Question / Help .flv file error

[Kyan Cox]

There is something wrong with my OBS where whenever I'm done recording anything, the file is a .flv file and cannot be opened in anything(i.e. Sony Vegas, Movie Maker, Windows Media Player, etc.). I don't know why this is happening. The videos that are recorded are CS:GO videos. I made my OBS work with full-screen games, such as CS:GO, and whenever I preview it and tab out, I see CS:GO in the preview. I don't know if I touched something I wasn't supposed to in the settings, or I set something up wrong in the Sources, or even in the Scene. I just want to know what is wrong and know if it can be fixed.

Thanks!

 

[R1CH]

See https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/how-to-convert-flvs-to-mp4-fast-without-re-encoding.78/

 

[Kyan Cox]

See https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/how-to-convert-flvs-to-mp4-fast-without-re-encoding.78/

Can you change the file type in OBS or do you need to download whatever this is. Because you can change the file type on OBS Studio but I can't record fullscreen games on that.

 

[Antony Pain]

Hi Kyan, if you do the following then OBS will export video to .mp4.

- Open Open Broadcaster
- Open Settings
- Open Broadcast Settings
- Make sure the mode = File Output Only
- Swap ".flv" in the File Path field for ".mp4"
- OBS should now save your video as .mp4 and be usable in editing.

I was having the same issue in Premiere Pro CS5 as they discontinued support of .flv

 

[Harold]

Saving directly to MP4 is NOT RECOMMENDED.

If ANYTHING prevents the file from being finalized properly, the entire recording is rendered unrecoverably corrupt.

Save to FLV and remux afterwards.

 

[Boildown]

I normally record as .mp4 only when doing NVEnc encoding/recording, because for some reason OBS doesn't ever crash (for me) when doing NVEnc. When doing x264 it seems to crash a lot more frequently, so I'd always save that as .flv. Also, even when doing NVEnc .mp4, I'm still at risk of a power failure, Windows bug, or any number of low probability bad things that could ruin my save. Its a risk I take, but if your livelihood is on the line, you should save as .flv even if doing NVEnc.