Black screen if I minimize Power Point

[Mariajo]

hello,

I have a scene in my OBS to capture the window of PowerPoint:exe. But if I minimize the windows of Power Point it disappears from OBS and I have a black screen. I think it wasn't like that before... It's a long time without using OBS, but I think before the Power Point windows was always in OBS, no matter if it was minimized on the bar. How is it work? I have to have it maximazied to capture it? Or can I find a way to have it all the time visible, no matter if it's maximized o minimized?

Thak you so much!

Maria Jose

 

[Suslik V]

OBS excludes minimized windows from the capture list of Window Capture source. Also, some programs halts any UI rendering when minimized.

Anyway, the behavior of OBS Window Capture depends on selected method (BITBLT or WGC). So, maybe long time ago you had other capturing method selected in older OBS, and had older programs to capture, and had older OS.

Tech details:

obs-studio/plugins/win-capture/window-capture.c at 8b0e9748daa03e692c97371fe18e72c8905750ce · obsproject/obs-studio

OBS Studio - Free and open source software for live streaming and screen recording - obsproject/obs-studio

github.com

 

[Mariajo]

Thank you very much, Suslik!