Virtual Camera Resolution . . . 720p??

travispetty

New Member
Sending picture and audio to zoom via virtual camera (and using VB-cable for audio) . . . works fantastically.

BUT, when I record in zoom . . . I have HD checked in the camera settings in zoom . . . I can trick zoom by starting with a screenshare (in zoom), so the zoom recording is 1920x1200 (which is my screen resolution), but when I stop screen-sharing and change to the OBS Virtual camera feed . . . I feel like that feed is coming in at 1280x720 (even though in my OBS settings, I have the canvas and base resolutions set to 1920x1080).

Anybody know IF you can set the virtual camera resolution somehow/somewhere? Or is it capped. Or maybe it's just me.

Just seems like zoom will record in the resolution of the 1st visual source it sees. If I start the zoom recording with OBS virtual camera, it makes the zoom recording 1280x720. If I start zoom recording with my camera selected (outside of OBS), the zoom recording is 1920x1080. If I start the zoom recording with screenshare on, it makes the recording 1920x1200.

Any thoughts? Thanks!
 
Sending picture and audio to zoom via virtual camera (and using VB-cable for audio) . . . works fantastically.

BUT, when I record in zoom . . . I have HD checked in the camera settings in zoom . . . I can trick zoom by starting with a screenshare (in zoom), so the zoom recording is 1920x1200 (which is my screen resolution), but when I stop screen-sharing and change to the OBS Virtual camera feed . . . I feel like that feed is coming in at 1280x720 (even though in my OBS settings, I have the canvas and base resolutions set to 1920x1080).

Anybody know IF you can set the virtual camera resolution somehow/somewhere? Or is it capped. Or maybe it's just me.

Just seems like zoom will record in the resolution of the 1st visual source it sees. If I start the zoom recording with OBS virtual camera, it makes the zoom recording 1280x720. If I start zoom recording with my camera selected (outside of OBS), the zoom recording is 1920x1080. If I start the zoom recording with screenshare on, it makes the recording 1920x1200.

Any thoughts? Thanks!

Your observation is correct. Using the free app called Webcamoid, I can see that the OBS Virtual Camera is outputting a UYVY color space @1280x720 resolution / 30 FPS. Additionally - what we see in OBS is not what's output via the virtual webcam. images can be much more pixelated, color shift, etc.

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As a comparison, the ElGato Camlink 4k shows up as a YUY2 color format, @1920x1080 / 59.94 fps.
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I wonder what resolution is output on Windows?
 
I found a way to get 1080p / 60FOS output from OBS mac

Settings - >video ->
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Right clicking on the image in OBS: set Preview Scaling to -> Canvas (1920x1080).
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Quit / restart OBS - you should see 1080p @ 60fps output.
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falti

Member
Here is what helps me a lot (forgive the german version)

Click on the green button in the lower mid - "share screen"
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Select the second tab - on the lower right you'll find the item called "share contents of second camera" - which is of course misleading if you you have more than 2...click it anyway

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After that, you'll see a buttin on the upper left - clicking on it will enumerate through all available cameras. Click until your OBS virtual cam shows up. Voila: high res and 30 fps

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