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👋 hi. happy to be here

the obs virtual camera won't start. i get a pop-up with this exact message ->

Starting the output failed. Please check the log for details. Note: If you are using the NVENC or AMD encoders, make sure your video drivers are up to date.

everytime i try to start the virtual camera. i already tried:

1. updating the system with: doas pacman -Syu
2. installing intel graphic card drivers (my laptops model is UX3405MA)
3. changing the video encoder settings multiple times
4. reinstalling v4l2loopback
5. other basic stuff i don't remember

then at last i came across this forum thread: https://obsproject.com/forum/threads/obs-virtual-camera-failed-to-start-streaming-on-dev-video2-invalid-argument.184717/

and there they talk about how it is related to an issue in the application itself¿

so then i wanted to download a newer, pre-release version, because i read somewhere that it has the relevant bug fixes, but didn't know how (im guessing the only way to do t