Can't load camera both in OBS and VDON

Can't load camera both in both VDO.Ninja and OBS (or other app) at the same time

If using a physical camera in OBS, or using a physical camera in VDO.Ninjaarrow-up-right, it can't be used by a second app.

If using the camera with VDO.Ninjaarrow-up-right, you can use it with other websites within the same browser though. So you can use the web version of Discord with VDO.Ninjaarrow-up-right; no issues with that.

However if you need to load the camera up in two different desktop apps, try the following:

  • Open up a second OBS instance, and load your camera in that instead.

  • Enable its Virtual Camera.

  • Select the Virtual Camera in VDO.Ninjaarrow-up-right.

  • Select the Virtual Camera now also in the first OBS instance (or other app). Your camera *may* now be working in both apps; this has been tested with OBS and VDO.NInja on Windows 11 anyways.

Example:

Demo of it working

If that doesn't work, another option that works well:

  • Just pull your video into OBS from VDO.Ninja. It uses up a bit more CPU, but it simplifies things to just use VDO.Ninjaarrow-up-right as the source for OBS.

  • You can also always use the Virtual Camera from OBS to load the VDO.Ninja camera feed into another app.

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