Cannot Get Full 90 Degree Field Of View Resolution in OBS

[derek@understandeachother]

I'm running two logitech Brio webcams on the same computer to do a 2 camera shoot. I'm running logitech g hub so I can configure the two cameras. I am setting the 90 degree field of view on both of them.

If I go into a zoom meeting, for example, everything does come straight through, except that I have to choose an option in Zoom called "HD" - that option must be chosen inside Zoom, even though when I use the g hub software it does show properly there. It's like that final configuration of the full wide screen has to have one more option turned on in Zoom. So that works perfectly.

But then in OBS I create a source for just one camera, and I don't know how to turn on that same "HD" feature in zoom, so I cannot get OBS to properly show the full 90 degree field of view. Brand new install of OBS. Just adding the source camera seems to give a 4:3 view instead of the wide screen view.

Help appreciated!

 

[OBSgeek]

I realise it's an old thread, (and with no replies !), but I've just got exactly the same problem.

One of my webcams has an FOV of 130 degrees at 16:9, and yet whatever I do in OBS it always shows it as 4:3, cropping the sides to about 90 degrees. I can't see it being a fault with the webcam because in every other webcam App it displays correctly, such as Windows "Camera".

I checked alt-drag, just in case it had somehow been intentionally cropped, but no luck.

Any help would be greatly appreciated, (just like Derek said a year ago... )

 

[AaronD]

I think that would have to be a camera problem, not OBS. The camera is somehow not giving OBS the full field that you expect. OBS just takes an array of pixels and presents it as-is, plus whatever filters you decide to add. It has no concept of "field of view", "focus", "zoom", etc., except for a PTZ control plugin or something like that.

 

[OBSgeek]

I think that would have to be a camera problem, not OBS. The camera is somehow not giving OBS the full field that you expect. OBS just takes an array of pixels and presents it as-is, plus whatever filters you decide to add. It has no concept of "field of view", "focus", "zoom", etc., except for a PTZ control plugin or something like that.

Thanks for the reply Aaron.
I did initially wonder if that might be the cause, but then again, the camera works perfectly with all other webcam applications on my PC, even the default Microsoft "Camera" app, which is very simple, and yet display the full 16:9 130 degrees with no problems.....

 

[OBSgeek]

I have a work-around for the problem.
Luckilly the webcam also has an HDMI output, and I'm able to plug this into my Elgato Camlink, and then have that as the video source for OBS. When I use that, I get the full 16:9 130 degree FOV.

it still seems strange though, that OBS is the only webcam app on my PC that can't see the full 16:9 fov.