How to Use Your Phone Camera in OBS Studio

You don't need to go and buy an expensive camera, or webcam for your stream. If you have an iPhone or an Android, the camera on these devices are amazing and they even have a built-in light as well. So in today's video, I'm going to save you some money by showing you how to turn your phone into a webcam. Completely for free that you can use in OBS to be able to stream with let's go ahead and dive in. So the very first thing that we're going to want to do is you're gonna want to open up your. You going to come to VDO.ninja, and I'll put the link in the description of this video. Once you hear on the website, you're going to come to the right-hand side and select create reusable invite. Once you select that, it's going to give you a pop up window just like this. And the only option we wanted to change is on their advance option. Video resolution. You want to select the maximum resolution you're going to select generate the invite link. This is going to now give you a guest invite link. This is the link that you're going to send to your phone. Texting email. What I like to do is go ahead and just grab your phone. This works on an iPhone and an Android, and later here, in a few minutes, I'm going to share you how the best settings you can put inside OBS to get the best quality. So what you want to do on your phone is you want to open up your camera. You're going to want to go ahead and scan the QR code that you see. It's going to bring you over to a website and on the website is going to say, share camera. You're going to select that. It's going to say VDO.ninja would like to access the microphone and camera because you can utilize this also as a microphone for your live stream. So select allow, and then under audio sources, I'm going to select no audio. Then for the video source, you can use the front camera. If you'd like, or you can use the back camera, the back, camera's always going to give you the best quality. So I'm going to select the back camera. And then what I'm going to do is that I'm going to turn my phone sideways and I'm going to go ahead and hit start. Okay. Now what we want to do is you want to go ahead and copy this OBS browser source link on our web browser on the VDo.ninja website. And now we want to go ahead and go back to OBS. We want to go into select the scene where we're going to want our webcam to be able to live. So I'm going to select a webcam scene. I'm going to come to sources. I'm going to hit the plus. And I'm going to go a select browser. You can name this webcam and then select. Okay. And we want to do is, want to go ahead and paste the link. We just copied into the URL. So you just grab it and you'll paste it. And now we want to do is under the width. You want to go ahead and do 1920. By 1080 and then you want to scroll down and select control audio via OBS. And you also want to scroll down and select the refresh browser when scene becomes active. You select, okay. You'll click. Okay, here again. So you want to come to where it says settings. You want to go to where it says advance. You want to go ahead and scroll down to where it says sources, and you want to make sure that you have checked where it says enable browser source hardware, acceleration. This is going to make the quality of the webcam 10 times. Better. where I give you free overlays. You can download and walk you step-by-step on getting them all setup. I'll see you in the next video.

Channel: LAS Curry

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Id: 86S0tV1QeCE

Length: 3min 11sec (191 seconds)

Published: Wed Jun 08 2022