I don't understand what is the purpose of the option under Advanced -> Video since from all my testing no matter what you do, when the Colour Format is set to BGRA the video files will still be recorded in YUV 4:2:0. Shouldn't it be recording in BGRA under this mode or the very least record in YUV 4:4:4
Confused about the purpose of BGRA
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koala
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If the encoder isn't able to encode color format BGRA, it will encode in some format it knows. So you need to choose a proper encoder. If you use simple output mode and as quality "lossless quality", the utvideo software codec will be used, and this will record the full video data. I don't know if the A layer is included (transparency), but the visible colors definitely will.
That's what confuses me because my understanding is that either you do that or specifically pick custom output (FFmpeg) and add "colorspace=0" to the video encoder settings which is two really obtuse ways to get it to actually do something, and otherwise it seem to always just default back to recording in YUV 4:2:0, instead of something like YUV 4:4:4 which would be closer.
Suslik V
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01:19:01.844: [x264 encoder: 'advanced_video_recording'] settings:
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01:19:01.857: [ffmpeg muxer: 'adv_file_output'] Writing file 'W:/Game Capture/OBS/2025-08//Dag 20 01-19-01.mp4'...Advanced settings in OBS is not for casual (or everyday) use. Default in OBS is NV12 format. This is best for compatibility. In my opinion, if user made mistake - it should be easily visible, not masked with "very close by its features".