Question / Help ACCESS TO OBS RECORDINGS

[jbtsta]

Hello all,

I hope you are well

I recently used OBS to record a zoom call which lasted upwards of 5 hours.

When I hit stop recording I could nit find the file in the save destination.

I have sufficient storage space.

is the reason that the file is not accessible in the save location because the length of the recording is very long and thus takes longer to render before saving into the destination ?

I hope i didnt pause the recording. I teally need this recording.

Thank you all.

Peace

 

[FerretBomb]

Download and install VLC (videolan.org). The default Windows media player, "Films and TV", is not associated with some of the recording formats OBS outputs by default.
You'd be looking for a file named with a date/timestamp by default; it'd be something like "2020-04-25_14-03-17.mkv" if it was recorded at 2:03pm today, and may not have an icon that looks like a video file (again, due to Films and TV not being a very good media player).

OBS does not need time to render, it records the video stream directly to disk.
Do be aware that if you were recording to MP4 and there was any issue at all before the file was finalized, it may be corrupted and irrecoverable... why a warning pops up when mp4 is selected. It's not a recording-safe format, and should NEVER be recorded to directly for any reason. MP4 keeps its indices at the end of the file, and if they don't get written out, the entire thing becomes useless digital garbage. If you weren't recording to mp4 though, no worries. Probably just the media player not being associated with the file type, as above. :)

 

[jbtsta]

Download and install VLC (videolan.org). The default Windows media player, "Films and TV", is not associated with some of the recording formats OBS outputs by default.
You'd be looking for a file named with a date/timestamp by default; it'd be something like "2020-04-25_14-03-17.mkv" if it was recorded at 2:03pm today, and may not have an icon that looks like a video file (again, due to Films and TV not being a very good media player).

OBS does not need time to render, it records the video stream directly to disk.
Do be aware that if you were recording to MP4 and there was any issue at all before the file was finalized, it may be corrupted and irrecoverable... why a warning pops up when mp4 is selected. It's not a recording-safe format, and should NEVER be recorded to directly for any reason. MP4 keeps its indices at the end of the file, and if they don't get written out, the entire thing becomes useless digital garbage. If you weren't recording to mp4 though, no worries. Probably just the media player not being associated with the file type, as above. :)

Thank you !!! I appreciate the response. Blessings to you.

Unfortunately, even after downloading VLC, I attempted to check the destination folder and I could not find the file. I made sure it was formatted to mkv.

I really appreciate the response though. Thank you.

 

[FerretBomb]

Try going into OBS' File menu, Show Recordings. Take a screenshot of the contents and paste it here, if you don't see any files with a name like described above.

 

[jbtsta]

It's not in Zoom meetings because I was not the host and the file that my cursor is hovering over is only 7 minutes in length whereas the file I am looking for should be upwards of 5 hours.

Thank you, though!!