Question / Help 17.2 Recording issue

[scott elliott]

Hi Guys/Girls
I have had no problem at all ever until yesterday and now my video files are not recording in any format that VLC player or Adobe Premiere can use, I have changed no setting since my last recording which was perfect 1080 recording so I am very confused, any help will be wonderful please.

Attached is screen shot of my last working video details on left and the new not working on the right.

 

[Harold]

Don't save directly to mp4.

 

[scott elliott]

Don't save directly to mp4.

I have recorded over 300 videos at the same setting of MP4 with no problems at all, plus all YouTube videos for OBS Studio suggest to use MP4, my Premiere software has had no problem ever and my PC has not changed either.

 

[Suslik V]

Please post a log with your issue! Here's how...
And don't use mkv.

Spoiler: why?

Unable to play a captured video

 

[Harold]

So you're citing one edge case to recommend not saving to mkv rather than me going for dozens of not-edge cases to recommend not saving directly to mp4.

 

[scott elliott]

This is my last log file

https://gist.github.com/810d44813e93fbcb056b71c365ea617a

 

[scott elliott]

So you're citing one edge case to recommend not saving to mkv rather than me going for dozens of not-edge cases to recommend not saving directly to mp4.

I think over 300 videos working perfectly is quite a good "case" lol, but I did try MKV and that did not work either.

 

[Harold]

You've had 300 cases of luck then.
If ANYTHING prevents an mp4 from finalizing properly, it is rendered unusable.

Try changing your bitrate control to CQP, CQP value of 15 profile to auto and see how it behaves.

 

[scott elliott]

You've had 300 cases of luck then.
If ANYTHING prevents an mp4 from finalizing properly, it is rendered unusable.

Try changing your bitrate control to CQP, CQP value of 15 profile to auto and see how it behaves.

And like i said MKV did not work either lol.

 

[Harold]

And what about the other settings I just gave you?

 

[Suslik V]

So you're citing one edge case to recommend not saving to mkv rather than me going for dozens of not-edge cases to recommend not saving directly to mp4.

Simply, do not force any format, because if something fails - result unpredictable. The density of errors per 1000 lines of code in opensource almost the same to the proprietary software. The mkv not so popular as mp4 thus the number of available tools (and devices) much smaller. As soon as you force users to use only mkv, you'll see rising errors report on this format. This is math - nothing more. And the 50/50 dispersion (mp4/mkv usage) could lower number of mp4 reports and increase mkv's.

Also, there is methods to write fragmented mp4/mov via custom muxer settings:Stopping recording never ends

@scott elliott can you upload the short recording sample that doesn't work for you and post the link to it?
About the settings, check your video driver (probably something updated without your knowing and hw encoder fails). If software x264 is works good, then the hw encoder is the core of the issue you see.

 

[Harold]

The mkv not so popular as mp4 thus the number of available tools (and devices) much smaller. As soon as you force users to use only mkv, you'll see rising errors report on this format.

FILE-> REMUX RECORDINGS exists for a reason.

 

[scott elliott]

Simply, do not force any format, because if something fails - result unpredictable. The density of errors per 1000 lines of code in opensource almost the same to the proprietary software. The mkv not so popular as mp4 thus the number of available tools (and devices) much smaller. As soon as you force users to use only mkv, you'll see rising errors report on this format. This is math - nothing more. And the 50/50 dispersion (mp4/mkv usage) could lower number of mp4 reports and increase mkv's.

Also, there is methods to write fragmented mp4/mov via custom muxer settings:Stopping recording never ends

@scott elliott can you upload the short recording sample that doesn't work for you and post the link to it?
About the settings, check your video driver (probably something updated without your knowing and hw encoder fails). If software x264 is works good, then the hw encoder is the core of the issue you see.

Hello
Link for a short video here -> https://www.dropbox.com/sh/a3oshx0smo4ua7l/AACOIQF5jjdNAZo2QPlSITjOa?dl=0

 

[Suslik V]

The encoder didn't work. Try Software x264.

 

[Harold]

Try with the settings from http://obsproject.com/forum/resourc...lity-recording-and-multiple-audio-tracks.221/ instead.

 

[scott elliott]

All is good with the world now as I have fixed the problem