Is it possible to change the OBS virtual camera offline image?

astrovan14

astrovan14

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With the OBS-VirtualCam plugin, the output of the virtual camera would be just plain gray when virtualcam was disabled, which was nice if you turned on your camera before you started virtualcam and didn't want to be distracting in your meeting, but now for obs 26, the virtual camera shows a logo when offline, which is non-ideal. Is there a way to change that?
 
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R1CH

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You can replace the placeholder.png in C:\Program Files\obs-studio\data\obs-plugins\win-dshow but note it will revert after an update.
 
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Honkis

New Member
R1CH said:
You can replace the placeholder.png in C:\Program Files\obs-studio\data\obs-plugins\win-dshow but note it will revert after an update.
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When I did that OBS crashes every time I try and load it up. The crash log shows the file location as obs-virtualcam-module64.dll How can i fix this?
 
Lloyd Black

Lloyd Black

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The change may work with the "VirtualCam" plug-in (which I had been using) but OBS now has the new "OBS virtual camera" built-in. I changed the placeholder image for the plug-in but with the new feature it still shows the OBS placeholder and not the image I replaced it with. So, I'm guessing the new built-in one is totally different but uses the same placeholder image. I found out because the image I tried to replace it with matches "placeholder.png" but it's still showing the OBS image and not what I replaced it with. Is there a different image filename for the new "OBS Virtual Camera"? Any idea what it's called and where it's at?
 
Lloyd Black

Lloyd Black

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Lloyd Black said:
The change may work with the "VirtualCam" plug-in (which I had been using) but OBS now has the new "OBS virtual camera" built-in. I changed the placeholder image for the plug-in but with the new feature it still shows the OBS placeholder and not the image I replaced it with. So, I'm guessing the new built-in one is totally different but uses the same placeholder image. I found out because the image I tried to replace it with matches "placeholder.png" but it's still showing the OBS image and not what I replaced it with. Is there a different image filename for the new "OBS Virtual Camera"? Any idea what it's called and where it's at?
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Ok, I tried to edit my post, I just quoted, I found the solution to my own problem. Changing the placeholder.png does work with the new feature but in order for it to show up I needed to restart my system. It's amazing what problems get resolved by doing a simple restart. I feel like an idiot but I guess as long as I learn something it's not a total mistake.

By the way, originally, Zoom did try to block the OBS VirtualCam plug-in, at least that was my experience. However, I was able to get around that by doing a little registry hacking to change the name of what Zoom was looking for. They don't seem to be blocking the new feature yet as far as I know. Zoom meetings are just more fun using OBS.
 
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brokenantler

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Just to follow up to those trying to do this on a mac, there's another placeholder image located here:
/Volumes/Macintosh HD/Library/CoreMediaIO/Plug-Ins/DAL/obs-mac-virtualcam.plugin/Contents/Resources/placeholder.png

Easiest way here is from Finder, Choose Go> Go to Folder and paste the location. You will likely have to edit permissions of the image and or containing folder for write access, but this is the PNG that changes the default placeholder when OBS virtual cam isn't running.
 
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ultrametrics

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brokenantler said:
Just to follow up to those trying to do this on a mac, there's another placeholder image located here:
/Volumes/Macintosh HD/Library/CoreMediaIO/Plug-Ins/DAL/obs-mac-virtualcam.plugin/Contents/Resources/placeholder.png

Easiest way here is from Finder, Choose Go> Go to Folder and paste the location. You will likely have to edit permissions of the image and or containing folder for write access, but this is the PNG that changes the default placeholder when OBS virtual cam isn't running.
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Anyone knows where this location is in the OBS 30 Release candidate 1? Since upgrading, I cannot find obs-virtualcam.plugin in that specified folder anymore.
 
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old.viking

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ultrametrics said:
Anyone knows where this location is in the OBS 30 Release candidate 1? Since upgrading, I cannot find obs-virtualcam.plugin in that specified folder anymore.
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According to the source code custom placeholder on macOS can have 2 different locations:

Code: 
/Applications/OBS.app/Contents/Resources/obs-mac-virtualcam.plugin/Contents/Resources/placeholder.png

Code: 
/Library/Application Support/obs-studio/plugin_config/mac-virtualcam/placeholder.png

Source code:

github.com

obs-studio/plugins/mac-virtualcam/src/dal-plugin/OBSDALStream.mm at df990192b2582f9b254837adb3c4aed4d61b479d · obsproject/obs-studio

OBS Studio - Free and open source software for live streaming and screen recording - obsproject/obs-studio
github.com github.com
 
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carcarcarcarson

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old.viking said:
According to the source code custom placeholder on macOS can have 2 different locations:

Code: 
/Applications/OBS.app/Contents/Resources/obs-mac-virtualcam.plugin/Contents/Resources/placeholder.png

Code: 
/Library/Application Support/obs-studio/plugin_config/mac-virtualcam/placeholder.png

Source code:

github.com

obs-studio/plugins/mac-virtualcam/src/dal-plugin/OBSDALStream.mm at df990192b2582f9b254837adb3c4aed4d61b479d · obsproject/obs-studio

OBS Studio - Free and open source software for live streaming and screen recording - obsproject/obs-studio
github.com github.com
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Same boat as @ultrametrics here. Can not find the .png file in those locations after uninstalling RC2.
OBS Virtual Camera is still an option after uninstalling RC2 (dragging application to trash) and the placeholder image shows up when selected as camera.
 
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ultrametrics

New Member
old.viking said:
According to the source code custom placeholder on macOS can have 2 different locations:

Code: 
/Applications/OBS.app/Contents/Resources/obs-mac-virtualcam.plugin/Contents/Resources/placeholder.png

Code: 
/Library/Application Support/obs-studio/plugin_config/mac-virtualcam/placeholder.png

Source code:

github.com

obs-studio/plugins/mac-virtualcam/src/dal-plugin/OBSDALStream.mm at df990192b2582f9b254837adb3c4aed4d61b479d · obsproject/obs-studio

OBS Studio - Free and open source software for live streaming and screen recording - obsproject/obs-studio
github.com github.com
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I checked these locations and also other subfolders. I found several folders with the placeholder.png within

Code: 
/Applications/OBS.app/Contents

However, changing these placeholder pictures has no effect, it still shows the OBS standard picture.
 
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ultrametrics

New Member
To be clear, there were 2 locations with placeholder pics:

Code: 
/Applications/OBS.app/Contents/Library/SystemExtensions/com.obsproject.obs-studio.mac-camera-extension.systemextension/Contents/Resources

and

Code: 
/Applications/OBS.app/Contents/Resources/obs-mac-virtualcam.plugin/Contents/Resources/

Changing the picture in either of these had no effect, even after restarting the system.
 
PaiSand

PaiSand

Active Member
This is the OBS windows support, not mac. You should direct your question directly on the mac support forum in this site.

Mac Support

Support for the Mac version of OBS Studio
obsproject.com obsproject.com
 
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Avarice1of2

New Member
I am on windows and obs does not even display the normal placeholder, when there is no input to the virtual camera it is literally just 1 pixel. This makes it impossible to move, or scale, and I can not get it where it needs to be for my theme.
 
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