AJA KONA LHi

In this guide we’re going over the eleventy steps needed to get the KONA LHi working with OBS on Debian 12.

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DRIVERS

0. AJA Software Installer v16.2.5 does not support kernels newer than 5.19.

1. Install the dependencies.

sudo apt install dkms linux-headers-$(uname -r) build-essential git ninja cmake

2. Download the AJA Software Installer for Linux.

3. Decompress the *.zip and change into the AJA-Software-Installer_Linux-Ubuntu_v16.2.5_Release directory.

4. Open a terminal and install the kernel driver and software.

sudo dpkg -i *.deb

SDK

0. NVIDIA users will need to install nvidia-cuda-toolkit-gcc.

1. Clone the NTV2 repository.

git clone https://github.com/aja-video/ntv2.git

2. Change into the ntv2 directory.

cd ntv2

3. Make a build directory and change into it.

mkdir ajabuild ; cd ajabuild

4. Configure the build with cmake

cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -GNinja ..

5. Compile the project with ninja.

ninja -f build.ninja

6. Install the SDK

sudo ninja install

OBS

1. Install OBS dependencies.

sudo apt install cmake checkinstall libmbedtls-dev libasound2-dev libavcodec-dev libavdevice-dev libavfilter-dev libavformat-dev libavutil-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libfdk-aac-dev libfontconfig-dev libfreetype6-dev libgl1-mesa-dev libjack-jackd2-dev libjansson-dev libluajit-5.1-dev libpulse-dev libqt5x11extras5-dev libspeexdsp-dev libswresample-dev libswscale-dev libudev-dev libv4l-dev libvlc-dev libwayland-dev libx11-dev libx264-dev libxcb-shm0-dev libxcb-xinerama0-dev libxcomposite-dev libxinerama-dev pkg-config python3-dev qt6-svg-dev swig libxcb-randr0-dev libxcb-xfixes0-dev libxcb-shm0-dev libxcb-xinerama0-dev libxcb-composite0-dev libx11-xcb-dev libxcb1-dev libxss-dev librist-dev libsrt-openssl-dev qt6-base-dev qt6-base-private-dev nlohmann-json3-dev libwebsocketpp-dev libasio-dev libva-dev libpipewire-0.3-dev v4l2loopback-dkms libvpl-dev ffmpeg libpci-dev libqrcodegencpp-dev

2. Clone the OBS repository

git clone --recursive https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio.git

3. Change into the obs-studio directory and download CEF

cd obs-studio ; wget https://cdn-fastly.obsproject.com/downloads/cef_binary_5060_linux64.tar.bz2 ; tar -xjf cef_binary_5060_linux64.tar.bz2

4. Make a build directory and change into it

mkdir build && cd build

5. Configure the project with cmake

cmake -DUNIX_STRUCTURE=1 -DENABLE_PIPEWIRE=ON -DENABLE_PULSEAUDIO=ON -DENABLE_VST=OFF -DENABLE_JACK=ON -DENABLE_ALSA=ON -DENABLE_HEVC=ON -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr -DBUILD_BROWSER=ON -DENABLE_AJA=ON -DENABLE_VLC=ON -DENABLE_WEBRTC=OFF -DENABLE_V4L2=ON -DCEF_ROOT_DIR="../cef_binary_5060_linux64/" ..

6. Compile OBS

make -j `nproc`

7. Build the Debian package

sudo checkinstall --default --pkgname=obs-studio --fstrans=no --backup=no --pkgversion="$(date +%Y%m%d)-git" --deldoc=yes

8. Install the Debian package

sudo dpkg -i *.deb

9. Run ldconfig

sudo ldconfig

10. Under Sources you now have an option for AJA I/O Device Capture.

11. Under Tools you can configure the AJA I/O Device Output.

Note: You cannot use the Device Output if you are capturing from Device Input because reasons.

PIXEL PEEPING

AJA KONA LHi

4 out of 10

$1879

KONA LHi features full 10-bit, broadcast quality, motion-adaptive SD to HD up-conversion, HD to HD cross-conversion, HD to SD down-conversion, and automatic HD/SD 12-bit component analog output.

Works out of the box

1 out of 10

Ease of setup

3 out of 10

Stability

10 out of 10

Price

2 out of 10

Pros

High build quality

SDI I/O

Cons

Mini HDMI

Limited functionality with OBS

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