Uninstall OBS Virtual Cam but still available for selection

[timjobutler]

Hi,

I trialled OBS and the OBS Virtual Cam for a potential setup but no longer required it. I uninstalled both programs but the 4 virtual cams installed are available for selection in Zoom.

How do I remove these cameras for my laptop?

Specs

• Windows 10 version 1909
• Zoom version 4.6.10 (20033.0407)

[EMREOYUN]

Confirmed. I also having this issue in my both laptops.

[helmut-steiner]

Try this:

1. Open the registry editor
2. Go to Edit->Find...
3. Type OBS-Camera in the text box and hit Find Next
4. You should find some registry entries with OBS Camera name
5. Delete them

[theedoms]

Hi there I have the same problem on Windows 10, the OBS-Camera is still visible in my meet sessions. There is no registry entry named "OBS-Camera" Any hint welcome to get rid of this ghost camera please.

[nonplayer]

I am having this same issue. Previously I had "obs-camera" and "OBS Virtual Camera" as different options. Now after uninstalling the plugin, the "obs-camera" option is gone, but "OBS Virtual Camera" still lingers. I cannot figure out how to remove it.

[nonplayer]

On Win10x64, I did a complete uninstall of OBS vrtualcam, ndi plugin, and OBS Studio itself. It left behind one single file:

C:\Program Files\obs-studio\data\obs-plugins\win-dshow\obs-virtualcam-module32.dll

This got my hopes up, as it seemed to match the criteria. So I ran:

regsvr32 /u "C:\Program Files\obs-studio\data\obs-plugins\win-dshow\obs-virtualcam-module32.dll"

then deleted it. Rebooted. Back up... still no luck. "OBS Virtual Camera" is still a phantom option in Zoom and Discord.

[nonplayer]

Okay more sleuthing. I realized I didn't have "entire string" checked on registry searches. I found the following location matches for "OBS Virtual Camera":

Computer\HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{860BB310-5D01-11d0-BD3B-00A0C911CE86}

Computer\HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{A3FCE0F5-3493-419F-958A-ABA1250EC20B}

Computer\HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\WOW6432Node\CLSID\{860BB310-5D01-11d0-BD3B-00A0C911CE86}

Computer\HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\WOW6432Node\CLSID\{A3FCE0F5-3493-419F-958A-ABA1250EC20B}

I renamed each of them to see which would change, and the third one was the culprit, at least as far as appearing in the camera selections. Each of these was connected to something called "VFW Capture Class Manager" which I am unsure of. Initial google searches also mention a lot of malware, but that's really not my area of expertise, so whatever.

Anyway, I removed those keys and no longer see the phantom camera.

[nonplayer]

Welp, nevermind. I reinstalled OBS 26 with the current release, and the camera came back. Is it now part of the core application?

[timjobutler]

@nonplayer Thanks for the tips on the registry keys.

A couple of the specific strings didn't match my system but using the search phrase "obs-camera" I was able to find all of the keys.

Deleting all keys with the phrase "obs-camera" removed the 4 OBS Cameras from Zoom.

Thanks all for your help.

[dzlandis]

I tried all of the suggested things above and I was unable to remove this program. Instead, I create another issue where I have another device called "nameless"! This stupid program won't let me remove it! I tried uninstalling it using this method:

regsvr32 /u "C:\Program Files\obs-studio\data\obs-plugins\win-dshow\obs-virtualcam-module32.dll" Both the 32bit and the 64bit versions.

Deleting it through the registry, and practically everything.

This one keeps popping up even after I delete it:

Computer\HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID{A3FCE0F5-3493-419F-958A-ABA1250EC20B}

Anything you can do to help me would be great.

Is this some type of malware or something and how do I get it off of my computer!!!

PS: This whole issue is happening in Zoom but it still hasn't removed from the tool bar in OBS.

Edit: I was able to remove the one called "nameless" but I still have the other one called "OBS Virtual Camera" there. For anybody who is having the same issue with the first part, I had to restart my computer and then that made the option to uninstall it appear in the regular Windows uninstall area. It also still appears in the tool area of OBS. I have since remove OBS completely after this issue and the camera still appears in Zoom. Any help to remove the "OBS Virtual Camera" is greatly appreciated.

**I just found this out: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/aae3b5ff00d18c0268799c4ad8b58f985e9bc281a08806398d771e62930ad514/community

"If you downloaded this from https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/obs-virtualcam.949/ it is likely a trojan from this output.

This version is available from the author directly, and scans clean, same version, same release date: https://github.com/Fenrirthviti/obs-virtual-cam/releases/tag/2.0.5

Note the file names are identical. Please delete the infected file before downloading to ensure you don't accidentally run it."

Any recommendations of how to deal with this?**

This is a big problem:

[TBorgert]

On Win10x64, I did a complete uninstall of OBS vrtualcam, ndi plugin, and OBS Studio itself. It left behind one single file:

C:\Program Files\obs-studio\data\obs-plugins\win-dshow\obs-virtualcam-module32.dll

This got my hopes up, as it seemed to match the criteria. So I ran:

regsvr32 /u "C:\Program Files\obs-studio\data\obs-plugins\win-dshow\obs-virtualcam-module32.dll"

then deleted it. Rebooted. Back up... still no luck. "OBS Virtual Camera" is still a phantom option in Zoom and Discord.

Run virtualcam-uninstall.bat as admin. It can be found in C:\Program Files\obs-studio\data\obs-plugins\win-dshow

https://obsproject.com/forum/threads/how-to-uninstall-obs-virtual-camera-this-is-messing-with-other-apps.131701/

[msalmasi]

I tried all of the suggested things above and I was unable to remove this program. Instead, I create another issue where I have another device called "nameless"! This stupid program won't let me remove it! I tried uninstalling it using this method:

regsvr32 /u "C:\Program Files\obs-studio\data\obs-plugins\win-dshow\obs-virtualcam-module32.dll" Both the 32bit and the 64bit versions.

Deleting it through the registry, and practically everything.

This one keeps popping up even after I delete it:

Computer\HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID{A3FCE0F5-3493-419F-958A-ABA1250EC20B}

Anything you can do to help me would be great.

Is this some type of malware or something and how do I get it off of my computer!!!

PS: This whole issue is happening in Zoom but it still hasn't removed from the tool bar in OBS.

Edit: I was able to remove the one called "nameless" but I still have the other one called "OBS Virtual Camera" there. For anybody who is having the same issue with the first part, I had to restart my computer and then that made the option to uninstall it appear in the regular Windows uninstall area. It also still appears in the tool area of OBS. I have since remove OBS completely after this issue and the camera still appears in Zoom. Any help to remove the "OBS Virtual Camera" is greatly appreciated.

**I just found this out: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/aae3b5ff00d18c0268799c4ad8b58f985e9bc281a08806398d771e62930ad514/community

"If you downloaded this from https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/obs-virtualcam.949/ it is likely a trojan from this output.

This version is available from the author directly, and scans clean, same version, same release date: https://github.com/Fenrirthviti/obs-virtual-cam/releases/tag/2.0.5

Note the file names are identical. Please delete the infected file before downloading to ensure you don't accidentally run it."

Any recommendations of how to deal with this?**

This is a big problem:

@dzlandis How did you remove the nameless camera? I still have this in my Zoom camera list, but nowhere else.

[dzlandis]

The nameless camera came back but the other one just vanished. Not sure.

[eiffeI]

Seen this on another forum but run virtualcam-uninstall.bat as admin. It can be found in C:\Program Files\obs-studio\data\obs-plugins\win-dshow

[greengo123]

On Win10x64, I did a complete uninstall of OBS vrtualcam, ndi plugin, and OBS Studio itself. It left behind one single file:

C:\Program Files\obs-studio\data\obs-plugins\win-dshow\obs-virtualcam-module32.dll

This got my hopes up, as it seemed to match the criteria. So I ran:

regsvr32 /u "C:\Program Files\obs-studio\data\obs-plugins\win-dshow\obs-virtualcam-module32.dll"

then deleted it. Rebooted. Back up... still no luck. "OBS Virtual Camera" is still a phantom option in Zoom and Discord.

They added a native virtual camera to the core application. No plugins needed.

Because of that, I ended up here looking up how to uninstall the plugin since it became redundant.

[greengo123]

On Win10x64, I did a complete uninstall of OBS vrtualcam, ndi plugin, and OBS Studio itself. It left behind one single file:

C:\Program Files\obs-studio\data\obs-plugins\win-dshow\obs-virtualcam-module32.dll

This got my hopes up, as it seemed to match the criteria. So I ran:

regsvr32 /u "C:\Program Files\obs-studio\data\obs-plugins\win-dshow\obs-virtualcam-module32.dll"

then deleted it. Rebooted. Back up... still no luck. "OBS Virtual Camera" is still a phantom option in Zoom and Discord.

They added a native virtual camera to the core application. No plugins needed.

Because of that, I ended up here looking up how to uninstall the plugin since it became redundant.

I was able to uninstall the plugin successfully. I'm sure there are some people here because they're looking up how to uninstall the plugin, so I'll just leave this here. https://www.advanceduninstaller.com/OBS-VirtualCam-version-1_1_2-a37249cae51089463f23f4c4198386b2-application.htm#:~:text=You%20can%20uninstall%20OBS-VirtualCam%20version%201.1.2%20by%20clicking,2.11%20MB%20%282208192%20bytes%29%20and%20is%20called%20obs32.exe.

[greengo123]

On Win10x64, I did a complete uninstall of OBS vrtualcam, ndi plugin, and OBS Studio itself. It left behind one single file:

C:\Program Files\obs-studio\data\obs-plugins\win-dshow\obs-virtualcam-module32.dll

This got my hopes up, as it seemed to match the criteria. So I ran:

regsvr32 /u "C:\Program Files\obs-studio\data\obs-plugins\win-dshow\obs-virtualcam-module32.dll"

then deleted it. Rebooted. Back up... still no luck. "OBS Virtual Camera" is still a phantom option in Zoom and Discord.

They added a native virtual camera to the core application. No plugins needed.

Because of that, I ended up here looking up how to uninstall the plugin since it became redundant.

I was able to uninstall the plugin successfully. I'm sure there are some who came here looking for https://www.advanceduninstaller.com/OBS-VirtualCam-version-1_1_2-a37249cae51089463f23f4c4198386b2-application.htm#:~:text=You%20can%20uninstall%20OBS-VirtualCam%20version%201.1.2%20by%20clicking,2.11%20MB%20%282208192%20bytes%29%20and%20is%20called%20obs32.exe.

[champ475]

Got to C:\Program Files\obs-studio\data\obs-plugins\win-dshow. Run virtualcam-uninstall.bat as admin.

I tried and found it the easiest and successful way to disable or delete the OBS Virtual Camera

[ananthvardhanvarma]

Okay more sleuthing. I realized I didn't have "entire string" checked on registry searches. I found the following location matches for "OBS Virtual Camera":

Computer\HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{860BB310-5D01-11d0-BD3B-00A0C911CE86}

Computer\HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{A3FCE0F5-3493-419F-958A-ABA1250EC20B}

Computer\HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\WOW6432Node\CLSID\{860BB310-5D01-11d0-BD3B-00A0C911CE86}

Computer\HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\WOW6432Node\CLSID\{A3FCE0F5-3493-419F-958A-ABA1250EC20B}

I renamed each of them to see which would change, and the third one was the culprit, at least as far as appearing in the camera selections. Each of these was connected to something called "VFW Capture Class Manager" which I am unsure of. Initial google searches also mention a lot of malware, but that's really not my area of expertise, so whatever.

Anyway, I removed those keys and no longer see the phantom camera.

I was facing an issue in chrome browser. This OBS-Camera is not allowing me to use my web cam. After I removed these four files from the Registry I was able to fix the issue. Thanks man for helping me out

[greengo123]

Allow me to shed some light on the subject https://twitter.com/OBSProject/status/1338651402747457539?s=19

Keep in mind that the native virtual cam mentioned is also on the Windows version

[Luo-Chang]

According to the virtualcam-uninstall.bat located in "C:\Program Files\obs-studio\data\obs-plugins\win-dshow", their official way to uninstall Virtual Cam is the follows:

regsvr32.exe /u /s "C:\Program Files\obs-studio\data\obs-plugins\win-dshow\obs-virtualcam-module64.dll" regsvr32.exe /u /s "C:\Program Files\obs-studio\data\obs-plugins\win-dshow\obs-virtualcam-module32.dll"

[anggianggi]

Just go to C:\Program Files\obs-studio\data\obs-plugins\win-dshow find virtualcam-uninstall.bat file, right click the file and then run as administrator. Cheers

[msaidf]

@dzlandis : how exactly did you remove the nameless virtual camera?

Edit: I was able to remove the one called "nameless" but I still have the other one called "OBS Virtual Camera" there.