The Virtual Camera is a feature of OBS Studio that allows you to share your OBS Studio scene with any applications that can make use of a webcam, such as Zoom, Skype, Discord, etc. This feature is particularly useful for applications that cannot capture the screen directly.
To start the virtual camera, click Start Virtual Camera in the Controls dock. To stop the virtual camera, click the same button again (which will be labelled Stop Virtual Camera).
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We have moved to online learning now and I found it difficult to manage so many windows and screens while giving lectures and doing demos. So I purchased Manycam last week for my Mac, everything was working great, I really loved it. That was until Friday night when the Virtual Webcam disappeared after working fine for 3-days.
Have you updated zoom and skype recently? they all introduced new security that blocks many cam. the developers are not responding to the issue. this happened with OBS as well. dont even try cam twist it is archaic and doesnt work either.
Update April 17th, 2020: Thanks to Patrick Wardle who helped me figure out that if you unsign the latest version of Zoom on MacOS, it allows these 3rd party libraries to load. I have confirmed Wirecast virtual camera and Blackmagic devices show up after unsigning Zoom.app on the current latest which is 4.6.11 Steps below.
I need to create a virtual webcam that poses as a webcam, but takes as input a set of images that it plays. I have seen solutions like ManyCam, and Fake Webcam, but they all seem to one limitation or the other (resolution, max file size, fps etc.) I am working on Windows XP SP3.
I understand that I have to write a WIA interface for this task, but being a Python programmer, I have never written drivers or interfaces to devices. What are the main tasks in writing this interface ? What would the flow look like ?
You need to write DirectShow filter which is a COM server that implements an IPin, IAMStreamConfig and IKsPropertySet interfaces. For the IPin part you'd better to start by inheriting the CSourceStream class, for that you need to get the Windows SDK, having the SDK installed there would be a DirectShow Base Classes sources in samples\multimedia\directshow folder, there you'll find the CSourceStream (among many others). DllRegisterServer function of the COM server should register your filter within CLSID_VideoInputDeviceCategory category using filter mapper.
A possible workaround to make it work with such software is to redirect it to a virtual webcam using the v4l2loopback module, as done by Webcamoid, but I need to do it from the command line, for example via ffmpeg.
I am sure this is possible via ffmpeg as well, but since real webcams are rarely redirected to virtual ones, I found no examples online (the only examples I have found, like this one, redirect screen captures or existing videos to the virtual webcam instead).
I have got it working well using the Syphon Virtual Webcam, including on fairly lengthy zooms. Occasionally the image might flip back to the OBS test / hold screen? I haven't figured out the exact pattern of this, apart from when initially selecting the OBS feed on Zoom rather than the Webcam. It also happened occasionally if I was tweaking settings in Izzy or on the Zoom itself, but I found that if I tab (Mac OS) to re-select the Syphon Virtual Webcam again it comes back online straight away. You can select the OBS or Webcam as input and can switch back to the webcam if it helps buy time to reboot, which I think I did once or twice. Pretty reliable actually and meant I could really surprise people. I used the Korg NanoKontrol 2 plug in from @DusX to be able to sit and VJ effects on my webcam image to start with so people didn't see it coming as it looked like a standard webcam feed. Nice trick.
N.B. I am not on Catalina. I note Mark mentioned with the Syphon Virtual Webcam info that it worked on Mojave. And I am on 10.14.6, the last updatable version of Mojave.
It would be great to see a way to put a screen grab or holder that wasn't the OBS Blue test screen image? As in - if you could take a screen grab to use as a screensaver and insert that into the OBS or the Syphon Virtual Webcam? Though it would appear to be the OBS that shows its blue testcard? That way it could work like @Michel's backup Izzy system, in that the screensaver is set so that it if there is drop out, it appears like a glitch rather than a drop out of feed or a crash, buying you time to reselect the SVW or reboot. This has been a lot of fun, I'll update any more info if useful.
One other thing, booting Zoom seems to now require added key chain log in each time, but otherwise works fine. I only had one Zoom crash.
Wondering if it would be possible to use ffmpeg w/ v4l2 support (on say Ubuntu Linux) to create a virtual webcam device, that presents a transformed version of real webcam's output. The idea would be that the virtual webcam device could then be used by popular video conferencing applications like Teams, Zoom, Google Talk etc.
The nature of transformations I am looking at is cropping on few of the edges, applying overlay text, applying chroma-keying, background replacement etc. I am looking for a mechanism that has least system overhead as well, which is why considering ffmpeg.
Now with the current epidemic I need to do a lot more videocalls.
But I would like to get more creative with it. So instead of streaming straight from my webcam to these videocalls I would like to override my webcam output with touchdesigner? (virtual webcam?)
So I tried to do this too, but as far as I can tell, SpoutCam only works with 32bit software, AKA not Google Chrome since they switched to 64bit a while ago. Am I missing a newer version of SpoutCam or something?
That being said, I also tried doing this with OBS by using the OBS VirtualCam plugin, which basically makes your OBS output also show up as a WebCam on your system. This combined with either OBS Window Capture or the OBS NDI input plugin allowed me to do the following chain:
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Soooo I just discovered that there is a BETA version of Spout that includes a 64Bit SpoutCam that works perfectly with all of the video chat software I have tried (anything in Chrome like Hangouts / meet, Zoom, OBS, etc)
e2eSoft VCam is a Webcam Emulator, which emulates a webcam in your system and works like a real one. It can be used in most of the applications which use webcam, such as IM software, video broadcasting, video conferencing, video teaching, remote education, video chatting etc.
As mentioned in this thread, you can use ChromaCam, a third party service for customized backgrounds currently. Virtual backgrounds are part of the new GoTo app experience and will be available on GoTo Webinar when it's launched sometime this year.
I talked to Support earlier this week and was told that GoToWebinar has partnered with Chromacam.me . However, you have to purchase from Chromacam.me. I contacted them, but it took 4 days for them to return my request for information. They do not offer a phone number on their site. GoToWebinar also offered SnapCamera.snapchat.com, but I thought that was too playful and not for professional use.
I have had a request from a panelist at one of my webinars about whether they are able to change their webcam background on GoToWebinar like you can do on Zoom or Teams - does GoToWebinar webcam have this functionality?
We have had several clients request an integrated virtual background for GoToWebinar so much so there have been requests to switch to Zoom or WebEx Events. I do not want to switch! Unfortunately, the third party apps do not work for most of our panelists . Does anyone have an update on the progress of adding one in GoToWebinar?
I have not seen this idea posted yet and I think it would be a great addition to twitch studio! Similar to the OBS and SLOBS virtual webcams, this would allow you to use your stream overlay as a webcam in other applications such as Discord, Zoom, or Omegle. Even if this is limited to only one scene at a time or something, I would find this very useful.
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