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Use Camlane with Zoom, Meet, Teams, OBS and Discord

Connect your phone to Camlane, then choose “Camlane Camera” (Linux) or “OBS Virtual Camera” (Windows) as the camera and “Camlane Microphone”, “CABLE Output” or “BlackHole 2ch” as the microphone in the app's video and audio settings.

Steps

  1. Connect the phone first

    Start the Camlane desktop app and connect the phone, so the virtual camera exists before your video app looks for cameras.

  2. Open the app's device settings

    In Zoom, Settings, Video and Audio. In Meet, the gear icon. In Teams, Settings, Devices. In Discord, User Settings, Voice and Video. In OBS, add a source.

  3. Choose the camera

    Pick Camlane Camera on Linux or OBS Virtual Camera on Windows. On macOS the virtual camera isn't available yet.

  4. Choose the microphone

    Pick Camlane Microphone on Linux, CABLE Output on Windows, or BlackHole 2ch on macOS.

  5. Restart the app if the camera is missing

    Apps list cameras when they start. Quit the app fully, including from the tray, and open it again.

Names by platform

Camera Microphone
Linux Camlane Camera Camlane Microphone
Windows OBS Virtual Camera CABLE Output (VB-Audio Virtual Cable)
macOS (beta) Not available yet BlackHole 2ch

Zoom

  • Camera: Settings → Video → Camera. Turn on HD and Original ratio for 1080p. If you mirror on the phone, turn off Mirror my video in Zoom.
  • Microphone: Settings → Audio → Microphone. With Camlane’s studio audio on, turn off Automatically adjust microphone volume so Zoom doesn’t fight the level.
  • Zoom keeps running in the tray; quit it from there if the camera is missing.

Google Meet

In the browser: the gear icon → Video → camera, and Audio → microphone. Chrome caches the device list, so reload the tab if you connected the phone after opening Meet. To share the phone as a second view (a document or a whiteboard), Meet’s “present a camera” works, because Camlane is an ordinary camera.

Microsoft Teams

Settings → Devices → Camera and Microphone. Teams on Linux runs in the browser and uses the browser’s device list.

OBS Studio

  • Linux: Sources → + → Video Capture Device (V4L2) → Device: Camlane Camera. Set the resolution to match the phone and turn Buffering off. Add the sound with Audio Input Capture → Camlane Microphone.
  • Windows: OBS can’t read its own virtual camera. Run camlane-cli --preview-port 8089 and add http://127.0.0.1:8089/preview as a Browser or Media Source.
  • Several angles: with picture in picture, side by side or the auto-director in Camlane, “Camlane Camera” already carries the program, so OBS needs only one source. On Linux each phone is also its own camera. See several phones.
  • Settings for streaming: 1080p60 at 10–14 Mbit/s on 5 GHz, manual ISO and shutter (1/120 under LED lights at 60 fps), fixed white balance, stabilisation off, phone plugged in.

Discord

User Settings → Voice & Video → Camera and Input Device. Discord sends 720p30 unless you have Nitro. If you play music, turn off Discord’s own noise suppression, which can cut it.

Browsers

Any site that asks for a camera sees Camlane like a webcam. To test quickly, open a webcam or microphone test page and choose Camlane. Flatpak and Snap browsers on Linux need camera permission; see the Linux guide.

Keep it in sync

Camlane typically adds 30–80 ms on 5 GHz Wi-Fi. Call apps add 50–100 ms of their own. If the picture looks fine in Camlane’s preview but lags in the call, the delay is the app’s, not the phone’s. In OBS, turning buffering off on the V4L2 source removes most of the extra delay.

Something not covered here? Email hello@camlane.live.