On a Mac however things are way less straightforward and the string and Sellotape come out pretty quickly. In Windows this is all made really straightforward as there is an OBSplugin that is available to create a virtual webcam device within OBS, the plugin is called OBS-Virtualcam and if Windows is your jam then you are pretty much home and dry. Overall this pipeline gives us a fairly simple (albeit janky AF) approach to being able to stream in any video chat client as you are just presenting the composite stream as a webcam device just like any other.
The rough pipeline for this approach looks as follows:
So now we know what OBS is, how do we convince it to play nice with video conferencing apps? The easiest way I found was to go the route of getting OBS output to show through a virtual webcam that can in turn be used as a video source for the video conferencing client. How Do I Make It Work In A Video Conference App?
