antside
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Hello!
So I have recently acquired 5 usb cameras of the same model for a little camera system. I've wanted to use OBS to display all 5 cameras all at once but I've ran into an issue: every reboot, like for example after a power outage, the cameras will switch positions on the screen and sometimes 2 sources will try to access the same camera leading to a black screen. It seems the issue stems from the vendor not flashing different and unique serial numbers on each usb port of each camera. I cannot really do anything about that at this point sadly. So instead, I was wondering if I could point OBS to a video source using the static usb port address (something like 0000.0014.0000.005.000.000.000.000.000) since I do not plan to move the cameras around. It seems like a good workaround to me. I've managed to find that OBS assigns an ID to each source in the json scene file, but I cannot figure out how it assigns them or what the assignment actually represents, my knowledge in computers being pretty limited. I have found a few posts on the forum but none of them had a concrete solution. Does anyone have a fix or some ideas?
Thank you very much for reading, and do not hesitate to ask for more information.
So I have recently acquired 5 usb cameras of the same model for a little camera system. I've wanted to use OBS to display all 5 cameras all at once but I've ran into an issue: every reboot, like for example after a power outage, the cameras will switch positions on the screen and sometimes 2 sources will try to access the same camera leading to a black screen. It seems the issue stems from the vendor not flashing different and unique serial numbers on each usb port of each camera. I cannot really do anything about that at this point sadly. So instead, I was wondering if I could point OBS to a video source using the static usb port address (something like 0000.0014.0000.005.000.000.000.000.000) since I do not plan to move the cameras around. It seems like a good workaround to me. I've managed to find that OBS assigns an ID to each source in the json scene file, but I cannot figure out how it assigns them or what the assignment actually represents, my knowledge in computers being pretty limited. I have found a few posts on the forum but none of them had a concrete solution. Does anyone have a fix or some ideas?
Thank you very much for reading, and do not hesitate to ask for more information.
