OBS-Camera 1/2/3 Still Appearing

[Old Desert Lizard]

I'm hoping someone reads this that remembers the old OBS-Camera plug-in and can help some of us with this issue. I've seen this asked in a variety of areas, with not much helpful response.

I love the new OBS Virtual Camera (red arrow)... but I still have the old OBS-Cameras in my Zoom Camera listing (circled area):

I have a variety of camera inputs I need to use for hosting Zoom events, and these 4 unusable entries take up "real estate" on the menu, and cause issues when "advancing" the camera feed in Zoom with Alt-N.

If anyone can give instruction on how to reliably remove these entries, that would be wonderful. Thanks for any leads or info!!
Ray - Old Desert Lizard

 

[Deuce of Nands]

The OBS virtual cam installer e.g. OBS-VirtualCam2.0.4-Installer.exe installs files on your computer and uses RegSvr32 to install and register the file obs-virtualsource.dll as a service that is started each time the system boots up.

We can use regedit to show us the full path to where obs-virtualsource.dll resides.

regedit
Edit > Find
obs-virtualsource.dll
Edit > Find Next
etc.
File > Exit

After searching through the registry, I found out 2 services were installed on my machine. This meant I needed to uninstall 2 services.
C:\Program Files\obs-studio\bin\64bit\obs-virtualsource.dll
C:\Program Files\obs-studio\bin\32bit\obs-virtualsource.dll

Just like the installer used RegSvr32 to install (create) a service, we can use the /U function of RegSvr32 to uninstall obs-virtualsource.dll so it is no longer a service started upon boot.

This does require administrative priveleges.
Press the start button.
Type cmd in the search box but DO NOT press enter.
Use the mouse to right click on cmd.
Select run as administrator and click continue.
(This should give you a command window titled Administrator: C:\Windows\etc.)

At the command prompt, use the full path regedit showed us, in my case I typed:
RegSvr32 /U "C:\Program Files\obs-studio\bin\64bit\obs-virtualsource.dll"
RegSvr32 /U "C:\Program Files\obs-studio\bin\32bit\obs-virtualsource.dll"

Exit the command window and reboot your machine.
Run zoom to make sure the cameras are no longer listed.

 

[Old Desert Lizard]

Deuce,

Thanks for the clear, concise steps. I'll give them a try tomorrow and report back!

Ray - Old Desert Lizard

 

[Axemuss]

The OBS virtual cam installer e.g. OBS-VirtualCam2.0.4-Installer.exe installs files on your computer and uses RegSvr32 to install and register the file obs-virtualsource.dll as a service that is started each time the system boots up.

We can use regedit to show us the full path to where obs-virtualsource.dll resides.

regedit
Edit > Find
obs-virtualsource.dll
Edit > Find Next
etc.
File > Exit

After searching through the registry, I found out 2 services were installed on my machine. This meant I needed to uninstall 2 services.
C:\Program Files\obs-studio\bin\64bit\obs-virtualsource.dll
C:\Program Files\obs-studio\bin\32bit\obs-virtualsource.dll

Just like the installer used RegSvr32 to install (create) a service, we can use the /U function of RegSvr32 to uninstall obs-virtualsource.dll so it is no longer a service started upon boot.

This does require administrative priveleges.
Press the start button.
Type cmd in the search box but DO NOT press enter.
Use the mouse to right click on cmd.
Select run as administrator and click continue.
(This should give you a command window titled Administrator: C:\Windows\etc.)

At the command prompt, use the full path regedit showed us, in my case I typed:
RegSvr32 /U "C:\Program Files\obs-studio\bin\64bit\obs-virtualsource.dll"
RegSvr32 /U "C:\Program Files\obs-studio\bin\32bit\obs-virtualsource.dll"

Exit the command window and reboot your machine.
Run zoom to make sure the cameras are no longer listed.

Looks good but does not work, i get
"the module "C:\folder" failed to load. Make sure the binary is stored at the specified path or debug it to check for problems with the binary or dependent .DLL files. The specified module could not be found."
do you have any updates, thank you
- Axemuss

 

[nicolas71]

To work correctly and uninstall the cameras OBS-camera, OBS-camera2, OBS-camera3, OBS-camera4, you need to reinstall OBS and the plugin via OBS-VirtualCam-Installer. And then run the CMD commands, and finally uninstall everything again permanently