aborting the "stopping recording..." process, can i recover the lost part of the video?

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Michele_Bardani

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hi,

i'm recording a video in mkv format. when i stopped the recording process the string "stopping recording.." appeared on the stopping recording button. after 20 minutes i clicked the stop recording button again and OBS saved only 20 minutes of the registration (total 3 hour recording)

is there a way to restart the saving process to recover the lost part of the video?

thanks
 
The log is the right one to see when happened what.

Unfortunately it seems that,
- at 10:34 the recording started,
- at 12:12 stopped already (that is 1h40m recording time only),
- at this time it was already said that >50% frames lost or late due to rendering lag,
- and nearly all (99.8%) of all frames skipped due to encoding problems.

That means that almost anything got lost. I think the resulting mkv file will be astonishing small.
(BTW: The decision to record to mkv file was the right one. Recording directly to mp4 make it even worse.)

And all that while you just tried to record 720p30. Uuuuh, that sounds nasty. Sorry, there must be something totally wrong with the capabilities of your machine. Is that an old laptop? It seems to be an 5th generation i7 with just 2 physical cores. Sounds (to be honest) weak.

To shorten the story: Have you made a test recording before the important 3hr recording?

With such amount of lagged and skipped frames at rendering and encoding stage i'm afraid that there is nothing to recover there. In general terms, rendering video and audio over minutes or hours must be done in _realtime_. That processes lead to high demand on the underlaying hardware in all terms: grabber, cpu, renderer, encoder, disk subsystem. (What couldn't rendered within strong time boundaries and then - undelayed - written to disk won't make it thru to the final file and will be lost forever. There is no "heaven" or miracle place to hold such data for delayed processing later...)
 
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Hi,

thanks for the reply. i don't make a recording test before, i use OBS rarely

but i think that i have stopped the process of saving recording on file mkv when i pressed the "stopping recording.." again

i don't know how OBS works, i think (i'had better to write i hope..) there is a buffer, or a reserved file, that is written by OBS during the recording process and, when the user stop to record, this file or buffer is converted to .mkv file.

i want to know if there is a way to restart the saving process to recover the lost part of the video that i'have interrupted when i'have clicked for the second time the button "stopping recording.."

i hope i have explained
 
Michele_Bardani said:
but i think that i have stopped the process of saving recording on file mkv when i pressed the "stopping recording.." again
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You have explained clearly, but you're wrong, sorry. There is no background saving to any kind of file buffer, unfortunately. It's acceptable that you wished so, but OBS didn't work that way. The reasons already written above.
(And to be sure: You didn't shut by pressing the Stopping-Button the 2nd time. It's hanging earlier already. There is a known problem within the quicksync encoder using the ICQ settings.)

But anyways: Most of your content is already lost _during_ processing. Sorry to have no better news for you. You better go and consult a technician or IT staff around, if possible. Again: Video recording is highly demanding your IT resources.
 

Hello everyone ,

I had the same problem today! Can someone plese check and help If I can recover the full registration?
I only have 19min on 1h and 45 min of meetting recorded, then while I was saving I accidentally cliccked the button save again and the process stopped and closed. SMH!

Please let me know if I can save the full meeting.
thank you
 
See yourself whats the issues:

Analyzer | OBS

OBS (Open Broadcaster Software) is free and open source software for video recording and live streaming. Stream to Twitch, YouTube and many other providers or record your own videos with high quality H264 / AAC encoding.
obsproject.com obsproject.com
 
wait this is the correct file , obs - log.
sorry
AS u can see I recorded from 10 to 12 am.

Let me know, if i can do somenthing , thank u very much.
 

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Hello there I had the same issue, this is the correct file , obs - log.

AS u can see I recorded from 10 to 12 am.

Let me know, if i can do somenthing , thank u very much.

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konsolenritter said:
See yourself whats the issues:

Analyzer | OBS

OBS (Open Broadcaster Software) is free and open source software for video recording and live streaming. Stream to Twitch, YouTube and many other providers or record your own videos with high quality H264 / AAC encoding.
obsproject.com obsproject.com
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Hi I just saw that the file I saved in .mkv is pretty big, but I saw only 19minutes. Is it possible that the rest of the recording is hidden?

thank you for your answer
 
What exactly means "pretty big" in figures?

It doesn't help much that you recorded from 10..12.
All your issues persist due to the same hardware as before?

Read by yourself, especially all the /red/ remarks saying there are serious(!) issues with your sessions:

Analyzer | OBS

OBS (Open Broadcaster Software) is free and open source software for video recording and live streaming. Stream to Twitch, YouTube and many other providers or record your own videos with high quality H264 / AAC encoding.
obsproject.com obsproject.com

It explains (as you can see) evenly why your recording (if any file exists) won't contain all the video material: Most of it will be lost due to hardware issues with the rendering and especially encoding, dropping most of the frames.

Your system is below minimum specs for OBS to run and may be too underpowered...
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(What is said about livestreaming is valid for recording as well in your case.)
 
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