# How to share webcam from inside OBS

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This guide works for OBS Studio v27.1.3, but some users have had issues with v27.2.
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By default, you can't select your webcam in an OBS dock or browser source. This can be changed by adding a command-line parameter to the OBS launch shortcut.

Within Windows, we can right-click the OBS launch icon or app icon, right click the "OBS Studio" option, and then click Properties. This will provide us the launch properties window.

![](https://2943598173-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-x-prod.appspot.com/o/spaces%2F-MZHXv1G8N0MDxwotaT9%2Fuploads%2FET12SdadgQszehqLO9dF%2Fimage.png?alt=media\&token=fd241db2-7a3c-4649-ba22-ecffe424722a)

We want to add `--enable-media-stream` to the Target field; we want to add this after the quotations, and not inside them. See below for an example.

![](https://2943598173-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-x-prod.appspot.com/o/spaces%2F-MZHXv1G8N0MDxwotaT9%2Fuploads%2FBNU9514f7gBBMXGsbqKo%2Fimage.png?alt=media\&token=5fa4d602-4589-483a-bcfc-12ec5c9b2505)

From there, we are good to go. We can add a dock to OBS or a browser source, and we should be able to now activate our webcam source, such as the built-in OBS virtual webcam.

If we use the following VDO.Ninja URL as a dock source, we can have VDO.Ninja auto-start every time, create a new link that you can share with others. This link is setup to auto-select the OBS virtual camera and the first VB virtual audio cable, if one is available.

`https://vdo.ninja/?webcam&vd=obs&ad=virtual&autostart&cover`

![Dockable VDO.NInja, with automatic virtual webcam sharing as an option.](https://2943598173-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-x-prod.appspot.com/o/spaces%2F-MZHXv1G8N0MDxwotaT9%2Fuploads%2FVjZHxUP5TU0ihpPasjls%2Fimage.png?alt=media\&token=54471004-8c13-43b2-9892-ee638a9a7e4a)

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