dear obs-ers,
i have a purism librem 14. when i use the video/audio kill switch, the camera is either powered on and initialized by the operating system (pureos byzantium, a debian derivative) or powered off and the OS treats it just like it had been unplugged.
i have NEVER been able to use this camera with obs studio unless it was on (and virtually "plugged in") when obs studio starts and also has not been "unplugged" and "replugged" since obs studio started. if i want to use the kill switch to "unplug" the camera (e.g., to be sure a conversation in the room is private) then i have to restart obs studio AFTER i "replug" the camera.
my impression from reading about obs studio is that other people seem to report that it can see cameras that are plugged in after it is started. so this seems to be a bug in how obs is interacting with my computre (rather than the lack of a feature in obs). am i right that obs studio can normally handle newly plugged in cameras?
i have included a log file from a very short session which i started with the camera "plugged'", and obs could see it fine, and then i toggled the kill switch to "unplug" and "replug" the camera, after which obs only showed a frozen video frame from just before the "unplugging".
any suggestions? is there some user action i am supposed to take to tell obs studio to notice that the camera is working again?
thanks very much for your attention!
with my best wishes,
joe
p.s. long live non-proprietary software!
i have a purism librem 14. when i use the video/audio kill switch, the camera is either powered on and initialized by the operating system (pureos byzantium, a debian derivative) or powered off and the OS treats it just like it had been unplugged.
i have NEVER been able to use this camera with obs studio unless it was on (and virtually "plugged in") when obs studio starts and also has not been "unplugged" and "replugged" since obs studio started. if i want to use the kill switch to "unplug" the camera (e.g., to be sure a conversation in the room is private) then i have to restart obs studio AFTER i "replug" the camera.
my impression from reading about obs studio is that other people seem to report that it can see cameras that are plugged in after it is started. so this seems to be a bug in how obs is interacting with my computre (rather than the lack of a feature in obs). am i right that obs studio can normally handle newly plugged in cameras?
i have included a log file from a very short session which i started with the camera "plugged'", and obs could see it fine, and then i toggled the kill switch to "unplug" and "replug" the camera, after which obs only showed a frozen video frame from just before the "unplugging".
any suggestions? is there some user action i am supposed to take to tell obs studio to notice that the camera is working again?
thanks very much for your attention!
with my best wishes,
joe
p.s. long live non-proprietary software!