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This is kinda neat... You run OBS in your computer, displaying video from several phones you are using as NDI video devices, and control all of that on an iPad

by MR4D 6y ago

This is kinda neat... You run OBS in your computer, displaying video from several phones you are using as NDI video devices, and control all of that on an iPad (or something else) running a web browser. Thinking thru this, you can run your whole home studio setup while sitting at a desk looking like an anchor/host with minimal fuss. Honestly, I think this will help people up their game on small budget productions. I love OBS. Waiting for it to work with Zoom again though (not their fault - that’s a Zoom thing).

soylentcola 6y ago
Does it not work with Zoom on a particular platform? At least as of last Friday I used it as my virtual cam for a weekly Zoom meetup (mainly just to add some basic color correction/cropping to my webcam feed). Didn't notice anything not working, but I only used it on Win10 and didn't do anything fancy.
- mikewhy 6y ago
  On macOS at least, Zoom has a list of accepted virtual cameras. I think it has something to do with code signing. You can disable code signing in Zoom, and it will let you use OBS / unsupported virtual cameras, but it then won't be able to do screen sharing.
- mikece 6y ago
  There is a feature of OBS called OBS-VirtalCam that presents your "program output" as a webcam on your system which you could select as your webcam input on Zoom... or Skype or Teams or anything else. https://davidwalsh.name/obs-webcam https://davidwalsh.name/obs-webcam
  - soylentcola 6y ago
    That's what I use for mine. I even messed around with using Snap's PC application to generate a virtual green screen, then using Snap's virtual cam as the input into OBS. Then in OBS I do any cropping and color correction before adding a chromakey for backgrounds and overlays and sending the OBS virtual cam to WebEx, etc. Way more elaborate than just buying a green sheet but I didn't have to go anywhere or buy anything ;)
- MR4D 6y ago
  It didn’t on my Mac the other day, and I had previously read that some Zoom changes were breaking it, but I’ll try some of the suggestions I’ve read here to see if they work for me.
wenc 6y ago
On Linux it works with the latest v4l2loopback. https://github.com/umlaeute/v4l2loopback https://github.com/umlaeute/v4l2loopback Zoom has to be > 5.0.? though. (I have 5.0.4)

by MR4D 6y ago

soylentcola 6y ago

Does it not work with Zoom on a particular platform? At least as of last Friday I used it as my virtual cam for a weekly Zoom meetup (mainly just to add some basic color correction/cropping to my webcam feed). Didn't notice anything not working, but I only used it on Win10 and didn't do anything fancy.

mikewhy 6y ago
On macOS at least, Zoom has a list of accepted virtual cameras. I think it has something to do with code signing. You can disable code signing in Zoom, and it will let you use OBS / unsupported virtual cameras, but it then won't be able to do screen sharing.
mikece 6y ago
There is a feature of OBS called OBS-VirtalCam that presents your "program output" as a webcam on your system which you could select as your webcam input on Zoom... or Skype or Teams or anything else. https://davidwalsh.name/obs-webcam https://davidwalsh.name/obs-webcam
- soylentcola 6y ago
  That's what I use for mine. I even messed around with using Snap's PC application to generate a virtual green screen, then using Snap's virtual cam as the input into OBS. Then in OBS I do any cropping and color correction before adding a chromakey for backgrounds and overlays and sending the OBS virtual cam to WebEx, etc. Way more elaborate than just buying a green sheet but I didn't have to go anywhere or buy anything ;)
MR4D 6y ago
It didn’t on my Mac the other day, and I had previously read that some Zoom changes were breaking it, but I’ll try some of the suggestions I’ve read here to see if they work for me.

wenc 6y ago

On Linux it works with the latest v4l2loopback. https://github.com/umlaeute/v4l2loopback https://github.com/umlaeute/v4l2loopback Zoom has to be > 5.0.? though. (I have 5.0.4)