How to include Replay Buffer in a recording?

[michaelpece]

Hi guys.

I have searched around for a while to try and figure this out on my own, but cannot find a conclusive answer.

I'm fully aware of how the replay buffer works. I just wanted to know if I turn the replay buffer on, and then if I encounter a situation I wish to start recording - including that from the buffer - how do you do that into a single clip?

It's difficult to explain clearly.. Lets say I have the recording buffer set to 15 seconds. Lets say I get into a gunfight in-game. I want to record that gunfight going forward, but also want that clip to include the last 10 seconds from the buffer. But as far as I can tell, the replay buffer clip is completely separate to the 'start recording' clip? You have to 'start recording' to capture future events and then 'save replay buffer' to record the past events, then combine them in editing? You can't get them into a single clip within OBS? I want to be able to start recording when I press a button, and have that recording include the last 15 seconds too.

Please let me know if further clarification of the question is needed.

Thanks in advance.

 

[michaelpece]

I only found one other instance of someone else wanting this feature (if it's not a feature already)

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[DAveShillito]

I can definitely see a use case for this where you are controlling recording programatically using OBSWebsockets.

i.e. if you have OBS running recording the operation of a program, or even a physical production line, and an error occurs. The controlling system could start recording to show what then occurs, and also shows the preroll buffer leading up to the error (i.e. what caused it).

Are there any frames lost when starting the recordings?
i.e. if we were to issue a "StartRecording" and "SaveReplayBuffer" using a "ExecuteBatch" would concatenating these two files be frame accurate?