DroidCam OBS Camera

DroidCam OBS Camera 2.5.0

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Unfortunately yes, the reason for this unknown and makes no sense. Generally it's Samsung devices that do this. Google Pixel, OnePlus, and Motorola should be safest options.
 
Hey, i have now a Google Pixel 8, the image is perfect. But the sound is cracking regulary. I'v try all the settings, and the sound is still crakling regulary. Any idea ?
 
Unfortunately streaming audio perfectly with a low delay is very difficult. It's highly recommended to keep DroidCam for video-only, and use an actual microphone for audio.

You can try to fix the crackling by unchecking the "Unbuffered Output" option in your DroidCam source and then adding a delay to the source. See the "Audio choppy" entry at https://droidcam.app/obs/usage/#faq
 
Will 4k60fps return with a later update? Atleast with 2.5.1 the option is gone for HVEC for me and it always defaults to 30 with 4k. (iphone 17 promax & iphone 15 pro )
 
The FPS is determined on the phone side, that should remain unchanged between 2.5.0->.1.
Could you double check that you're using the back camera and the 60fps option is selected in the phone app settings? Does it do 60fps at 1440p?
 
dev47 said:
The FPS is determined on the phone side, that should remain unchanged between 2.5.0->.1.
Could you double check that you're using the back camera and the 60fps option is selected in the phone app settings? Does it do 60fps at 1440p?
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i apologize. it is working now. i was still using a "wonky" version of obs that i got as part of twitch's private 2k & 4k beta, and the plugin didnt liked that version at all, couldnt get it to upgrade / install, so it defaulted back to an old one. Now with the regular newst obs, it works fine again, and no more hw-decoding error as i reported earlier last month! Thank you for your hard work!
 
Hey, i try using Droid Cam with an Iphone. Works very well for the video ! My problem, it take the sound from de internal MIC. And when the app is on, impssible to acces the Dropdown menu to choose the good audio entry..... any idea ? (PS : when i use this mic with the default recording app, it is working with the good mic...) But in Droid Cam, stil using internal Audio........ help......
 
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Oh, ok, new problem ! Now, the sound from the mic is ok. But sometimes it is mono (and i don't have any problem on mono.) And when i restart my OBS and droid cam, without any reason, the source audio is stereo. And the nightmare begin. The audio is crakling like hell. How is it possible, with the same setup, to have sometimes everything working with mono, and sometimes, all is bugged with stereo... how ?
 
Any comments on the extended post I created last month about the white balance thing?

And do you also have problems with Samsung phones running EXTREMELY hot when using droidcam?
 
kafkalino said:
Oh, ok, new problem ! Now, the sound from the mic is ok. But sometimes it is mono (and i don't have any problem on mono.) And when i restart my OBS and droid cam, without any reason, the source audio is stereo. And the nightmare begin. The audio is crakling like hell. How is it possible, with the same setup, to have sometimes everything working with mono, and sometimes, all is bugged with stereo... how ?
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Audio capture on iPhone is tricky and the app grabs whatever is the default. Normally its very consistent (eg. 44hKhz mono) but if you adjust your audio options or connect / disconnect external mics it might change. Unfortunately there aren't any configurable options for this in the app as of now, and using the internal mic is the safest option.
 
ZYNCTECHNO said:
Any comments on the extended post I created last month about the white balance thing?

And do you also have problems with Samsung phones running EXTREMELY hot when using droidcam?
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White balance controls on Android are unfortunately limited. There are some new APIs in Android 16 but it turns out support for this is not very broad yet.. hopefully newer phones will support this and we'll finally get proper temp/tint options.

The phone should not get super hot, but if you're streaming 4K (and especially 4k60), then yes, its possible. I would recommend lowering the video options, dimming the phone screen, and using droidcam at 100% charge while plugged in.
 
It won't load for me on both my Linux machines, it gives me a red error on my PC,

OBS Version: 32.2.2-1.1 (From Arch Linux's repo on CachyOS)
DroidCam Version: 2.5.1 (Downloaded the linux zip file form the github repo)

Kindly find the screenshots in the attachments,

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I started obs from the terminal and got the following output,
>obs
debug: Found portal inhibitor
debug: Attempted path: /usr/bin/../share/obs/obs-studio/locale/en-US.ini
debug: Attempted path: /usr/bin/../share/obs/obs-studio/themes
debug: Attempted path: /usr/bin/../share/obs/obs-studio/themes/
info: Platform: Wayland
info: CPU Name: AMD Ryzen 7 7735HS with Radeon Graphics
info: CPU Speed: 2326.975MHz
info: Physical Cores: 8, Logical Cores: 16
info: Physical Memory: 12969MB Total, 901MB Free
info: Kernel Version: Linux 7.1.8-1-cachyos
info: Distribution: "CachyOS Linux" Unknown
info: Desktop Environment: KDE (KDE)
info: Session Type: wayland
info: Current Date/Time: 2026-08-18, 05:00:33 AM IST
info: Browser Hardware Acceleration: true
info: Qt Version: 6.11.1 (runtime), 6.11.1 (compiled)
info: Portable mode: false
info: OBS 32.2.2 (linux)
info: ---------------------------------
info: ---------------------------------
info: audio settings reset:
samples per sec: 48000
speakers: 2
max buffering: 960 milliseconds
buffering type: dynamically increasing
info: ---------------------------------
info: Initializing OpenGL...
info: Using EGL/Wayland
info: Initialized EGL 1.5
info: Loading up OpenGL on adapter AMD AMD Radeon 680M (radeonsi, rembrandt, ACO, DRM 3.64, 7.1.8-1-cachyos)
info: OpenGL loaded successfully, version 4.6 (Core Profile) Mesa 26.1.6-arch3.1, shading language 4.60
info: ---------------------------------
info: video settings reset:
base resolution: 1920x1080
output resolution: 1920x1080
downscale filter: Bicubic
fps: 60/1
format: NV12
YUV mode: Rec. 709/Partial
info: NV12 texture support enabled
info: P010 texture support not available
info: Audio monitoring device:
name: Default
id: default
info: ---------------------------------
warning: Failed to load 'en-US' text for module: 'decklink-captions.so'
warning: Failed to load 'en-US' text for module: 'decklink-output-ui.so'
libDeckLinkAPI.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
warning: A DeckLink iterator could not be created. The DeckLink drivers may not be installed
warning: Failed to initialize module 'decklink.so'
info: [pipewire] Available capture sources:
info: [pipewire] - Monitor source
info: [pipewire] - Window source
info: VAAPI: API version 1.24
info: FFmpeg VAAPI H264 encoding supported
info: FFmpeg VAAPI AV1 encoding not supported
info: FFmpeg VAAPI HEVC encoding supported
error: os_dlopen(libnvidia-encode.so.1->libnvidia-encode.so.1): libnvidia-encode.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

info: NVENC not supported
*warning: Failed to initialize module 'obs-nvenc.so'*
info: [obs-websocket] [obs_module_load] you can haz websockets (Version: 5.7.4 | RPC Version: 1)
info: [obs-websocket] [obs_module_load] Qt version (compile-time): 6.11.1 | Qt version (run-time): 6.11.1
info: [obs-websocket] [obs_module_load] Linked ASIO Version: 103802
info: [obs-websocket] [obs_module_load] Module loaded.
error: [droidcam-obs] libavcodec version 63 is too high (<= 62 required for this release).
*warning: Failed to initialize module 'droidcam-obs.so'*
info: ---------------------------------
info: Loaded Modules:
info: text-freetype2.so
info: rtmp-services.so
info: obs-x264.so
info: obs-websocket.so
info: obs-webrtc.so
info: obs-vst.so
info: obs-transitions.so
info: obs-qsv11.so
info: obs-outputs.so
info: obs-libfdk.so
info: obs-filters.so
info: obs-ffmpeg.so
info: linux-v4l2.so
info: linux-pulseaudio.so
info: linux-pipewire.so
info: linux-jack.so
info: linux-capture.so
info: linux-alsa.so
info: image-source.so
info: frontend-tools.so
info: decklink-output-ui.so
info: decklink-captions.so
info: ---------------------------------
info: ---------------------------------
info: Available Encoders:
info: Video Encoders:
info: - ffmpeg_svt_av1 (SVT-AV1)
info: - ffmpeg_aom_av1 (AOM AV1)
info: - ffmpeg_vaapi_tex (FFmpeg VAAPI H.264)
info: - hevc_ffmpeg_vaapi_tex (FFmpeg VAAPI HEVC)
info: - obs_x264 (x264)
info: Audio Encoders:
info: - ffmpeg_aac (FFmpeg AAC)
info: - ffmpeg_opus (FFmpeg Opus)
info: - ffmpeg_pcm_s16le (FFmpeg PCM (16-bit))
info: - ffmpeg_pcm_s24le (FFmpeg PCM (24-bit))
info: - ffmpeg_pcm_f32le (FFmpeg PCM (32-bit float))
info: - ffmpeg_alac (FFmpeg ALAC (24-bit))
info: - ffmpeg_flac (FFmpeg FLAC (16-bit))
info: - libfdk_aac (libfdk AAC)
info: ==== Startup complete ===============================================
warning: Failed to register with host portal QDBusError("org.freedesktop.portal.Error.Failed", "Could not register app ID: Connection already associated with an application I
D")
info: All scene data cleared
info: ------------------------------------------------
info: Device for 'Audio Output Capture' source Desktop Audio is also used for audio monitoring.
Deduplication logic is being applied to all monitored sources.
info: pulse-input: Server name: 'PulseAudio (on PipeWire 1.6.8) 15.0.0'
info: pulse-input: Audio format: s32le, 48000 Hz, 2 channels
info: pulse-input: Started recording from 'alsa_output.pci-0000_04_00.6.HiFi__Speaker__sink.monitor' (default)
info: [Loaded global audio device]: 'Desktop Audio'
info: pulse-input: Server name: 'PulseAudio (on PipeWire 1.6.8) 15.0.0'
info: pulse-input: Audio format: float32le, 48000 Hz, 2 channels
info: pulse-input: Started recording from 'easyeffects_source' (default)
info: [Loaded global audio device]: 'Mic/Aux'
info: PipeWire initialized
info: Switched to scene 'Webcam'
info: ------------------------------------------------
info: Loaded scenes:
info: - scene 'Screen':
info: - source: 'Screen Capture (PipeWire)' (pipewire-screen-capture-source)
info: - scene 'Webcam':
info: - source: 'Video Capture Device (PipeWire) (BETA)' (pipewire-camera-source)
info: - filter: 'Image Mask/Blend' (mask_filter_v2)
info: - scene 'Screen And Webcam':
info: - source: 'Screen' (scene)
info: - source: 'Webcam' (scene)
info: ------------------------------------------------
info: Device for 'Audio Output Capture' source Desktop Audio is also used for audio monitoring.
Deduplication logic is being applied to all monitored sources.
info: [Media Source 'Stinger (Stinger)']: settings:
input:
input_format: (null)
speed: 100
is_looping: no
is_linear_alpha: no
is_hw_decoding: yes
is_clear_on_media_end: yes
restart_on_activate: yes
close_when_inactive: no
full_decode: no
ffmpeg_options:
info: [pipewire] Screencast session created
info: [pipewire] Asking for monitor and window
info: adding 21 milliseconds of audio buffering, total audio buffering is now 21 milliseconds (source: Mic/Aux)
 
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