Feature request : Allow OBS to shut down after recording

[frederic1]

Hello, grats for your awesome software.

I use the very useful "TOOLS > OUTPUT TIMER" but it would be great if there were a tick box to shutdown OBS after recording.

Thank you !

 

[frederic1]

It would be a great feature.

 

[koala]

And how should OBS know when in your opinion the recording is done?

 

[frederic1]

Read my previous message. "TOOLS > OUTPUT TIMER" allows to define the duration of the recording.

A tick box "shut down OBS after recording" would be great.

 

[JohnInStockie]

You can do this if you use a tool like Touch Portal, or a stream deck, Lioranboard or similar. I have a KILL OBS button in Touch Portal that executes a windows batch file that then in turn kills OBS.

If you wanted to with Touch Portal, you can hook this to a scene change and timer event.

This is the script out of the batch file if you are interested in this approach.....

taskkill /f /im "obs64.exe"

... and thats it :)

 

[frederic1]

Thanks a lot for your help JohnInStockie. Does it close OBS cleanly or kill it ?

 

[JohnInStockie]

Hi Fred, it seems to just kill it, so I use Touch Portal button to stop stream, stop record and stop replay buffer, wait for 2s and then executes the batch file, that seem to work well

 

[JohnInStockie]

Here I have my main control screen, lot of buttons …

My process is, I click my Exit Button above, this performs these actions, goes to my EXIT scene which plays a ‘Thanks for watching’ and ‘Subscribe’ and stuff.

(It also copies the folder with the main recording in and the subfolder with my clips into another folder for later)

I then click the KILL OBS button which does this

Job done

 

[frederic1]

Thanks a lot for your help !