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OBS Studio Virtual Camera won't work

rated 0 times [ 3] [ 0] / answers: 1 / hits: 12155 / 3 Years ago, sun, september 12, 2021, 3:21:03

I've found some guides which say that this used to be complicated, but is now as simple as

sudo apt install obs-studio && sudo apt install v4l2loopback-dkms

This does indeed give me a "Start Virtual Camera" button on OBS Studio. When I click it, I am prompted for a password. And that's it. Nothing else happens. The button still says "Start Virtual Camera" (it should change to "Stop Virtual Camera"). And no virtual camera is detected by Firefox, Zoom, or Cheese.

Am I doing something wrong?

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answered 3 Years ago tionpromoti · Accepted Answer

It turned out that disabling secure boot allowed modprobe to get the virtual camera to work. There may be another way to work this without disabling secure boot, but that worked for me. https://askubuntu.com/a/1198351/652 is the guide to disabling secure boot.