Question / Help CANT SAVE INTO SSD!

[Corcheedos]

Hi I recently downloaded OBS, it's an amazing software due to the fact that it supports the NVIDIA codec thingy so it will baiscially have to lag when recording. The problem is that when it records and I playback the video, its started out for a second but then the video freezes, leaving me with just an image and clean audio. I think this is due to my HDD slow writing speed, so I would like to save this OBS into my ssd. Sadly I can't since the installer forces it to go straight to the program files folder! I don't know how to transfer it, so if anyone knows how to, please let me know,
Thanks! c:

 

[Jack0r]

I am confused, you can just choose a file path in the broadcast settings.
The OBS installation goes to your program files folder, but that does not mean you have to save video files there. Apart of that you can downloaded the binaries and extract them to where you want if you dont want to install OBS into program files.

 

[Corcheedos]

I am confused, you can just choose a file path in the broadcast settings.
The OBS installation goes to your program files folder, but that does not mean you have to save video files there. Apart of that you can downloaded the binaries and extract them to where you want if you dont want to install OBS into program files.

I know that, but every recorder uses something for it to WRITE the actual file. I have an HDD that it uses it to write, but it's very slow, but I want it to be saved into the SSD where it can write it ALOT faster.

 

[Lain]

I'd have to see a log file -- or perhaps the video file viewer you're using is bad, or you don't have the codecs? The hard drive shouldn't be the issue. What video player do you use? If you use windows media player for example you need codecs.

I'd probably like to see a very small video file where this issue occurs too.

 

[Corcheedos]

I'd have to see a log file -- or perhaps the video file viewer you're using is bad, or you don't have the codecs? The hard drive shouldn't be the issue. What video player do you use? If you use windows media player for example you need codecs.

I'd probably like to see a very small video file where this issue occurs too.

Video link of what occurs. I've tried using a new video playback software, I use the NVIDIA NVENC or however you spell it codec. I don't know where to get this ''log file'' from,

 

[FerretBomb]

https://obsproject.com/forum/threads/problem-make-sure-to-post-a-log-and-or-crash-dump-howto.97/

Also, you'll want to host the actual output video file itself somewhere (Google Drive, Dropbox, etc) so we can grab it and examine the file that OBS put out, not upload it to YouTube which will convert it into their own format and destroy the stuff we want to look at in the file itself.

You set the output directory in the OBS settings. OBS then encodes the video in system memory, then writes it out to that location. It doesn't buffer into a temporary file in its install directory. If you set the recording destination as a file on your SSD, it will write to the SSD and not involve your spinning-platter drive in the encoding/recording process at all, even for 'scratch space' to use an old Adobe term.