Virtual camera on Debian
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I have installed both but doesn't work
It wants your password because loading the loopback requires root permissions. I have this in root's crontab
@reboot:modprobe v4l2loopback exclusive_caps=1 card_label='OBS Virtual Camera' video_nr=99Copy/pasted from OBS's source code, so that's exactly what it wants, except I set the video number to not rearrange my physical cameras that I add and remove somewhat randomly.
That eliminates the password request from OBS, but of course requires the loopback itself to work. If yours works after you give it the password, then this is all that's left.
I can launch virtual cam now, but it did not add a camera device (/dev/video*), other programs also cannot see the device
Depending on how well entrenched you are with your current system, you might try Ubuntu Studio. It's based on Debian, so all of that should still be familiar, and it comes with a bunch of stuff preinstalled and already working. This is one of them.
Just add the cronjob like I mentioned, to avoid the password request.
And add the PPA to get the actual current version of OBS as a regular update, *before* you do anything else!
obsproject.com
If you build a bunch of stuff and then update OBS, it'll wipe all that out and you'll have to start over. The preinstalled version is that old. So update it first and *then* build on it.
Just add the cronjob like I mentioned, to avoid the password request.
And add the PPA to get the actual current version of OBS as a regular update, *before* you do anything else!
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