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psychological

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Hello catxfish. I appreciate your hard work a lot and I'm going to donate as soon as I can use this. It is really useful, but unfortunately whenever I try to run the VirtualCam (no errors) I just get a gray screen. In Chrome and Skype. It shows the VirtualCam in the list, but unfortunately it only shows a gray screen. Would appreciate your help :)
 
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catxfish

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psychological said:
Hello catxfish. I appreciate your hard work a lot and I'm going to donate as soon as I can use this. It is really useful, but unfortunately whenever I try to run the VirtualCam (no errors) I just get a gray screen. In Chrome and Skype. It shows the VirtualCam in the list, but unfortunately it only shows a gray screen. Would appreciate your help :)
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Make sure your OBS version is above 19.0.0 and click the start button in the plugin option pages.
 
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jeichberger

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catxfish said:
There are something you can try in this discussion
https://github.com/CatxFish/obs-virtual-cam/issues/23
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Sorry, this didn't help either. This is what I've tried:
  • run all available Windows updates
  • install latest version (21.1.2) of OBS studio
  • uninstall and re-install Microsoft Visual C++ 2017 Redistributable
  • as posted by GenesisFR in your link, I removed all 32bit DLLs except the two mentioned:
    • I removed the folder C:\Program Files (x86)\obs-studio\obs-plugins\32bit
    • From the folder C:\Program Files (x86)\obs-studio\bin\32bit
      I removed everything except avutil-55.dll and swscale-4.dll
  • I rebooted Windows in-between
  • I tried to install older versions of OBS Virtual Cam
But the error always stays the same (for both DLLS - 32bit and 64bit, just a different message depending on whether I run the installer or register it manually via admin CMD)

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Any other ideas?
 
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maxime33

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Hi,

First of all thank you catxfish for this great plugin...

Could you please tell me if it is possible to rename the virtual camera?

By default, I can see the name is "OBS-Camera" is it possible to change it? If yes how?

Thank you,

Maxime.
 
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CJ123

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Replying to Jeichberger, I don't know if the below will help. I had issues with the RegSvr32 error (I have a windows 7 x64 machine).
After updating and restarting, re-run the update check (you may need to check multiple times depending how far behind you are).
Then reinstall or repair the 4 Visual C++ redistributables. x86 and x64 for 2017 and x86 and x64 for 2013. One pair is specified for the OBS install and one pair is for the plugin. (I don't know if running as admin makes any difference for the redistributables, I would assume not)
Then try the OBS camera install again (try both methods if one doesn't work).
If the x64 version plugin works but the x86 plugin version does not work, then you will probably still see the OBS camera in the OBS program, but other programs (ie Skype) might not see the OBS camera.
 
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Brad K

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First off, thanks for this awesome plugin.

The plugin has been working great for GoToMeeting but it is not showing up as a camera in Skype. Is anyone else have issues seeing the camera in Skype but have it working fine in other applications?

Any advice to get it working is greatly appreciated.
 
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lebaston100

Member
Brad K said:
First off, thanks for this awesome plugin.

The plugin has been working great for GoToMeeting but it is not showing up as a camera in Skype. Is anyone else have issues seeing the camera in Skype but have it working fine in other applications?

Any advice to get it working is greatly appreciated.
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It will only work with the classic Skype desktop version and won't with the Skype win 10 app.
 
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catxfish

Member
maxime33 said:
Hi,

First of all thank you catxfish for this great plugin...

Could you please tell me if it is possible to rename the virtual camera?

By default, I can see the name is "OBS-Camera" is it possible to change it? If yes how?

Thank you,

Maxime.
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Technically the display name is stored in registry. you might modify name by regedit.
 
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peachpit

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Hi catxfish,

Thank you so much for adding such a necessary feature to OBS!

However, when I try to use OBS-Virtualcam, the virtual output is very low resolution (about 640x480?) and about 15-20 FPS, constant. Without OBS-Virtualcam my output is 1920x1080 and over 30 fps. And in all cases my CPU and RAM utilization is under 50%. My network speed is not a bottleneck either.

How do I fix it?

Thanks so much :)
 
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catxfish

Member
maxime33 said:
That's a good news! Could you please tell me the path so I can change the display name in the registry?
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[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Classes\CLSID\{860BB310-5D01-11d0-BD3B-00A0C911CE86}\Instance\{27B05C2D-93DC-474A-A5DA-9BBA34CB2A9C}]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{860BB310-5D01-11d0-BD3B-00A0C911CE86}\Instance\{27B05C2D-93DC-474A-A5DA-9BBA34CB2A9C}]
 
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catxfish

Member
peachpit said:
Hi catxfish,

Thank you so much for adding such a necessary feature to OBS!

However, when I try to use OBS-Virtualcam, the virtual output is very low resolution (about 640x480?) and about 15-20 FPS, constant. Without OBS-Virtualcam my output is 1920x1080 and over 30 fps. And in all cases my CPU and RAM utilization is under 50%. My network speed is not a bottleneck either.

How do I fix it?

Thanks so much :)
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The webcam format usually depends on your 3rd party software compatibility , not the cpu usage or network.
Do you get same result when you are using a real webcam to your 3rd party software ?
 
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fluor1te

New Member
found a fix for the RegSvr32 bug:
This was happening to me on a fresh win10 install with nothing else installed.
I'm not sure which one of these solves the issue, so:
install all VC++ redists x86 and 64.
including the following:

Visual C++ 2005 Redistributable x86
Visual C++ 2005 Redistributable x64

Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable x86
Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable x64

Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable x86
Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable x64

Visual C++ 2012 Redistributable x86
Visual C++ 2012 Redistributable x64

Visual C++ 2013 Redistributable x86
Visual C++ 2013 Redistributable x64

and the other two are the ones you need for OBS to work so you should already have them (2017)

and boom it should work.

Edit: apparantly its the 2013 one that fixes it according to issue 23 on github
 
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catxfish

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DkapYT

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I'm having a problem where when I open it, I get an Entry point error, and so I ran a dependency checker, it seems lots of things are having errors. How do I fix?
dependency.JPG
 
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catxfish

Member
DkapYT said:
I'm having a problem where when I open it, I get an Entry point error, and so I ran a dependency checker, it seems lots of things are having errors. How do I fix?
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What is the version of obs-studio your are using? it seems error occur on virtualoutput.dll not virtualsource.dll.
 
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Marseloo

New Member
Hello, maybe one of you will find the answer to my question:
I have uninstalled the virtualcam plugin, but something else has to be manually uninstalled

I can not find it, I have new windows for a few days so it's clean !
I do not know where the missing folder is, I type a different questions but windows is not found

any help?
 
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catxfish

Member
Marseloo said:
Hello, maybe one of you will find the answer to my question:
I have uninstalled the virtualcam plugin, but something else has to be manually uninstalled

I can not find it, I have new windows for a few days so it's clean !
I do not know where the missing folder is, I type a different questions but windows is not found

any help?
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Can you point out exactly what part needs to manually uninstall?
 
Kavukamari

Kavukamari

New Member
this is EXACTLY the kind of functionality I've been begging for for a long time, I'm very glad this is an option now, the devs seemed to not particularly want to do it themselves, so the fact that someone put the time in to make it is spectacular, and I appreciate all of the work that went into making this possible
 
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