OBS broke my MacOS Web Cam

TheAdmiralX_29

New Member
I'm not a tech expert but I've tried everything I could think of.

Earlier today, I was signing on to a google meet, but my webcam was't working. I saw this image instead.
Screen Shot 2021-03-12 at 12.00.49 PM.png

And so I thought, "oh google accidently switched from my macOS camera to the OBS camera. So I went to settings and I tried to switch back but I saw
Screen Shot 2021-03-12 at 12.00.54 PM.png

No option of something to switch to. I went to google settings,
Screen Shot 2021-03-12 at 12.24.25 PM.png

Same problem. Nothing to switch back to and no way to add my FaceTime Virtual Camera back either.
I went so far as to delete OBS but it's still set as my default camera.
Does anyone know what to do?
I know that the FaceTime Camera still works for FaceTime, Zoom, and PhotoBooth but it will not work for any google services now.
 

jingren

New Member
Searched the DAL folder forever though, finally found it at /Library/CoreMediaIO/Plug-Ins/DAL. Then I went on to delete the obs-mac-virtualcam.plugin file and the virtual webcam was gone.
 

dionjwa

New Member
I have had this happen to me both times I installed OBS on a mac. It makes webcams on websites unusable, and is a bug.
 
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