Re:Show HN: OBS-web – Control OBS from the browser
by wenc on Friday June 19, 2020 @11:43AM
(#23575556)
On Linux it works with the latest v4l2loopback.
https://github.com/umlaeute/v4l2loopback
Zoom has to be > 5.0.? though. (I have 5.0.4)
Re:Show HN: OBS-web – Control OBS from the browser
by soylentcola on Friday June 19, 2020 @10:10AM
(#23574680)
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.
Re:Show HN: OBS-web – Control OBS from the browser
by mikece on Friday June 19, 2020 @02:21PM
(#23577367)
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.
Re:Show HN: OBS-web – Control OBS from the browser
by soylentcola on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @08:52AM
(#23613181)
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 ;)
Re:Show HN: OBS-web – Control OBS from the browser
by mikewhy on Friday June 19, 2020 @01:06PM
(#23576469)
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.
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).