Help !!!

[ruthenoh]

I was recording a video on OBS and a warning about low storage popped up and the recording ended.i cleared space and continue recording ,now I can only find the last recording, how do I recover the first recording that ended abruptly, I wasn't saved in my system.

 

[Harold]

What recording format did you have selected?

 

[ruthenoh]

What recording format did you have selected?

Mp4

 

[Harold]

then when you find the file, it will be unplayable. You need to be saving to mkv to prevent this issue.

 

[khaver]

MP4 format requires a timestamp index of the file in the header. This is written when recording stops. It allows seeking in the file easily. If some sort of error happens before this index is written, the video is unplayable. The MKV format writes the timestamps into the stream while it's recording. If an error occurs before stopping the recording, the file can still be played but seeking is harder because the player has to calculate the timestamp locations on the fly while it's playing.

 

[ruthenoh]

MP4 format requires a timestamp index of the file in the header. This is written when recording stops. It allows seeking in the file easily. If some sort of error happens before this index is written, the video is unplayable. The MKV format writes the timestamps into the stream while it's recording. If an error occurs before stopping the recording, the file can still be played but seeking is harder because the player has to calculate the timestamp locations on the fly while it's playing.

then when you find the file, it will be unplayable. You need to be saving to mkv to prevent this issue.where can I recover the file?

Is it stored in any particular place I can retrieve from?

 

[R1CH]

OBS tries to detect low disk space and terminates the recording before the disk is full to prevent it from being unplayable, however if something else is also filling up the disk this might fail. The recording should be in the directory you configured for recordings. You can check the log files from earlier sessions to see where that was.

 

[ruthenoh]

OBS tries to detect low disk space and terminates the recording before the disk is full to prevent it from being unplayable, however if something else is also filling up the disk this might fail. The recording should be in the directory you configured for recordings. You can check the log files from earlier sessions to see where that was.

Thank you, this was very helpful.
I saw it in the log file as text how do I get it back as video

 

[Harold]

Saving directly to mp4 has the mp4 file itself still in the recordings folder, BUT it is unusable.