Question / Help After recording through OBS, open the video and display a black screen？

[cayden2020]

Hi everyone, I have a question about OBS. See below:

I used a host computer without a display to record video, and found that the recorded video was black. But if I log in to the host remotely, there is no problem recording video. Is it necessary to keep the computer desktop visible? thank you all!

 

[Zeros.81]

As far as I know, if you use display capture / windows capture you must be logged in, with a monitor or similar attached. In other words, the GPU must be drawing the desktop in order to be captured by OBS.