Question / Help V4L2 with OBS on Ubuntu, webcam Logitech C922

[Niels Roetert]

Excuse the noob question, but there really isn't a lot of useful information on this combination out there.
I've bought an Logitech C922 webcam and connected it to my Ubuntu (Budgie) 18.04 LTS workstation.
I would like to use it as an source in OBS, figured I need to install the different bits and pieces of V4L2 and did so.

I now have a /dev/video0 device that points to the cam and I can use v4l2-ctl against it to query.
The cam also works fine with Cheese, Guvcview and qv4l2.

What I don't get is why it doesn't show as a source in OBS, do I need to create an additional device file or use another program to feed the webcam stream into OBS?
All help much appreciated.

 

[Harold]

Video Capture Device (V4L2) is a source type. Is that what you're missing?

 

[Niels Roetert]

Video Capture Device (V4L2) is a source type. Is that what you're missing?

No, I do see V4L2 as a source, but can't select my actual webcam as the Device when looking at the properties.

 

[Harold]

Is the camera already in use in another program when you tried?
For the C920 that I have, I didn't need to manually install V4L2 components. The camera just worked.

 

[Niels Roetert]

Is the camera already in use in another program when you tried?
For the C920 that I have, I didn't need to manually install V4L2 components. The camera just worked.

The camera wasn't in use by any application.
What distribution where you using?

 

[Niels Roetert]

Just realized that I had obs-studio installed as a snap.
Removed it and installed from the PPA instead and the camera worked right away.
Thanks for you help.