Question / Help Iphone only shows up in OBS app

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KarstenB

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Hi
I'm new to this. Corona quarantine has forced me too teach students from the safety of my studio using for instance Messenger, Skype or (as I would like to have working) a browser based virtual classroom on www.whereby.com. Facetime, I believe, was already noted as not functioning with OBS, am I right?
However, my iPhone only works as a webcam within the desktop OBS itself, and does not show up as an option in any of the mentioned apps.

What do I do to make that happen?

My equipment:
Macbook Pro 15" mid 2015, 2.2 GHz, OSX Mojave, 16 GB Ram
Iphone 6S, iOS 13.3.1, 64 GB

Help much appreciated, thanks

KarstenB
 
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KarstenB

New Member
Hi. Thanks for replying.
I'm trying to use my iphone as a webcam, therefore effectively replacing the build in camera in my laptop. I stumpled accross OBS, which allows streaming with the iphone as webcam, however, I can't seem to find a way to make it stream to other services than the ones listed in the dropdowm menu in settings; how do I get it to work (that is streaming, replacing my build in Mac cam) with for instance Skype, Whereby.com or other service?

Thanks,

KarstenB
 
Narcogen

Narcogen

Active Member
Skype is not a streaming service, it's a videoconferencing service. There is no way to make OBS work with it, nor is there a reason to if you're just using a phone as a webcam.

There is, on Windows, a 3rd party plugin for OBS that allows for:

1) The output to of OBS to be used in place of a webcam. The purpose of this is for people who want to send output to an app like Skype that normally works with a webcam, but to send it output that is not from a webcam-- a capture of a screen, or of an application's windows. The name of this plugin is OBS VirtualCam. However, it only works on Windows, not MacOS.

2) There is another technology called NDI which is a way of sharing video between programs on the same computer, as well as between multiple computers on a network. It runs on both Macs and Windows PCs. Skype produces output in this format, which allows people (like journalists or teachers) who are streaming to a video platform like YouTube, Twitch, or Vimeo, and include content from a video interview they are conducting on Skype.

If you're not doing that kind of streaming or recording, then OBS probably isn't really part of your workflow.

If what you're trying to do is use an iPhone as a webcam in Skype or Whereby, but you aren't recording the result, or streaming to YouTube, Twitch, or some other one-way video streaming service, then OBS is probably not part of this solution.


What you most likely want is the iOS app EpocCam, which turns an iPhone into a webcam that can be used by Mac applications.

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Works great with Skype, Microsoft Teams, Zoom and many, many more applications.Ready to go in 3 minutes or less.
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ImilianoProductions

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There are several apps that can help but if you plug in your phone with a cable directly into your computer you should see your phone come up as a video source. Then you just open up a camera app. Worked for me on Catalina
 
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