this chapter, we will go through the steps required to send or receive video via Deltacast.

Receiving Deltacast

Setup in Devices window

To create a Deltacast Receiver device node, right-click in the Devices window and choose Deltacast Receiver.

The main purpose of this node is to receive textures. However, it is also possible to use the Deltacast receiver node as a genlock.

Choose the desired Stream parameters and enable the Stream checkbox to activate the node.

Please note that LightAct does not support receiving or sending Interlaced video streams.

Setup in the Layouts window

To display the Texture from Deltacast receiver node, we are going to use the Get Texture node.

Sending Deltacast

Setup in Devices window

In order to create a Deltacast Sender device node, right-click in the Device window and choose Deltacast Sender.

The main purpose of this node is to send textures. To activate the Deltacast Sender device node, you first need to choose the Stream parameters.

Setup in the Layouts window

To send a specific texture with the Deltacast sender device node, we will use the Set Texture node.