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Hi folks. I've been using OBS and VirtualCam with Teams for my lectures. I've had an issue with both Teams and Zoom where, during some meetings, the camera will freeze. OBS itself seems to be running fine, and people can still hear my audio. In order to get it back working I have to close Teams/Zoom, and OBS, and restart them both (and sometimes restart the machine). Not sure how to troubleshoot this, but if anyone has any ideas, I'd love to hear them. OBS makes teaching online a lot smoother when it works properly, so I'd really like to keep using it.
 
John_TNK said:
... but the issue is it was flipped Horizontally and whenever I flip it manually to compensate it just Crashes.
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Don't use the horizontal flip in the virtual-cam settings. It is buggy and prone to crashing the program. If you need to flip the display, right-click the scene or source and look for the horizontal or vertical flip in the "Transform" dialog.
 
Was very excited to use VirtualCam but it does not display in the drop-down menu of Tools. Tried multiple uninstalls and re-installs. Using 32-bit version on Windows 10. Is there an update on known issues?

Cheers from Australia!
 
Would it be possible to override or change the default image if Virtual cam is not running?
Thanks in advance, great plugin.
 
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Would it be possible to override or change the default image if Virtual cam is not running?
Thanks in advance, great plugin.
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Hello to all ;-) Yes I agree it should be a great idea, so the meeting attendants see something personal while we're trying to solve technical issues, or prepare the scenes.
Thanks for this great plugin and great software !
 
On macOS Mojave (10.14.06) the virtual cam appears but scrambled in Big Blue Button Webinar Server. Even the start picture is scrambled.
Everything works fine in MS Teams.
Skype doesn't offer the OBS virtual cam at all.

any Ideas?

Klaus
 
Hey sorry for bothering but I'm using OBS VC, just fine on other apps, but some of the apps that I want to use this specifically for shows an error saying can't use OBS VC please Uninstall it and refresh,

so what could be a fix for this? please respond
 
WoozleEffect said:
Looks like Facebook Messenger om Chrome or Edge will give you a hardware error when trying to access ANY webcam if OBS is running a virtual cam. Even though the permissions are set up correctly to allow FB messenger to access the camera, it still gives the hardware error.
Meanwhile the OBS Camera virtual cam is recognized easily by other online chat platforms like Google Meet, Duo, etc. It works fine on Zoom as well.

FB Messenger video chat doesn't work at all with IE, so I couldn't do it there. I tried Firefox, and it DOES work... but only when doing one-on-one video calls. Firefox doesn't support group video chat on FB Messenger and fails, advising you to install Chrome, which we already know doesn't work.

I tried to use Skype, but it appears that virtual cam is using a protocol not recognized by the Windows 10 iterations fo Skype?

If anyone knows a work-around for the FB Messenger/ Google Chrome situation, or Skype compatibility, please let me know.

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WoozleEffect, did you ever figure this out?
 
anyone know how to use virtualcam as input in snap camera?
because, obs-virtualcam output is not detected at all in the snap cam.
 
hi guys i need some help is it posible to make obs virtual camera work with ome.tv because is the only one that dont work.
the problem that i have is that i have select the right webcam for google and i have given acces to all of the devices but ome.tv still says that i have denied acces to my equipment but when im connecting a webcam its like nothing happened
 
Can anyone please help me I am trying to use virtual camera but i have grey bars I would like to make cam box on omegle fullscreen if anyone can help be much appreciated thank you
 
iHutchy said:
Can anyone please help me I am trying to use virtual camera but i have grey bars I would like to make cam box on omegle fullscreen if anyone can help be much appreciated thank you
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Unfortunately that's a long standing/known but unresolved problem (see sidemode's post in the link, below):

OBS-VirtualCam

other programs recognize "obs cam" but there is not virtual cam option in my tools drop down so i can't initialize obs virtual cam
obsproject.com

The solution/workaround people give is to change/set the Canvas base resolution so that it matches the wanted aspect ratio, but afaik this hasn't helped someone, since the only responses i see are that it didn't help them resolving the problem =/
 
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EDIT: @iHutchy HOLD UP! Can you try change the base resolution to a (5:4) one, i.e. 1280x1024 and report your findings?
 
Well, what i can say from my own experience is that OBS's built-in Virtual Camera seems to obey the 5:4 resolution that can be used on Omegle, and that the picture filled the whole frame, i.e. no horizontal/vertical bars.

Unfortunately i need an additional virtual camera (which OBS doesn't support). The available plugins that support multiple virtual cameras have forced 16:9 Aspect Ratio issues... I'm still hoping OBS will implement support for multiple virtual cams, but I'm not sure if they see the usefulness/importance in it =/
 
Well, this is very strange. At first the 5:4 aspect ratio seemed to work, but later on, i again noticed horizontal bars. When i tried the 4:3 aspect ratio again, the bars disappeared... ? o_O ¿
 
Hello everyone ! I am very glad to see that everyone here helps each other with questions and answers. I really hope that they will help me too. I know that you can change the name of the Virtual Camera through the FriendlyName registry. I change the name of the camera there, but the browser still sees the old name. Absolutely nothing helps. Reinstalled programs several times. Please help if someone has solved this problem. I really need
 
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