Question / Help File didn't record, how can I avoid this happening again?

AeitZean

AeitZean

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I just recorded 40 mins of Binding of Isaac Rebirth lets play. I already recorded one episode that worked fine, and this one looked like it was working perfectly, bitrate and timer etc were fine. Then when I stopped the recording and looked for the file it wasn't there at all. I've got a sore throat from talking so much, and nothing to show for it.

Do I need to check the output folder when I start recording every time to ensure it is actually recording properly? That seems like a convoluted solution, I just expected that if the main window showed everything recording as normal it would be written to disk. Is this some obscure use case or bug I don't know about?

I'm hesitant to use OBS again if it's going to confuse or lie to me, X-Split has horrible overheads but I've never had it fail to write to disk.

Thanks in advance.

-AeitZean
 
Im positive, I only have hotkeys bound to start and stop recording, and it was definitely doing something as I said. Unless replay buffer has a default hotkey I don't know about, but I certainly didn't see one in the hotkey options. I'm pretty baffled.

Thanks for trying to help though!
 
Now that I think about it, I did close OBS rather quickly when I'd finished, but I'd checked that the stop record worked (went from bit-rate and timer, to clear), could it have deleted the file when i closed it too quickly? or could it have simply failed to write a file at any point, but not thrown an error?

I've re recorded what I wanted (by using the same seed), but i was sure to leave the recording file window open to check. Nothing actually seemed different this time except that the file appeared right from the start, and actually worked.

Thanks for reading this anyone who did :)
 
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