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ARCHIVED! This plugin is officially a part of OBS as of version 26.1. See note below for info on upgrading. 🎉🎉🎉Creates a virtual webcam device from the output of OBS. Especially useful for streaming smooth, composited video into Zoom, Hangouts, Jitsi etc. Like CatxFish/obs-virtualcam but for macOS.

10 mentions on Hacker News by 7 people: 2 stories, 8 comments · first 2020-04-07 · latest 2020-10-16

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  1. …compatibility list for the mac obs webcam plugin. I wonder if Sony's driver has the same issues. https://github.com/johnboiles/obs-mac-virtualcam/wiki/Compat...
  2. …a few times now. It will depend on the target app if they have this in their allowed plugins list. https://github.com/johnboiles/obs-mac-virtualcam/wiki/Compat...
  3. …typically test while developing. Not sure why it wasn't working; possible it's an obscure OBS bug. https://github.com/johnboiles/obs-mac-virtualcam/blob/master... 2) It might also be possible to get the virtual camera to advertise one of…
    comment by johnboiles · 2020-06-03 · in OBS (macOS) Virtual Camera
  4. …of folks have reached out to Zoom support to request that my plugin be added. See the latest in https://github.com/johnboiles/obs-mac-virtualcam/issues/4 for details. I wouldn't fault Zoom for being restrictive about what they include in…
    comment by johnboiles · 2020-06-03 · in OBS (macOS) Virtual Camera
  5. It's seemingly a MacOS Code Signing limitation. https://github.com/johnboiles/obs-mac-virtualcam/issues/4
    comment by whywhywhywhy · 2020-06-03 · in OBS (macOS) Virtual Camera
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    OBS (macOS) Virtual Camera
    story by mistersquid · 2020-06-03 · 155 comments
  7. …your video conferences with OBS compositing (allows you to do green screen, multiple cameras, etc) https://github.com/johnboiles/obs-mac-virtualcam
    comment by johnboiles · 2020-05-15 · in Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?
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    First Official Release of the macOS OBS Virtual Camera
    story by pseidemann · 2020-05-13 · 0 comments
  9. …out and it worked for me, although I had to build it and OBS from source. He has good instructions. https://github.com/johnboiles/obs-mac-virtualcam
  10. I made a plugin that sorta works for this last week: https://github.com/johnboiles/obs-mac-virtualcam