OBS for remote college professor?

dnuttall

New Member
Would like to communicate with anyone who may have a remote college professor with a good streaming camcorder, OBS to "feed" into the "Zoom" environment?

The university has Zoom but they seem to be "clueless" regarding the accomodation of an incoming stream.

We know the streaming works because we have done a 2-hr stream to FaceBook!

Camera is JVC GY-HM200U.

TIA.
Dave
 

dnuttall

New Member
THANKS for the insight!
Is the purpose of that plugin to allow an EXTERNAL camera to be passed as if it is the webcam?
We're a couple "ancient dudes" (in our mid-70s) trying to hang on to our "youth" by keeping our brains active!
Dave
 

dodgepong

Administrator
Community Helper
Well, it sounds like what you want to do is broadcast OBS over Zoom to someone watching Zoom on the other end, right? Zoom makes OBS appear as a webcam so that you can do that.
 

Andersama

Member
There should be driver / software that would go along with the camera to have it treated as a web camera, if it doesn't just work that way by plugging it in. I remember for the Canon Rebel T3I there was software set aside for controlling the camera w/ a computer, the type of stuff you'd need if you were planning on doing a really long time-lapse or if you needed to set up for something like school year book, but part of that functionality also included a driver to treat the Canon as a web-camera.

The virtualcam plugin does a similar thing but for obs, it treats what you'd typically broadcast or record as a web camera, allowing you to use it to "broadcast" over programs like Skype.

The JVC GY-HM200U is pretty high end, there's probably more than a few ways to get it's video stream over to obs, if not directly to Zoom. Looking at amazon it looks like from the specs it's got an hdmi output and it's own streaming capabilities. I don't use capture cards so I can't make recommendations on what to buy, but if the software seems to fall short that could be a solution w/ the HDMI output. If the camera can stream on it's own, I'd check the manual to see if it can to custom rtmp server (since it says it can stream directly to YouTube that should be possible) You can use rtmp streams as a media source in obs. That w/ the virtualcam plugin dodgepong mentioned and you'll be set.
 

Steven Michael

New Member
The Virtual Input app in Newtek's NDI Tools (https://www.newtek.com/ndi/tools/) will let you use an NDI stream as a webcam source in Zoom. Use the NDI plugin in OBS to output an NDI stream, and pick it up in Zoom as a virtual webcam. Compatibility with Zoom is even mentioned in the description for the tool:

NDI Virtual Input
Designate an available NDI source as the video input for popular software applications that support a webcam. With NDI Virtual Input, NDI sources are recognized as standard Microsoft® Windows® video and audio sources, making it possible to elevate your video communications without increasing the complexity of your setup.
  • Compatible with Google Hangouts, GoToMeeting, Skype, Zoom, and more
  • Supports full frame rate video and audio up to 1080p and 4K UHD at 60 fps
 
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