No virtual camera available with OBS

Hello,

When starting OBS I do not have the virtual camera button available. I am using FreeBSD 14.2-RELEASE-p2 and have the USB camera configured in /etc/rc.conf:

Code:
webcamd_enable="YES"
webcamd_0_flags="-d ugen1.7 -N vendor-0x046d-Logitech-StreamCam -S B33B2915 -M 0"

I am starting the loopback device with:
sudo webcamd -B -c v4l2loopback

I am in the webcamd group and the camera itself seems to work fine with OBS. If I start obs with the virtualcam flag I get an error:

obs --startvirtualcam --verbose

...
debug: Loading module: linux-v4l2.so
warning: v4l2loopback not installed, virtual camera not registered
...


I seem to have a v4l2loopback device as well as the webcam itself.
v4l2-ctl --list-devices

Dummy video device (0x0000) (platform:v4l2loopback-000):
/dev/video2

Logitech StreamCam (usb-/dev/usb-/dev/usb):
/dev/video0
/dev/video1


I also have /usr/local/lib/obs-plugins/linux-v4l2.so installed.

I must be missing something as I seem to have all of the elements to make this work, but yet it is not working. Help!
 
Better late than never... if you compile the most recent version from ports, it seems to work. I got it to run the virtual camera and managed to access it within OBS.

Word of caution however: I did not (yet) manage to get it working in Chrome or other applications though...
 
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