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Were you using Zoom? I had a lot of trouble using either the OBS virtual camera or sharing the composition window---what was transmitted was either potato quality or the video lagged very far behind.

After a LOT of debugging, I'm convinced it was due to Zoom bandwidth throttling, which I was unable to get waived.

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Yes. Zoom is fine, you can either up the resolution for the "speaker view" in your account preferences (maybe just in the paid version), or even better: Use the screen share feature and under "advanced" you can share a second camera, or in this case: the virtual OBS camera. This will usually not be compressed as hard as the speaker views.

Using Zoom with OBS (virtual camera) works fine for me.

In some cases it looked fine for me but for the other persons it looked really ugly. Make sure you use the v"2nd camera mode" in screen sharing options of zoom. Do not do it as your own camera or it will look really bad. On Linux, I have to start zoom after Obs and the virtual camera for all that to work properly.

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