Bug Report Can't start OBS: Failed to initialize video: Unspecified error

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linkviii

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Well it ran on ubuntu which is why I brought it up. I only tested making a short desktop recording but it worked there and wouldn't launch on mint. Maybe ubuntu emulates support. Maybe Mint just sucks at graphic drivers (it does). But again, its of no consequence to me if obs can run on that computer. Just an oddity. No need to waste any time on it. If there's interest I'll check on it Monday. Thanks.
 
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linkviii

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So finally got around to checking opengl versions on the different OSs on the same machine.

Mint:
OpenGL vendor string: X.Org
OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on AMD RV610
OpenGL core profile version string: 3.1 (Core Profile) Mesa 10.1.3
OpenGL core profile shading language version string: 1.40
OpenGL core profile context flags: (none)
OpenGL core profile extensions:
OpenGL version string: 3.0 Mesa 10.1.3
OpenGL shading language version string: 1.30
OpenGL context flags: (none)
OpenGL extensions:

Ubuntu gnome:
OpenGL vendor string: X.Org
OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on AMD RV610
OpenGL core profile version string: 3.3 (Core Profile) Mesa 10.3.2
OpenGL core profile shading language version string: 3.30
OpenGL core profile context flags: (none)
OpenGL core profile profile mask: core profile
OpenGL core profile extensions:
OpenGL version string: 3.0 Mesa 10.3.2
OpenGL shading language version string: 1.30
OpenGL context flags: (none)
OpenGL extensions:
OpenGL ES profile version string: OpenGL ES 3.0 Mesa 10.3.2
OpenGL ES profile shading language version string: OpenGL ES GLSL ES 3.0
OpenGL ES profile extensions:

Strangely mint already had glxinfo installed and ubuntu didn't.

So yeah, just an oddity that the mint install didn't support 3.3. Sorry for bumping the thread.
 
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Amarildo

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I also get this error.

openSUSE 13.2 X86_64

AMD Radeon R9 270X
Driver 14.5
4 GB DDR3 Corsair Vengeance 1600MHz
Athlon II X2 250 @3.6 GHz
ASRock N68 VS3 UCC

Link for the openSUSE program: http://software.opensuse.org/package/obs-studio

Image of the error
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Anyone found a solution?
 
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Amarildo

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Radzaquiel said:
@Amarildo : it's an old version I compiled (& should erase), use the one available in Packman repositories.
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Thanks! I installed the one from Pakman and it now runs. I can't it right now because I just installed openSUSE and am still downloading my games, but later I'll tell how it runs.

Thanks for this great piece of software, keep up your awesome work.

Regards,
Amarildo.
 
HOLD8

HOLD8

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I use windows 64 bit I think and I'm getting the same message :/ I don't speak your language though... As in... Computer competent xD... I can provide details in order to help me fix it but I may need instructions :I Please help!
 
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reydeljuego12345

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i have himself error with obs in Linux Mint 17 over to make a upgrade of system, I was trying of reinstall obs with the ppa:obs-project/obs-studio-unstable but i dont give a solution, himself, i tried give with a solution in this thread but maybe do not be solution.

someone have some solution?.

sorry for my english i dont know much english, i am so pretty bad with others language XD.
 
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SHOT(by)GUN

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try running
Code: 
ldconfig
as root

ldconfig - configure dynamic linker run-time bindings
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Once I added running that command to my obs debian easy compile script, I no longer get that message.
 
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badware

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Since this version isn't working can we just go back to the working last version until it's fixed? like fix it so it will apt will update to the last working version.
 
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badware

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I had an upgrade of my NVida card and the old version of OBS was working but then I was notified of an update for OBS and when I updated it no longer works. It gave me the error that's posted in this thread and other threads as well.
 
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CyanYT

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I'm getting this error as well. I've got the ffmpeg downloaded, and OBS gives me this error whether i launch from the desktop or from terminal.

Linux Mint 17.2
Video Card: AMD Radeon R9 270
 
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Dave Mayo

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OBS fails to start on xubuntu 14.04. It may be that my computer is too old as I read in another thread

What are the sys requirements to run OBS ?

If that is not the problem why didn't it run. Below is a copy of the terminal output trying to run OBS.

The output says version is OBS 0.12.2 (linux)

Code: 
david@djm:~$ obs
Attempted path: share/obs/obs-studio/locale/en-US.ini
Attempted path: /usr/share/obs/obs-studio/locale/en-US.ini
Attempted path: share/obs/obs-studio/locale.ini
Attempted path: /usr/share/obs/obs-studio/locale.ini
Attempted path: share/obs/obs-studio/themes/Default.qss
Attempted path: /usr/share/obs/obs-studio/themes/Default.qss
Attempted path: share/obs/obs-studio/license/gplv2.txt
Attempted path: /usr/share/obs/obs-studio/license/gplv2.txt
info: Processor: 1 logical cores
info: Processor: Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.53GHz
info: Physical Memory: 487MB Total
info: Kernel Version: Linux 3.13.0-68-generic
info: Distribution: "Ubuntu" "14.04"
QObject::connect: invalid null parameter
info: OBS 0.12.2 (linux)
info: ---------------------------------
info: ---------------------------------
info: audio settings reset:
    samples per sec: 44100
    speakers:        2
    buffering (ms):  1000
error: X Error: GLXBadFBConfig
error: Failed to create OpenGL context.
error: Failed to create context!
error: device_create (GL) failed
error: Failed to initialize video:  Unspecified error
info: Freeing OBS context data
QPaintDevice::metrics: Device has no metric information
info: == Profiler Results =============================
info: run_program_init: 23106.4 ms
info:  ┣OBSApp::AppInit: 70.888 ms
info:  ┃ ┗OBSApp::InitLocale: 31.987 ms
info:  ┗OBSApp::OBSInit: 1313.79 ms
info:    ┣obs_startup: 50.778 ms
info:    ┗OBSBasic::OBSInit: 644.629 ms
info:      ┣OBSBasic::InitBasicConfig: 12.544 ms
info:      ┣OBSBasic::ResetAudio: 0.508 ms
info:      ┗OBSBasic::ResetVideo: 609.15 ms
info: obs_hotkey_thread(25 ms): min=0.315 ms, median=0.733 ms, max=114.199 ms, 99th percentile=4.519 ms, 99.7106% below 25 ms
info: audio_thread(Audio): min=0.025 ms, median=0.033 ms, max=2.042 ms, 99th percentile=0.085 ms
info: =================================================
info: == Profiler Time Between Calls ==================
info: obs_hotkey_thread(25 ms): min=25.45 ms, median=25.841 ms, max=139.475 ms, 1.44928% within ±2% of 25 ms (0% lower, 98.5507% higher)
info: =================================================
info: Number of memory leaks: 124
david@djm:~$

All the files listed
Code: 
Attempted path: share/obs/obs-studio/locale/en-US.ini
Attempted path: /usr/share/obs/obs-studio/locale/en-US.ini
Attempted path: share/obs/obs-studio/locale.ini
Attempted path: /usr/share/obs/obs-studio/locale.ini
Attempted path: share/obs/obs-studio/themes/Default.qss
Attempted path: /usr/share/obs/obs-studio/themes/Default.qss
Attempted path: share/obs/obs-studio/license/gplv2.txt
Attempted path: /usr/share/obs/obs-studio/license/gplv2.txt
are installed and read access is for all users
 
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Dave Mayo

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Code: 
david@djm:~$ glxinfo | grep OpenGL
OpenGL vendor string: Intel Open Source Technology Center
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Intel(R) 865G x86/MMX/SSE2
OpenGL version string: 1.3 Mesa 10.1.3
OpenGL extensions:
david@djm:~$

If OpenGL is the problem is there a way to run OBS without OpenGL as I'm not trying to record 3D games.
 
shimmyshack

shimmyshack

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Same issue, working 0.11.2 -> upgrade to 0.12.0, 'error initializing....' same as elsewhere and previous posters.

OS X 10.11.1
Intel Iris Pro 1536 MB

smurf:~ arewethereyet$ glxinfo | grep OpenGL
OpenGL vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
OpenGL renderer string: NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M OpenGL Engine
OpenGL version string: 2.1 NVIDIA-10.6.47 310.42.05f01
OpenGL shading language version string: 1.20
OpenGL extensions:

reinstalled twice, no dice.

grabbed 0.11.2 from
https://github.com/jp9000/obs-studio/releases/download/0.11.2/obs-0.11.2-installer.dmg

installed, works.
 
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