/obs-virtual-cam

obs-studio plugin to simulate a directshow webcam

Primary LanguageC++GNU General Public License v2.0GPL-2.0

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OBS-VirtualCam

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

Supported Platforms : Windows 7 , Windows 8 and Windows 10

Supported OBS Studio version : 24.0.0+

Features

  • virtual output : A output plugin sink raw video & audio to directshow interface.
  • virtual filter output : A filter plugin sink obs source video to directshow interface.
  • virtual source : Four directshow Interfaces which can use in 3rd party software.

Install

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 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
regsvr32 "C:\Program Files\obs-studio\bin\32bit\obs-virtualsource.dll"
  1. Do it again to register 64bit directshow source
regsvr32 "C:\Program Files\obs-studio\bin\64bit\obs-virtualsource.dll"
  • If you want to Remove the directshow filter , you can also use regsvr32 to do this
regsvr32 /u "C:\Program Files\obs-studio\bin\32bit\obs-virtualsource.dll"

Register specific number of virtual cameras

Unregister then register 2 directshow camera (up to 4)

regsvr32 /u "C:\Program Files\obs-studio\bin\64bit\obs-virtualsource.dll" 
regsvr32 /n /i:"2" "C:\Program Files\obs-studio\bin\64bit\obs-virtualsource.dll"

Build

You need to install cmake , visual studio 2017 ,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 example: C:/work/obs/obs-studio/build/libobs/Release/obs.lib
  • OBS_FRONTEND_LIB (filepath): obs-frontend-api.lib path example: C:/work/obs/obs-studio/build/UI/obs-frontend-api/Release/obs-frontend-api.lib
  • PTHREAD_LIB (filepath): w32-pthreads.lib path exmpale: C:/work/obs/obs-studio/build/deps/w32-pthreads/Release/w32-pthreads.lib

Dante's current build action:

  1. build win32 and win64 copies for Obs-studio separately
  2. build win32 and win64 copies for Obs-virtual-camera separately
  3. only build release version for Obs-virtual-camera
  4. use a script to make build-package folder and build installer exe
  5. not install pdb files

Thanks for any comments to improve this build process.My mail: danteliujie@qq.com

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