obs v4l2 virtal cam seems to work but it does not appear in the list of devices in jitsi

[wisdomlight]

Hi until today the below command

sudo modprobe v4l2loopback video_nr=6 card_label="OBS Video Source" exclusive_caps=1

would create video6 in /dev But

I have done an update today and an upgrade and evev though no device 6 is created obs v4l2 seems to work with video5 but it does not appear in the lists of cameras in Jitsi

Any advice??

[ochen1]

After updates, try running this command:

sudo depmod -a

Before modprobeing, try running this command

sudo modprobe -r v4l2loopback

[wisdomlight]

Thank you Initially what you suggested provided modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'v4l2loopback': Exec format error I did not find a way to stop it so I purged v4l2loopback-dkms and then reinstalled and somehow it works now. I don't know why it works but it does... Thanks

[ochen1]

If everything is solved, please consider closing this issue.

Also, I (alongside many others) , recommed you to build v4l2loopback from scratch (source).

Here is the GitHub repo incase you want to do that: https://github.com/umlaeute/v4l2loopback