Question / Help Uinstalling OBS VirtualCam Windows 10

[lostnspace]

Hello - I installed OBS virtual camera on windows 10 pc - but couldn't get it to work with my Fuji X-T3. So I uninstalled both OBS and OBS VirtualCam and deleted the left over files and deleted the reg entry (for OBS VirtualCam). However, "OBS-Camera"l remains an option in Zoom. I've uninstalled Zoom 3 times - and OBS-Camera remains and option (actually OBS-Camera 1 - 4 remain options). Any advice on removing OBS-Camera as options?

 

[TeacherChris]

I have posted on another thread this same idea. lostnspace raises a HUGE questions . Monday morning i want to toggle bewteen my cameras cos the kids need a slick experience. I can't get rid of my obs virtual cams so i can't use the zoom shortcut (alt N) to go from one camera to the other and in fact it takes so long with repeated shorcuts it is safer to do it slowly with the mouse. But an terrible user experience.

 

[rabglus]

I have posted on another thread this same idea. lostnspace raises a HUGE questions . Monday morning i want to toggle bewteen my cameras cos the kids need a slick experience. I can't get rid of my obs virtual cams so i can't use the zoom shortcut (alt N) to go from one camera to the other and in fact it takes so long with repeated shorcuts it is safer to do it slowly with the mouse. But an terrible user experience.

Hi. Having the same problem. Did you ever find a fix for this? Thank you!

 

[rabglus]

Hello - I installed OBS virtual camera on windows 10 pc - but couldn't get it to work with my Fuji X-T3. So I uninstalled both OBS and OBS VirtualCam and deleted the left over files and deleted the reg entry (for OBS VirtualCam). However, "OBS-Camera"l remains an option in Zoom. I've uninstalled Zoom 3 times - and OBS-Camera remains and option (actually OBS-Camera 1 - 4 remain options). Any advice on removing OBS-Camera as options?

Did you ever find a fix for this?? I'm having the same problem. Thank you.

 

[Allekzandar]

I'm interested in this solution, too. I do not seem able to find a way to uninstall that and now I can't use the laptop's camera from Chrome.

 

[NPC]

I noticed this issue today as well. after uninstalling the virtualcam, I was left with a phantom "OBS Virtual Camera" option that showed an OBS logo but did nothing else.

I searched through the registry for that exact string, and found the following:

Computer\HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{860BB310-5D01-11d0-BD3B-00A0C911CE86}
Computer\HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{A3FCE0F5-3493-419F-958A-ABA1250EC20B}
Computer\HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\WOW6432Node\CLSID\{860BB310-5D01-11d0-BD3B-00A0C911CE86}
Computer\HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\WOW6432Node\CLSID\{A3FCE0F5-3493-419F-958A-ABA1250EC20B}

I renamed each of them to see which would change, and the third one was the culprit, at least as far as appearing in the camera selections. Each of these was connected to something called "VFW Capture Class Manager" which I am unsure of. Initial google searches also mention a lot of malware, but that's really not my area of expertise, so whatever.

After removing these keys, the phantom camera was gone.

 

[NPC]

...seems I spoke to soon. Upon reinstalling OBS 26 from the latest release, it came right back. Is "OBS Virtual Camera" a component of the main software now?

 

[rabglus]

NPC, this fixed worked for me! I renamed the third one. The virtual camera no longer appears in my list of cameras within Zoom or Skype and am able to toggle without issue. I am using OBS 26, but didn't uninstall/reinstall OBS. Thank you for your help.

 

[NPC]

Awesome!

Yeah after reinstalling OBS it came back for me, but then I removed the third one again and it remained gone. I'm calling it good, myself.

 

[farnsworth]

That is some good detective work. Looking at the registry keys, I noticed that one was referencing C:\Program Files\obs-studio\data\obs-plugins\win-dshow\obs-virtualcam-module64.dll

Also in that directory are a pair of Windows batch files, virtualcam-install and virtualcam-uninstall. You can use those to uninstall the OBS Virtual Cam and reinstall it later if you like, and may be safer than editing the registry directly. It does unregister the same keys listed above, so the goal is accomplished either way. This worked for me on OBS 26.0.2, earlier versions may differ somewhat.

 

[Feijoada_]

I noticed this issue today as well. after uninstalling the virtualcam, I was left with a phantom "OBS Virtual Camera" option that showed an OBS logo but did nothing else.

I searched through the registry for that exact string, and found the following:

Computer\HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{860BB310-5D01-11d0-BD3B-00A0C911CE86}
Computer\HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{A3FCE0F5-3493-419F-958A-ABA1250EC20B}
Computer\HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\WOW6432Node\CLSID\{860BB310-5D01-11d0-BD3B-00A0C911CE86}
Computer\HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\WOW6432Node\CLSID\{A3FCE0F5-3493-419F-958A-ABA1250EC20B}

I renamed each of them to see which would change, and the third one was the culprit, at least as far as appearing in the camera selections. Each of these was connected to something called "VFW Capture Class Manager" which I am unsure of. Initial google searches also mention a lot of malware, but that's really not my area of expertise, so whatever.

After removing these keys, the phantom camera was gone.

Well ... I am not very good with these things, but I would like to know how you accessed this, and if it works on Streamlabs Virtual Cam, if you can answer I will be grateful.
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