Skype and OBS Virtual Cam

[berofsky]

I use OBS with Zoom all the time so that I can use my iPhone’s video (by capturing the phone’s screen in OBS) and separate microphone (with VB-Cable). However, when I use it with Skype it consistently drops frames and is laggy. Is Skype just not cut out for OBS? Or is there something I’m missing?

 

[Mfzl]

Hi Berofsky, I share the same problem as you, but I'm experiencing it in Zoom. Is it possible for me to know the settings that you use so that the video output will not be laggy.

 

[berofsky]

I have a 2016 MacBook Pro 13” with a 2.9 GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i5, 8 GB 2133 MHz LPDDR3, and Intel Iris Graphics 550 1536 MB.

I’m using Apple VT H264 Hardware Encoder at 3000 Kbps with Keyframe interval at 2. Base resolution of 1920x1080 and output resolution of 1280x720 (since no platform seems to want to do a video call at 1080p) and 30 FPS. However, since I am relatively inexperienced with OBS I’m sure these settings could be optimized more but this is what I’m using at the moment. Hope this helps!