Use Zoom's Virtual Background with Discord/Google Meet/Skype/LINE

Problem:

• How can one use Zoom’s superior virtual background options with Discord/Google Meet/Skype/LINE, on a Mac?

Solution:

• Download and install OBS (which will provide the “virtual camera” for us here)
• Enable OBS permission to record Zoom:
  • Settings → Security & Privacy → Screen Recording and checking the box for OBS
• Open Zoom, set up virtual background as you’d like, and start a meeting by yourself
• Open OBS and add “Windows Capture” as an input source
  • Create New → Choose Zoom Meeting as the Window in the dropdown
• Adjust Zoom window as you’d like in OBS (I like to make it larger so that you don’t see the Zoom control buttons)
• Click Start Virtual Camera

Discord:

• Settings → Voice & Video → Video Settings → Choosse OBS Virtual Camera in Camera dropdown
• If you don’t see OBS Virtual Camera as an option, “fix” Discord by entering below in terminal.app:

sudo codesign --remove-signature /Applications/Discord.app/Contents/Frameworks/Discord\ Helper\ (GPU).app /Applications/Discord.app/Contents/Frameworks/Discord\ Helper\ (Plugin).app /Applications/Discord.app/Contents/Frameworks/Discord\ Helper\ (Renderer).app /Applications/Discord.app/Contents/Frameworks/Discord\ Helper.app

Other Apps:

• I tested this and it works with Google Meet, Skype, and LINE.
• This system should theoretically work with any video chat/conferencing systems that accept virtual cameras.

Flow Club:

• Sadly it seems to use too much CPU this way and is unusably laggy XSplit VCam does work but it doesn’t render the “edges” as nicely as Zoom…

Credit:

• NeoCryptor’s NO GREEN SCREEN NO PROBLEM - OBS LIFE HACK video for the idea of using Zoom and OBS together
• These OBS forum threads for solving Mac-specific problems:
  • https://obsproject.com/forum/threads/obs-virtual-cam-to-discord.133437/
  • https://obsproject.com/forum/threads/obs-cannot-capture-zoom-window-and-others.137576/