maaiika / obs-virtual-cam

obs-studio plugin to simulate a directshow webcam

OBS-VirtualCam

obs-virutalcam is a plugin for obs-studio , transforming the output video to a virtual directshow device.

Features

• virtual output : the plugin sink Raw Video & Audio to Directshow Interface
• virtual source : Directshow Interface which can use in other software

Downloads

The installer and compressed file can be found in Release Page. Using installer is recommended, but if you want to use compressed file to install manually , please follow these three instructions.

1. Unzip OBS-VirtualCam.zip and put it to your obs-studio install folder.
2. Run CMD as Administrator and register 32bit directshow source

command: regsvr32 "C:\Program Files (x86)\obs-studio\bin\32bit\obs-virtualsource.dll"

3. Do it again to register 64bit directshow source

command: regsvr32 "C:\Program Files (x86)\obs-studio\bin\64bit\obs-virtualsource.dll"

If you want to Remove the directshow filter , you can also use regsvr32 to do this

command: regsvr32 /u "C:\Program Files (x86)\obs-studio\bin\32bit\obs-virtualsource.dll"

Build

You will need cmake , visual studio2013 ,and build OBS project first. Set following Cmake variables:

• QTDIR (path): QT folder
• DepsPath (path): FFmpeg folder in OBS dependencies package
• LIBOBS_INCLUDE_DIR (path) : Libobs include folder
• LIBOBS_LIB (filepath) : obs.lib path
• OBS_FRONTEND_LIB (filepath): obs-frontend-api.lib path
• PTHREAD_LIB (filepath): w32-pthread.lib path

Directshow output format

Video

• YUY2
• 16:9 or 4:3 aspect ratio
• height can be divided by 2
• minimum size 320x240

Audio

• PCM signed 16-bit little-endian 44.1khz