Mirrored Virtual Cam

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Quizzy

New Member
Hi,

my problem is, that the virtual cam has two places to be launched.
One is working correctly and the other is mirroring the image.

a) Pressing the button `Virtual Cam start`. This one is located in the controls panel.
When launching the Virtual Cam that way, I get a mirrored imaged inside MS Teams.

b) Menu-Tools -> Virtual Cam
A window opens and I can start a virtual cam with the option to `horizontal flip` the image.
Using these setting all is fine once I press launch

In MS Teams I get two virtual cams. One is OBS-Camera (b) and the other is OBS Virtual Camera (a).
As it is way easier to launch a) I would like to know if I can configure that one?

Cheers
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roughnecks

roughnecks

Member
Not sure if it's the same for you but I had SLOBS and OBS with their virtual cameras enabled and "OBS-Camera" was SLOBS's, while OBS Virtual Camera is actually OBS's. Now I removed the Virtual Camera from SLOBS settings and also uninstalled SLOBS and only OBS Virtual Camera is left.
 
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R1CH

Forum Admin
Developer
OBS-Camera is from the 3rd party plugin, OBS Virtual Camera is the built in one. The flip option in the 3rd party plugin is misleading, this will flip the preview so it looks correct for you, but all the recipients will see it flipped. Video apps like Zoom, Teams, etc automatically flip the preview for you only, so it looks like you expect to see if you would look at yourself in a mirror.
 
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Quizzy

New Member
@R1CH Wow. In the meeting today I did not dare to come up with a broken layout, therefore I did not test it to the end.

Thanks a lot. It works 100% correctly. Thanks

@roughnecks Thanks a lot for the help
 
ZeroLabs

ZeroLabs

Member
That is correct. Discord also mirrors the preview. It threw me for a loop too, until I found this thread. Thought the virtual cam was flipping it but it works normally. Great to have such a supportive community!
 
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croshant

New Member
i know this forum is a year old, but can anyone help me how to open the virtual camera settings? i need to mirror it but i dont know how.
 
Suslik V

Suslik V

Active Member
@croshant in v.28 of OBS the virtual camera settings is opened via the button that lies next to the Start Virtual Camera button in the Controls dock pane. There you can specify the scene source for the virtual camera feed. By adding the special Scene source (that points to the desirable scene) you can apply custom transform to this scene source of OBS. Thus, you will have casual scene and flipped scene (on your wish) in one Scene Collection (no need to flip each source in the scene manually).
 
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OsbidiGosbi

New Member
In case someone is still using OBS version 27 and using StreamFX.
You can also right click on a Scene and
  • add a 3D Transform filter
  • change Camera/Mode to either Orthographic or Perspective
  • change Yaw (Y) value to 180.00° Deg
This will Mirror every source in your scene, so you won't have to do it manually for each.
 
InfluxxMedia

InfluxxMedia

Member
OsbidiGosbi said:
In case someone is still using OBS version 27 and using StreamFX.
You can also right click on a Scene and
  • add a 3D Transform filter
  • change Camera/Mode to either Orthographic or Perspective
  • change Yaw (Y) value to 180.00° Deg
This will Mirror every source in your scene, so you won't have to do it manually for each.
Click to expand...
Seems like Im a day late and a buck short. The latest version of StreamFX requires OBS29 on MacOS 10.15+ and sadly I'm on OBS27 on MacOS 10.14. Any way to get hold of the previous version?
 
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