I lost a video for clicking "stop recording" twice. Is it feaxible?

[Alejandro__]

Hi all,

I was recording an event and after it finished I clicked "stop recording". By mistake, I clicked again, so it forced to be closed, and as a result I have only half of the event in the output file.

Is it fixable? Is the original recording somehow somewhere?

Regards,
Alejandro

 

[R1CH]

If you recorded directly to MP4, the finalization process was cancelled so the recording is lost. This is why it is never recommended to record to MP4, record to a crash safe format like MKV and remux afterwards.

 

[Alejandro__]

I cancelled the finalization process but I recorded it to a MKV video file. Does this change anything?

 

[R1CH]

Yes, the MKV should be mostly intact. If the encoder was lagging behind realtime though it may have missed recording whatever was still in the buffer. A tool like MKVMerge may help to extract valid audio / video from the MKV.

 

[Alejandro__]

Thank you very much I will try that

 

[Alejandro__]

Hi R1CH,

I believe there is no solution because when trying to extract the audio only, it is only 50 minutes long (as the incomplete MKV file I already have)

After some research I believe now that the problem was this:

i received this message

So since the finalization process was cancelled and as the encoding was overloaded, I guess it didn't "completed" the output file.

Does that make sense?