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Proposed bounty for adding virtual camera / microphone support natively to OBS

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Re: Proposed bounty for adding virtual camera / microphone support natively to OBS

#11
Slightly on topic: Does anyone know if a solution to get remote guests into OBS? Vimeo Studio 6 supports sharing a web link to a page that then feeds the guest webcam back to Studio and guests appear as video sources.

There are some propriety Skype solutions, but they are not cross platform and Zoom can share a feed, but neither give you access to the individual camera and audio feeds.

Re: Proposed bounty for adding virtual camera / microphone support natively to OBS

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Wow, what a badermeinhof, yesterday I tinkered with installing the virtual camera plugin in OBS to prank my coworkers with some Fraggle Rock action. Video works, but not audio. Which maybe is just as well for my use case.

Oh. Yeah, the self quarantine - of course many will be find out about OBS these days.

Re: Proposed bounty for adding virtual camera / microphone support natively to OBS

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What's "OBS?" That would be valuable information.

Following the links leads to the Open Broadcast Studio project at https://obsproject.com/

I concur that letting non-obvious abbreviations stand is a bad thing because it wastes the time of N readers who would need to look it up while it saves the effort for 1 writer who already knows and only has to write it out. This is inefficient.

Re: Proposed bounty for adding virtual camera / microphone support natively to OBS

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What's "OBS?" That would be valuable information.

Open broadcaster software (studio) is a open source broadcasting tool, mainly used for recording and streaming videos of: video games, vlogs, video podcasts, etc. Basically an open source version of xSPlit.

Re: Proposed bounty for adding virtual camera / microphone support natively to OBS

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For the purposes of pranking people on zoom calls, I setup a OBS / Syphon / Camtwist flow that works great for my alternative conference requirements (ranging from matrix style graphics, playing videos of me on the green screen doing things in the background, scrolling comments on the meeting on my video feed etc...). However... it is a major MAJOR PITA to get going when I want to jump on a quick call and more than o…

I did this by mistake today using XSplit broadcaster + Xsplit VCam. I was playing around last night, and when I logged in this morning my work video conferences (Hangouts, Teams) all had an extra (virtual) cam with funny stuff going on in the background from the various features I had played with on Xsplit. Funny, but also frustrating until I switched it off in the background

Re: Proposed bounty for adding virtual camera / microphone support natively to OBS

#16

Not exactly the same scenario, but I just wanted to share a neat little hack I discovered yesterday… I work with a team who now meet in Google Hangouts but it doesn’t work over the company’s internal network yet… so I couldn’t share my screen to do a demo of an internal app. Instead, I got another computer which was on the internal network, plugged the HDMI output into an Elgato Camlink, which made it show up as a We…

You can get a noname HDMI in USB 3.0 Capture box from AliExpress for around $50 that will also work.

Re: Proposed bounty for adding virtual camera / microphone support natively to OBS

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For the purposes of pranking people on zoom calls, I setup a OBS / Syphon / Camtwist flow that works great for my alternative conference requirements (ranging from matrix style graphics, playing videos of me on the green screen doing things in the background, scrolling comments on the meeting on my video feed etc...). However... it is a major MAJOR PITA to get going when I want to jump on a quick call and more than o…

If you can share a view details on your setup that would be great!

yes, seconding this

Re: Proposed bounty for adding virtual camera / microphone support natively to OBS

#20

What's "OBS?" That would be valuable information.

Following the links leads to the Open Broadcast Studio project at https://obsproject.com/ I concur that letting non-obvious abbreviations stand is a bad thing because it wastes the time of N readers who would need to look it up while it saves the effort for 1 writer who already knows and only has to write it out. This is inefficient.

I guessed it could not possibly be the only OBS I was aware of https://openbuildservice.org/
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