OBS Virtualcam 2.0.5

[jmbrasil]

Hi guys, morning!

I am trying to find a way to keep OBS-VirtualCam active even I change the scene. I've been added VirtualCam as filter on a scene and it´s working partcially. When I change the scene the OBS-VirtualCam stops transmite the scene to VirtualCam. Is it a way to keep transmiting the scene even I have changed to another scene?

 

[jmbrasil]

Morning guys.

When you have added OBS-VirtualCam as filter on a scene. Is it possible to keep transmitting the scene to OBS-VirtualCam even you change to another scene?

 

[Totalcontrol]

newbie question -- do i need this plug-i with 26.0? Used it with 24, but seems like it is deprecated now?

No, you no longer need a plugin.

I am new here and I had a hard time finding this:

If your internet-bandwidth is low, on the download page you might be tempted to opt for the zip package. I did and could never find the virtual camera, neither in the menu under tools nor any instructions on how to install.

But if you install the full or regular installer for Windows 10 64 bit, you will see a new button bottom-right in your OBS main window: Under start streaming and start recording there is automatically now also start virtual camera. So somebody nice has it all prepared for us, thank you. I guess, being so obvious, nobody mentioned about that virtual camera missing from the zip package. Possibly it is even included - and you need to be an OBS veteran to know how and where to make it available and then activate.

Anyway, I love this OBS and cannot wait to try my new virtual camera in my first real zoom meeting; have reduced my resolution and my framerate and maybe I can finally participate - where previously I could only do audio.

 

[jmbrasil]

But this plugin still being useful because you can have more virtual cams and can use it as filter for specific scene what is not possible in the native version.

No, you no longer need a plugin.

I am new here and I had a hard time finding this:

If your internet-bandwidth is low, on the download page you might be tempted to opt for the zip package. I did and could never find the virtual camera, neither in the menu under tools nor any instructions on how to install.

But if you install the full or regular installer for Windows 10 64 bit, you will see a new button bottom-right in your OBS main window: Under start streaming and start recording there is automatically now also start virtual camera. So somebody nice has it all prepared for us, thank you. I guess, being so obvious, nobody mentioned about that virtual camera missing from the zip package. Possibly it is even included - and you need to be an OBS veteran to know how and where to make it available and then activate.

Anyway, I love this OBS and cannot wait to try my new virtual camera in my first real zoom meeting; have reduced my resolution and my framerate and maybe I can finally participate - where previously I could only do audio.

 

[hey228]

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Очень странно, возможно, вам потребуется переустановить распространяемый пакет Microsoft C ++ или использовать более старую версию. Попробуйте установить это (с закрытым OBS) и посмотрите, появится ли он после установки: https://aka.ms/vs/16/release/vc_redist.x64.exe
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i downloaded this file - does not work, tried restarting the computer several times

 

[vmr907]

I was finally able to make the virtual camera work. But now I have another noob question. Is there a way to get the virtual cam to only display the video capture device, and not what I'm broadcasting?

 

[vmr907]

To follow up my previous question, ok, to broadcast to something like Discord, I get it, it works fine, but to use the virtual camera for Skype and the person you're talking to see the broadcast, including themselves, kind of makes no sense. Can I make it so that the virtual camera only displays my video capture device (webcam) in one iteration, then have another virtual cam display the broadcast?

 

[vmr907]

Nevermind I was able to accomplish what I wanted by creating virtual camera filter on my webcam

 

[jlbahr]

I want to run OBS Studio on the background and control it with a simple GUI that just does a couple of things to the virtual camera usable by videoconferencing apps (e.g., Zoom, Teams). After a lot of experimentation, I find that I can launch OBS Studio as a service, but that seems to disable the Virtual Camera functionality.

Some details:

I am running Windows 10 64-bit, version 2004, with newest VC++ Redistributable 14.28.29325 and OBS 26.0.2 (64-bit) and latest DLLs. If launch OBS Studio from an icon or command line. When I start OBS Studio from the command line, I see in the log:

11:45:34.687: Virtual output started
11:45:34.698: ---------------------------------
11:45:34.698: [DShow Device: 'Elo-OBS-WebCam'] settings updated:
11:45:34.698: video device: Elo_Conference_Camera
11:45:34.698: video path: \\?\usb#vid_04e7&pid_a110&mi_00#b&1569c4c&0&0000#{65e8773d-8f56-11d0-a3b9-00a0c9223196}\global
11:45:34.698: resolution: 1920x1080
11:45:34.698: flip: 0
11:45:34.698: fps: 30.00 (interval: 333333)
11:45:34.698: format: MJPEG
11:45:34.711: ==== Virtual Camera Start ==========================================

And everything works fine. I have a C# program that uses obs websocket API to do few things such as change crop and brightness. It connects to the OBS Studio just fine and works OK.

I wrote a Windows service that starts OBS Studio as a Process() with the "--startvirtualcam" argument. With the C# program, I can still connect over the websocket, but the virtual camera doesn't appear to be started (for example, in Zoom, you get the OBS logo image instead of a camera stream).

The only clue I have is that I don't see the last line in the log of the OBS Studio started in background, THIS ONE::

11:45:34.711: ==== Virtual Camera Start ==========================================

I was going to try the StartOutput() command over websocket, but it's not defined for the .NET library, apparently.

Not sure why running as a process would disable the Virtual Camera.

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

 

[ptz0n]

For Mac users, is this plugin still required to get a virtual webcam?

I just updated to OBS v26.1.0 and I can no longer get the camera to show up in Microsoft Teams (v1.3.00.28778) or Skype for Business (v16.29.39).

I did notice this in the logs:

obs_register_output: Output id 'virtualcam_output' already exists!  Duplicate library?

Anyone having similar issues?

 

[ptz0n]

Update: From OBS v26.1, this plugin is bundled with OBS. No need to install it separately. Please follow the uninstallation instructions prior to updating OBS: https://github.com/johnboiles/obs-mac-virtualcam#uninstalling

 

[bobbiev]

Update: From OBS v26.1, this plugin is bundled with OBS. No need to install it separately. Please follow the uninstallation instructions prior to updating OBS: https://github.com/johnboiles/obs-mac-virtualcam#uninstalling

Unless you find it helpful to have more than one virtualcam output. I use this quite a lot, to send different scenes to different apps or to different user profiles on a group video call. That requires the separate plugin.

 

[bobbiev]

Unless you find it helpful to have more than one virtualcam output. I use this quite a lot, to send different scenes to different apps or to different user profiles on a group video call. That requires the separate plugin.

...plus I've had problems sometimes with video glitching from the inbuilt virtual camera when Microsoft Teams has opened and closed a few times in a Windows session. That's never happened using the separate plugin, so I actually always use the plugin.

 

[ptz0n]

I see. Unfortunately, OBS on Mac was not happy with the two plugins (bundled + legacy) causing a collision when loading.

Finally got it working using OBS v26.1-RC2 and unsigned parts of MS Teams:

xcode-select --install # if you don't already have it installed.
sudo codesign --remove-signature "/Applications/Microsoft Teams.app"
sudo codesign --remove-signature "/Applications/Microsoft Teams.app/Contents/Frameworks/Microsoft Teams Helper.app"
sudo codesign --remove-signature "/Applications/Microsoft Teams.app/Contents/Frameworks/Microsoft Teams Helper (GPU).app"
sudo codesign --remove-signature "/Applications/Microsoft Teams.app/Contents/Frameworks/Microsoft Teams Helper (Plugin).app"
sudo codesign --remove-signature "/Applications/Microsoft Teams.app/Contents/Frameworks/Microsoft Teams Helper (Renderer).app"

 

[Axel Sahulata]

Hello,
I have Virtualcam 2.0.5 with OBS 26.0.2.
When I watch the Webcam output via VLC in DirectShow Capture Device, I have video and sound. But in Zoom or Webex I only have video.
Is it possible to have sound in Zoom or Webex?

Thank
Killian

I would like to thank to Fenrir who has done great job to create this helpful plugin. Thumbs up.
Now I am having the same problem like Kilianbc has encountered where I could not hear the sound from my OBS in Zoom while the video is ok. So I need help from Fenrir how to solve this problem. Thanks.

Regards,
Axel

 

[OBS_FTW]

Hello everyone,

I just signed up to (hopefully) get an answer on the following problem/issue i'm facing.
I seem to be having major problems getting the horizontal bars to disappear (related to resolution/aspect ratio mismatch)

I have to note that OBS built-in Virtual Camera works great, BUT i need two virtual camera sources, so i tried both the 2.0.4 and 2.0.5 plugin @ OBS 26.1.0 x64 (Windows 10 Enterprise version 2004 build 10.0.19041.685).

Unfortunately, whatever source/base canvas resolution/AR i set it to, the resulting output always seems to be fixed at a (stretched) 16:9 aspect ratio.

The original source i'm recording from however is a fixed 4:3. Enabling the "Keep Aspect Ratio" option only makes things worse, in that it adds additional bars to the sides, resulting in an even smaller output window, albeit not stretched anymore.

I'm pretty sure there's something glitchy/buggy in the 2.0.x code, but since i'm no programmer, i don't even know where to look, let alone, how to resolve the problem.

My hope is that:

- OBS adds built-in support for multiple Virtual Camera sources instead of a single source.
- Fenrir(thviti) fixes this problem somehow

Hopefully one of the two will become a reality.

Best regards,
OBS_FTW

 

[maor21303]

not work for ome.tv how i fix it ?

 

[jjhubbs64]

Wonderful camera but there NO SOUND? Does this plugin support the audio output of OBS in the same way so that I can send the audio from my OBS and select it as a microphone in Zoom?? If not, any ideas? So close to a solution that will allow OBS to be BOTH the camera and mic for my Zoom. Thank you!!

 

[Vortilion]

Hey, I installed this plugin not knowing that I dont need it with the recent OBS Version. How do I uninstall it, it is quite annoying to see an OBS Camera and an OBS Virtual Camera in camera selection...

 

[Inkrot]

Hello! I’d like to report a problem that leads to a crash. I’m using OBS Studio 26.1.0 with VC 2.0.5. I use multiple VirtualCamera’s for capturing a Zoom window in VirtualCam 2 and sending it to the video input in my presentation software so people on Zoom see what’s going on in VirtualCamera 1 (the output of OBS) while people in house can see the presentation software (where the video input can show zoom with a special slide with no interruptions to those on zoom).
Today as I tried to setup as normal with no changes, OBS crashes as soon as I click Start on the VirtualCamera 2 under the filter section of my Zoom window source.

I don’t know how else to report this but currently my job is leaning on all of this working together. Any help is welcome but as I said... there have been no changes on this computer.

I believe I’m using Windows 10 2004 and the most recent update of Zoom and OBS.