Clicking "Start Virtual Camera" shows: "Starting the output failed".

[SH Fahim]

I've been using Droidcam with OBS. Now it's not working & showing error. I can see the camera preview video on OBS screen but can't get the output. After trying i failed to fix but I've came up with this temporary solution: To avoid the error, every time I have to run:

"sudo modprobe -r v4l2loopback"

After running this, i can get the output as webcam normally. I'm on Zorin OS 18, wayland, AMD cpu & igpu.
(I'm very new to linux & don't have much idea about these. So plz ask me if you need any details or tell me if you have any suggestions)

 

[NeatNit]

See my comment here: https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/issues/12506#issuecomment-4305582231 (and, if you want, read the preceding conversation)

I'll copy the important part here for convenience:

TL;DR: this is the .deb to install: https://packages.debian.org/forky/all/v4l2loopback-dkms/download just pick any of the mirrors and continue despite no https. Verify the download afterwards using the SHA256 checksum at the bottom of the page. On Mint, I could just double-click the .deb and a GUI opened to install it. Hope it's as easy on other distros. Done.

If you don't know what I mean by "Verify the download afterwards using the SHA256", you probably don't need to worry about it too much and can skip it, but if you want you can find countless guides for it online by searching "sha256 linux".