Can't share camera between OBS and FB Live

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Shepdog

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I'm having a problem with my camera when I try to do Facebook Live. It was working for several months but now it doesn't. I don't think I changed anything in OBS, but I won't swear to that. When I start OBS I can see my camera in the active scene. I then start FB Live and see my camera there. But when I look at OBS, the camera is now gone. It shows a black screen. The camera is a simple Logitech USB camera. I have checked all the drivers and they are up to date. The computer is a brand new Asus gaming laptop.(TUF506IV - A76). I was using OBS64bit version. I struggled with this for a few weeks, then last night I uninstalled it and installed OBS32bit version and was finally able to get things to work. But it's not as crisp and clear as it was when OBS64 bit version was working a couple of months ago. Where can I get help to sort this out? I'm admittedly not an expert on this, but I do understand tech, so all is not lost. Thanks.
 

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Uh, I don't get the use case
why would you want 2 applications accessing the same device (camera in this case) at the same time?
I regularly stream to Facebook (using Scheduled Event). I only use OBS.
If you want your browser, at facebook.com/live/producer/ (or similar) to access your camera directly, why would you even have OBS started? If you are using OBS for its features and it has the camera as a source, why would you want the browser session to be directly accessing the camera?

Another asked a similar question yesterday (though they had upgraded to OBS v27 iirc)
 
I guess I thought you had to run both. I use OBS so I can add text on the screen and insert video clips. I'll see if I can try it without. I guess I just need a stream key from Facebook but I don't have to run Facebook at the same time. We do Facebook LIve - I'll have to see how scheduled events works. Thank you.
 
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A primary benefit of a scheduled event is that you get a URL than non-Facebook users can watch

As for camera, no need for Facebook to directly access it... you are compositing the stream using OBS (audio video, overlays, etc) and sending a stream (hence stream key). In which case, Facebook needs the stream, not your camera
I do monitor my stream using /Live/Producer (and for security reason, a recommendation is to NOT use a Persistent [stream] Key but that does mean retrieving a new key each session, but if you monitor at /Live/Producer you are there already so negligible effort to grab a new key per stream)
 
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