Question / Help 7 seconds of Darkness

[TheKa0zFact0r]

When I try to do a window recording of any game, I go to check the final product and I get 7 seconds of black and mute. I only just started and there may be a way around this, but I don't know it. I'm also on windows 7, which is a supports of OBS, and I don't know whats up. Pls help.

 

[Trevpartin]

I have exactly the same problem
Just putting this here as a bump so that someone can help.

 

[Trevpartin]

Windows 7, I record 1 minute of League of Legends and when I look at the the video in Movie Maker I see 7 seconds of a black screen.

 

[Harold]

And do the videos play back properly in VLC?

 

[DEDRICK]

Make sure the game is actually displaying in the preview when you start recording. When I use Game Capture and switch games it takes a few seconds before it hooks, leaving me with only my overlay and blackness.

 

[Trevpartin]

What's VLC lol i am a noob at all these recording software stuffs.

 

[Trevpartin]

In the FLV thing it doesnt work, 7 secs of black.

 

[DoAGoldeneye]

Best to add a log file so the devs can analyze it and see if something whacky is going on behind the scenes.

 

[Trevpartin]

I changed it to MP4 and tweaked some settings and it works. Thanks for your help erryjuan :D

 

[Harold]

Saving directly to mp4 is not recommended due to it corrupting the entire file with ANY non-graceful shut down of the encoding process.

 

[Osiris]

Although with obs-mp, a crash with the software won't corrupt it.