OBS icon showing as my camera?!

odabo

New Member
Hi, I finally discovered that the odd icon that shows as my camera sometimes in meetings or interviews (like when it's disconnected or there's some connection issue or something) is the OBS icon! While I generally don't want that to show (I don't use OBS for meetings, just for the occasional screen capture to show bugs or demo UI usage), I was asked by someone during an interview and a meeting if I was recording the screen, both times I said no, and the interviewer mentioned the icon was OBS! So OBS is somehow inserting itself into my camera feed, which is now freaking me out, and I hope it's not recording anything or streaming something off somewhere.

If OBS isn't doing anything nefarious, and is just showing its icon when there's an issue with my camera, then I'd like my camera to just show black like it used to when there's an issue with it (no icons please). Otherwise, if OBS is recording my camera or the screen when I haven't told it to, I need to know how to de-insert itself from my camera feed or whatever. Even just showing an icon seems like a bit of overreach, but then I don't know why it's doing it.
 

R1CH

Forum Admin
Developer
It sounds like you're using the OBS virtual camera in your meetings. Set it back to your real camera. If your real camera is disconnected, the browser / software might default to the OBS camera if it's the only one left. If you don't use the virtual camera you can uninstall by running virtualcam-uninstall.bat as admin. It can be found in C:\Program Files\obs-studio\data\obs-plugins\win-dshow
 

odabo

New Member
It sounds like you're using the OBS virtual camera in your meetings. Set it back to your real camera. If your real camera is disconnected, the browser / software might default to the OBS camera if it's the only one left. If you don't use the virtual camera you can uninstall by running virtualcam-uninstall.bat as admin. It can be found in C:\Program Files\obs-studio\data\obs-plugins\win-dshow
I'm not sure you understand what I'm saying. I didn't "use" a virtual camera, the icon just started showing up for my camera when my camera wasn't ready or disconnected or something during video meetings. I didn't realize it was the OBS icon for a while. I don't know why I'd need a virtual camera, nor why OBS even does that.

I'll try the uninstall file but why would it need admin access? I don't think OBS needed admin access to install...
 

LisaMiza

New Member
By "use" R1CH means that you have the virtual camera device installed. All you have to do it change what camera you use in your meeting software :)
Additionally you can uninstall the virtual camera with the steps R1CH described.
I must say tho, the virtual camera is sick if you do some presentations, I love that it's a thing :3
 
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