How to Use Your Phone Camera in OBS Studio
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- Опубліковано 6 чер 2024
- Today I teach you how to use your phone camera in OBS Studio. It is incredibly easy!
Welcome to S04E10 from Waiting 2B Scene! In this week's video - I share a top tip for OBS Studio, and how you can use your web browser to stream your phone camera into OBS Studio.
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00:00 Intro
02:20 Tutorial
06:45 Outtro
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Get your phone connected into OBS for your next live stream! Today I show how easy it is.
VERY helpful video. Been learning streaming and OBS and this is fantastic. Thanks for the great tutorial!
Thank you for this video. Much appreciated.
This opens up so many additional possibilities by adding my phone as an additional camera.
Keep making content!
thanks so much. Glad it's of help!!
A clear, straight forward tutorial! Thanks mate!
Glad it was helpful!
This was really helpful! I am getting ready to do a live and this was exactly what I needed!! Thank you
Glad it was helpful.
Thank you for your time and very good presentation. Easy to follow and straight to the point.
Appreciate it man. Glad to help!
Congrats for Best video, I was searching for this long, by the way I already Subscribed
Awesome, thank you!
Absolutely brilliant tutorial, thanks for sharing.
You're very welcome!
thank you for sharing this tutorial, its very clear and easy to follow. i love it . now i can use my phone as my camera using obs. thank u thank uuuuuuu
Very glad it will be useful! ☺
Thanks for this upload. I've been wanting to include a 2nd view in my content and this has gotten me that much closer to making that happen. Now I just have to experiment with the delay to make sure it lines up with my main audio. Much appreciated.
I get that! My workaround was to add delay to my main audio. Glad you enjoyed the vid. 🖖
@@Waiting2BScene No doubt. And I'll keep that work around tip in mind 🙏🏽
I need to remember this for when I inevitably try live streaming. Great video
Thanks so much Dennis! Appreciate it!
thanks, I needed a sim wheel cam for my youtube and this is perfect!
Glad it was helpful!
my mind just got blown! I just love learning more tech. thanks
Me too! Glad to share something with you!
This by far is the most chronologically created video
In the words of Rebel Wilson in Pitch Perfect, 'What a bizarre thing to say.' 😆
Very good video. Found it very useful. Thank you so much for making it 👍!
Glad it was helpful!
This is exactly what I was looking for thank you
Thrilled to have helped!
This is amazing. Seeing as my phone camera is way better then my webcam.
I and my cats thank you!
Best reply of the week! :) You're welcome.
Fantastic !!! Mobile cameras are so much better than regular cheap webcams, unless you have a very expensive 4K webcam most mobile cameras will be light years ahead with much less noise, better low light image quality and so on, and the best is that it's completely free (if you have a mobile phone) and wireless.
Absolutely agree. Glad you've been helped then.
Thanks! It helped me a lot because my webcam decided to become crazy right now ^_^
Glad I could help!
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!! THIS WORKED! NOW I CAN START DOING REACTIONS YAY🎉🎉!!!!!
You're welcome!
Thank you bro🇿🇦❤❤ i have subscribed and shared. You helped me
Welcome 👍 Thanks for subbing.
This worked and was just what I needed! Any thoughts on how what I need to do to cut out the echo, though? So brand new to this, I feel like I've looked everywhere, but haven't found anything helpful. Thanks so much!
So good to hear! As for the echo, the most likely culprit is having both the browser source audio AND the desktop audio enabled. Mute the desktop, and see if that helps. 👍
Great! Thank's for your help.
You're welcome!
Thanks man, really helpful.
Glad it helped!
Thanks means a lot brother ☺️
thank you for sharing 👍👍👍
THANKS FOR THIS vid it did realy help
Awesome!
Hooo yes it has worked yeeeeeeeeees, Thank you so much. subscribed thank you bro
Welcome 👍
Cool! Way better camera than my basic web cam
Oh 100%!
Great video, very straight
Thanks so much
Amazing! Thank you.
Glad you liked it!
This is cool! This basically turns my phone into a wireless camera? I can walk around my house while streaming if I wanted to show off a collection or something?
Yessir. Just play around a little with dialling in your audio settings to make sure you get the most out of the experience, but absolutely. And hey, through it on a gimbal for some smoothness, and that'd look sweet!
Great video. Do you have to get a new URL for the phone camera every time you want to start a new recording/stream in OBS ? Or is the URL just a one time thing?
Just tested this afresh, and it's a new URL each time. Though it is only the code after ?view= that changes... so might be okay to manually change just that?
Thank you very much!
You're welcome!
Perfect timing...happy to use my iPhone camera which is way better than Mac and I can use the right orientation with my monitor!!!
Love that! Glad it'll be helpful.
Love the energy
Thank you!
Great thank you, I had found this earlier would have saved a lot on buying unnnecesary stuff, thank you so much
I know! Of course it's not as cool as a dedicated kit, but it's still super helpful as a backup.
thank you bro !!! i can get my nephew with our streams :)
No problem!!
Does the microphone from your phone be included in obs too?or just the camera?
Hey DNT, that's a great question. If you have given your phone browser access to the microphone, when you connect to VDO, what you are sending to OBS should include audio from your microphone. The challenge then becomes syncing between the phone audio and the rest of your OBS setup. If it is crucial, add delay to your main audio to try and get it to synchronise as much as possible. Let us know how you get on with using it! :)
very cool! thank you for the tutorial, i will be using this for unpacking pokemon cards! i did notice some quality drops but not as bad as walmarts Wifi the true test will be when im live to test it out fully!!! thanks again cheers mate
So good. One thing to keep an eye out for is the audio lag you get from the phone. A workaround I have employed is adding delay to the main audio until it matches my phone (or is at least acceptably close). Let us know how it goes!
@@Waiting2BScene the way I'll have it set up is I'll have my webcam also on during this so do you mean my webcam audio will lag? I was planning on muting the phone audio while doing this so there isn't double audio
@@psycull - nah the other way. Because the phone footage and audio need to get to OBS via the internet, there will be inherent lag compared to your webcam footage. And that is okay, so long as you account for that. I suggest adding delay specifically to the other camera *in your case, your webcam).
Hi great video it worked. One question you said you copy and pasted the link into OBS. The link was on the iphone how did you get it to the computer.. I had to type mine in OBS. Thanks again
actually a really great question. i ended up using messenger in Facebook to be able to get the url from the phone to my laptop.
Thank you. I used to use droidcam but forgot how to use it so this is ace haha
Real glad it helped you out Neill! 👍👌🎉
Thank you!!
You're welcome!
Thank you!
You're welcome!
Hey, thanks for tutorial! Question: do I need a wifi connection or I can use iPhone as modem and connect MacBook via modem connection to iPhone? I did all moves as you say but when I click OK, the iPhone view doesn't`t appear. I see black screen and the animation like image is loading. But then nothing.
OOOhmygod! It's OK. I just accidentally put down the screen at the phone. I open it and it works! It's a miracle! )))
Thanks so much!
You're welcome!
Merry Christmas 2022 new sub🙂
And a belated Happy New Year to you!
Ty so much
Thanks for the tip...
How can I link it up to other social media
Thanks for watching! Connecting to other platforms is possible. But not sure what set up you're expecting to use. 🤔
Great video. Just wondering. How do you get rid of the echo?
The only thing I can think of here that you might be running into is having both your desktop audio and your browser audio enabled at the same time. You may need to disable the desktop audio (mute it), and see how that goes.
Is there a way to connect them without lag? I'm going to be using my phone for live streams of me playing drums so it's very crucial for the camera to be spot on with the audio. Love the video tho!
That can admittedly an issue. My hackjob solution was to set up some video delay on my other input. Just about worked. See if that is at all workable for you, too.
Great ..
thanks bro!!
Glad it was helpful.
Video quality good, however when i switch from cam A to cam B(my phone) there seems to be a 1 or 2 second lag. Is this normal? Thanks
Thank you
You're welcome
How did you copy the link to your OBS studio on your pc? You skip that one part. Do you just type the link it makes?
Great question! First time setting it up, I used FB messenger to send myself the link. After that, any time I used a new instance, I'd just manually type the last section of the link (the view part).
Do you need to get a new link each time, or does it only need you to do this once?
You know, I'm not sure. I'll test it and see!
Thanks for the tips. It saves me a lot as OBS cannot read my camera. However, when it shows up in the screen, it's mirroring. Is there any way to switch it again ?
Glad it was helpful. If there's mirroring, I think there's a transform option in OBS to flip the image horizontally. Give that a go, and let me know how it went.
@@Waiting2BScene am having the same issue isn't showing full on the obs studio even after the width and height and also using the transform option, is still not showing full
Thank for your video
Do you have a video how to add my Facebook guest to obs and interact from obs?
No, sorry, but thank you for your kind words!
Thank you
Gooood
Thank you too!
It has kinda questionable security because of publicly available token. Just in case of someone wants to have an access to the stream from the phone, it can be done without streamer actually willing to show it in the actual stream (e.g. choosing scene without phone camera). DroidCam is a better option since it uses local network.
The browser uses HTTPS, so it is as secure as expected from a platform like that. However, if security is an issue, use a camera and do it "properly". Thanks for raising it as a point that needs considering though!
nice tutorial ! Is it also working on Streamlabs OBS ?
Yessir. Both versions of OBS have a browser input, so it works for both. Thanks, and all the best.
This is good to make vlogs? Thanks for the vid!
Hi Ines! Thanks for your question. Sure, why not? My personal point of view is this: give it a go, and see if it works. Will be excited to hear what your experience is.
Great idea but I tried it out with my Iphone 8 Plus using Safari. It worked no problem but was too laggy to be of any use. I was on my local network with a 50Mbps upload internet speed.
Can we connect to our Iphones via the computer's USB port via a thunderbolt cable. The Wifi stream puts a drain on resources.
I'm sure you can, but I think that would just power the phone. Give it a go, and let us know how it worked out for you!
How did u fix orientation? mine is horizontal in browser but the box in obs shows vertical
Great question. When you create the browser source, you need to change the width and height settings in there. So if it is a 720p source, make your height 1280 and the width 720... etc. Hope that helps you out.
nice one
Glad it was helpful.
can we use this for Teams/Zoom, meetings?
If you're in either of this platforms, you'd surely just use the appropriate app to connect, no? If specifically looking at including OBS in Teams, I believe you can set up an OBS Virtual Camera. That might do it. No clue about it working in Zoom though.
hello, can i put rtmp link of drone to this section "browser"?
Use media source instead of browser, and then input field for where you put the url. It'll take some time to load, though.
It's full-screen mode available?
VDO will send whatever setting you enable it with. In short, yes, it will appear as a full-screen image (rather than a shared browser window) if that is what you meant.
When I add the browser source and hit ok, that image doesnt appear like it did for you. that's the only difference i can see as for it not working for me. Is this a known issue?
Can't say that it is. Though someone may have also come across it. Maybe check out the official sub reddit and ask there? r/VDONinja.
Why not just have phone camera as an option in the software?
How to improve the audio coming from the camera please?
If it is important that you have the audio in the camera be good - then you need to invest in a better microphone for it. Something like the Rode SmartLAV might be the best solution.
Hello.. I did everything step by step but all I able to receive to my desktop obs studio was my phone’s microphone. The image is just black. My phone is showing the camera image but doesn’t get the camera image on the computer. Any idea?
In the browser, click on the cog and check it's using the camera under video input. Then check what it is outputting.
hi! can you do this with 2 phones?? thanks!
Well, as we can create multiple scenes in OBS - and each scene can have it's own sources... theoretically, yeah!
Please suggest head phones or microphone. Can I record with Mobile Audio video
When you set up the VDO connection, you can choose the audio source, and then tweak some extra advances settings. As for headphones and mics... find the best kit you can afford. People will exuse bad video (to a degree), but they will switch off because of bad audio a lot quicker!
Do you have any videos or feedback on doing this with 2 or more phones?
I haven't made a video on that, though i have done this using a phone and a second laptop for testing. Seemed to work okay. It can get a bit laggy depending on the internet connection between everything, though.
Hi, mate its not allowing me to stream cos of mic and camera not being allowed. Its denied access to my mic. What is the best thing to do? I am so close to streaming.
Sounds like a permissions setting for your browser, as VDO is a browser based application. See if you've previously denied settings to the browser app.
hi, how can i stream live on obs without allowing other apps on my device showing?
Hey BD: somehow this message slipped past me! I need to know what you mean, as I don't quite understand. If you are using the vdo.ninja browser I talk about in my video, then it is not the same thing as screensharing. If it is something else, then let me know (as that is not the intent of this video).
Nice vid, but you have to show the people to open a browser source with the + sign and add the URL. That was the most important peace off the this tutorial 😊
That is a fair point, though people may have been cognisant enough to copy and paste or write it.
What to do if it takes a while for the camera image to show? It only shows out a red "loading" circle.
A common problem. Sometimes it is fixed by going into settings, advanced, scroll to bottom, then uncheck enable browser source hardware acceleration in sources.
can you give me a link to download the obs software...thank you
Oh, sure. That's easy. obsproject.com/
How do you zoom in with the camera while live streaming?
I think that's something you'll have to do in OBS TBH. With a little prep, you can actually get a 4K image from your camera into OBS... so if you are streaming in HD, you can easily pan and scan within that frame.
this was really good tutorial no B*llsh*t just straight up...
Thanks for the feedback ZeKi. Glad you enjoyed the content!
can I do Facebook and UA-cam same time using my android phone and laptop mac?
Yes, but you will need the Multiple RTMP outputs plugin for OBS.
But when I use my phone for my Mac it connects right of way with just a cable then I’m able to disconnect the cable. How come I can’t do that with my PC? Help plz
The OS in Macland is much more integrated than it is in Windows. That's often why third-party developers have had to create innovations like the web-based camera share of VDO to get similar functionality. It's apples and oranges, my man. Both fruit and yet both are incredibly different in so many ways.
How are you able to rotate the video from portrait mode to landscape mode?
Rotate the phone to horizontal, and then set up a 16:9 ratio for the browser settings in OBS.
@@Waiting2BScene still not showing full horizontally
You need to right click the video and click transform and Click Rotate 90 Degrees CW.
How safe is that? I mean how sure are we that the site is not going through anything in our phone aside from the camera?
No promises of course. But it does use an HTTPS connection (same encryptionas your banks for eg), and specifically asks for connection to the camera and microphone. Anything beyond that, maybe give a try it via DuckDuckGo and use a VPN to further secure your connection.
Great question though!
i can use this for v or in discord camera?
Someone else asked that question too: they had success with Discord apparently, though I haven't tried it myself.
My laptop is in s mode so can not download chrome what other ways can I send the link from my phone to my laptop
Oh, okay. I guess that you could always manually type the address in?
what do i click on to put the link in u just skipped tht part and the link was instanly put in where do i go to out in the link?
Double click the browser source in the sources window. That will open the dialogue box where you need to paste (or manually type) the URL. As for GETTING the URL, I pasted it into Messenger and sent it to myself. Then I used Messenger on the desktop to copy that URL over.
this is great. I like your headset, could you send me the model please?
thanks! It's a Razer (Australia) Kraken X headset.
Pretty helpful, but for some reason the quality isnt good. Im trying to record myself drawing onto my tablet and it wont focus properly.
Sorry to hear that. When you set up in VDO, you can choose your video source. next to that is a cog wheel. maybe if you change the setting to max resolution it might help, but that's all I can think of.
hi there, i just get "the stream is not available or an error occured" any ideas where i have gone wrong?
Only thing I can think of is that there was like a single digit copied incorrectly. Maybe try to start a new instance in OBS Ninja, then copy the URL into Messenger (or something like that), so you can do a straight copy and paste into OBS.
@@Waiting2BScene thank you for the reply. I figured it out, but the camera quality was awful so will be looking at webcams soon lol.
Yea, but the phone and pc are connected through, how?... Can you take the camera 300 meters away and will it work, if there is internet access?
Hi Chilly. That's the entire point of the video: it's a browser based sharing of your phone camera that OBS can use. If it's set up correctly, the phone could be anywhere on the planet TBH.
tutorial starts at 2:30
Appreciate your helping others out!
ok but for 60 fps video 720 p and 1080 p ? How can we do it ???
If you open an OBS Virtual Camera device in VDO.Ninja BEFORE starting the output in OBS, the OBS virtual camera will default to 1080p 30fps. If you start OBS first, then it will use whatever is set as the Output resolution and framerate in OBS Studio's options, under Settings -> Video.
Hope that answers your question.
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Hopefully it is as easy as you make it seem :)
Hope so!
It Really is. Haven’t tried it with a full set up as yet but it works well so far
Love ít so mmuch
Appreciate it!