No "OBS Virtual Camera"

[FERcsI]

I tried to find information on my issue, but I did not find any. I installed OBS Studio 30.0.2 for Windows (Windows 10.0.19045) on my HP laptop. I can create scenes with camera image (I have a built-in camera and an external one) and everything looks to work perfectly. I can even start virtual camera from OBS Studio, there are no error messages.

However, there is no "OBS Virtual Camera" option in any of my other programs. My programs see only the two physical cameras.

I tried to reinstall OBS Studio, but nothing changed. What could be the problem?

 

[Harold]

What programs have you checked for the virtual camera in?

 

[FERcsI]

The most important would be MS Teams, but I tried Chrome and the Camera App. My colleges with the same laptop-setup can use MS Teams well with OBS studio.

 

[Harold]

Where did you install OBS from?

 

[FERcsI]

I downloaded it from obsproject.com, if you mean that.

 

[Harold]

Then a regular install (not a portable one) will register the modules and they SHOULD be available after at most a system reboot.

 

[FERcsI]

Thanks. I also thought that should happen, but it does not, in my case :(. And that's why I am hare to get some idea what I could do. In registry, some system settings, etc.

 

[FERcsI]

Any more thoughts on this? Is there any detailed description how it should work? Should it appear in Device manager? Should it appear if OBS Studio is not running? Is there any restrictions (e.g. it works only if it has been installed by an Administrator, or it should be run by Administrator)? I checked these and installed OBS Studio multiple times, but nothing changed: OBS camera does not appear in my programs. Nowhere. (I also tried the old OBS virtual camera plugin but it is not compatible with this version any more).

What could I have missed that I didn't try?

Maybe there's some program/driver that it's conflicting with?

 

[Harold]

It won't show in device manager.
In the install folder for obs under \data\obs-plugins\win-dshow, there is a virtualcam-install.bat file that, when run as administrator, attempts to re-register the virtual camera modules.

 

[FERcsI]

Thanks for this idea. I run win-dshow/virtualcam-uninstall and then win-dshow/virtualcam-install and restarted my computer and then OBS Virtaul Camera appeared. :) Not much tests, yet, though. Hopefully, it will stay there for a longer time :)

Thanks one more for your support

 

[Bulltipper]

So if I did not install OBS on my system and only using the portable version, theres no way to have the virtual camera? Or at least the navtive one built into OBS. Sadly I'm not an admin on my machine and I'm trying to find a way to do this so I can use the virtual cam in MS Teams. TYIA

 

[koala]

OBS (and any other app that provides virtual devices) needs to register some of its dlls in Windows, so Windows sees a virtual webcam. If you cannot register the dlls, Windows will not be able to provide the corresponding webcam.

 

[FERcsI]

I also installed OBS as an administrator, but somehow this dll registration did not run or did not work, even though I have installed it several times. But when I ran the "virtual-cam" install manually (also as an administrator), it worked.

 

[catalin.marin]

Hello!
I have the same problem, the OBS Virtual Camera does not show up in other applications (Windows Camera, Whatsapp Desktop).
I have tried running OBS with admin rights, running the uninstall and install virtual camera scripts also with admin rights, restarting the PC, none worked.
My OS is Windows 11 64 bit Pro, up to date, OBS is the latest stable version, 30.2.0 64 bit . I also tried on a Windows 10 Pro 64bit laptop and I have the same problem there.
Does anybody have any other idea on how to solve this? I assume there has to be a camera registration error logged in a log file somewhere, but I don't know where to look. Also, the OBS Studio application does not give any error or warning in the UI.
Thank you!

 

[ckimm]

Thank you so much for your help. It worked for me!

It won't show in device manager.
In the install folder for obs under \data\obs-plugins\win-dshow, there is a virtualcam-install.bat file that, when run as administrator, attempts to re-register the virtual camera modules.