Using Multple cameras with OBS under Windows 10 How do I do it ?

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Paul-H

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Hi all

I am quite new to OBS so this might be quite obvious but I cant find the solution.

I have 4 cameras hooked up to my PC, all are USB cameras, If I connect all 4 to the same HUB I can cycle through them if I was to use Windows Camera App so I know they are working but I am having issues in OBS. If I have them all connected to the same HUB the only way I can switch between them is to first disable to active camera, switch to the next camera and then activate that one, is it possible within OBS to just switch between each camera without going through the activate/deactivate, routine.

The only way I can find to do it, is to attach each camera to its own separate HUB which are each in turn connected to a different USB port on my PC, this then works fine but the wiring is a mess and its playing havoc with my OCD.

Is it possible to just have all 4 cameras connected to the same HUB without the Activate/Deactivate process.

Thanks for any help with this

Paul
 
Hi Paul,

if they are really four _independent_ cameras, they should show up individually in OBS. If you have to switch over (using what?), then it seems to be something hardware/vendor specific.

Additionally i hope that they are not usb-2.0 cameras due to the very limited bandwith. I still use cheap usb cams too, at least one using usb-2.0 still. Even using this single camera on a dedicated usb-port/hub it is massively limited in resolution versus framerate. So it seems (at least) that it's no good idea to use bandwith-intensive cameras on a single usb hub, isn't it?

Edit: Start with trying two of them on different ubs ports to your streaming machine. Look if they can be fetched into OBS simultanously.
 
Running multiple USB cameras on one hub is asking for trouble. The bandwidth available on a USB hub will be a limiting factor. If you are unsure which USB ports are connected to which hubs or even how many hubs you have available a useful utility is UsbTreeView which lists the hubs and what is connected to each port.
 
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