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Is there anyway I can make it pretend to be a webcam so I can use the output as a "camera" source for skype, teams, etc?

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Yes there’s OBS Virtual Camera and there’s NDI tools

See the setup section here: https://www.hanselman.com/blog/TakeRemoteWorkerEducatorWebca...

Zoom on Windows 10 does not seem to recognize the obs-cam virtual camera. Unfortunately.

If anyone has a solution for this, I'd love to get a hint.

Their latest Windows version has some weird DLL blacklist which blocks the ffmpeg DLLs used by the virtual camera. I made an inert version of the DLL[1] but this will break screen sharing due to a set of digital signature checks Zoom does before screen sharing.

https://twitter.com/R1CH_TL/status/1243734261628383232

didnt work for me either, I had to use NDI tools

You need to downgrade Zoom to 4.6.7: https://github.com/CatxFish/obs-virtual-cam/issues/78

Thank you! It looks like virtual camera only works on Windows for those who are interested.

I just posted a bounty for making this a build in feature. Lots of work happening on the RFC and some working prototypes already: https://twitter.com/tobi/status/1242641154576965634

Thank you for doing that! I'm using ManyCam for now (also Canadian) since it seems to be one of the only other mac apps that does camera switching easily right now. But, I'd much rather use OBS. Thanks again.

PS: I was going to build a shopify app a few years ago but I've got so many projects on the go. If you're interested in the short domain, let me know: shpfy.com

If you use the "preview to projector/monitor" with an extra monitor, then you can share that screen in the teleconference. I've done that with zoom while moving to online teaching these past weeks. I also got an idea from folks at the libre graphics track at SCaLE (southern California Linux expo) this year that you could use the preview feature but run the video out (eg HDMI) to a video capture device then back into your computer. I haven't tried that yet though.

That's a great idea... and it seems to be the only viable OBS macOS solution for now. Thanks!

https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/obs-virtualcam.539/

I haven't found an OSX or linux solution unfortunately.

Tobi Lutke (Shopify CEO) has put out a $10,000 bounty for cross platform virtual camera for OBS

https://twitter.com/tobi/status/1242641154576965634 https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/issues/2568 https://github.com/obsproject/rfcs/pull/15

This is great, there seems to be genuine motivation within the project to get this implemented.

Looks like this might help

https://www.hanselman.com/blog/TakeRemoteWorkerEducatorWebca...

On Linux I have used a v4l2loopback kernel module and an obs plugin called v4l2sink. The obs module has not had any development activity for 2 years but seems to work. This a such a useful feature it should be upstreamed for all platforms.

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