Question / Help Files are corrupted?! (Repost after two days of No reply)

[Sir Jensen]

Repost of this, it's been two days, no reply?

Okay, so I record Minecraft videos using OBS. I've used it for quite some time and have not had many problems with it. The only thing, is that occasionally, one of my recorded files just seem to corrupt. Now, I'm not sure if it's because my storage space may have been out of room, or if it was the recorder being messed up. I just recorded something yesterday, and now today I try to look at my file, and it says "Windows Media Player cannot play the file. The Player might not support the file type or might not support the codec that was used to compress the file." Literally nothing will play this file. So that 1-2 hours of footage is completely gone, because of some mystery that I have no idea about. Please help me, I really do not want this file gone and I want to know if there is any way I can fix it if it actually is corrupted. Thanks.

Here are the logs: https://gist.github.com/184e0c0456d47588933e

If that doesn't show anything, maybe these?: https://gist.github.com/db2e22078f033337c8a9

 

[dssdassw]

Have you tried playing the file with VLC media player? In my experience this media player has been able to play nearly anything; even files WMP deems "unplayable".

 

[Sir Jensen]

Just tried it with that, and it said this:

"VLC can't recognize the input's format:

The format of 'file:///C:/Users/Sir%20Jensen/Desktop/Corrupted%20Recorded%20File.mp4' cannot be detected. Have a look at the log for details."

And yes, I did name it "Corrupted Recorded File" by the way. Anyways, I'm really not sure what to do. Obviously the format is messed up in the footage but I can not understand why, and I can only hope that it can be fixed as that was around 1 hour of footage. Basically all I did was normally record my videos like all the others, but this one just wont play. I test recorded today and it worked just fine. :/

 

[Harold]

If you're saving them as mp4 at record time, you're asking for trouble.

The MP4 container format is EXTREMELY prone to losing the entire file whenever the encoding process shuts down in a non-graceful manner.

If you did indeed save as mp4 directly, the footage is lost.

 

[FerretBomb]

And this is why you save to FLV, and remux to MP4 later if you need that.

 

[Sir Jensen]

Would changing the file from FLV to MP4 lessen the quality?

 

[Osiris]

No, it is just a container.