Issue With New Hybrid MP4 Files

[edwardgreene1]

Hey everyone. I switched over to recording my streams in .mkv to the Hybrid .mp4 format in part to get some of the new chapter features, but also because it was said to have the crash protection of MKVs. Since switching I've had OBS crash twice while recording, and both times I am able to view the recording in VLC but cannot import it into any video editors, be it Resolve or Adobe Premiere or even the Microsoft Clip Creator thing. Does anyone know what might be causing that or how to get around it? All the other Hybrid MP4s I've recorded have come out great. I'm including the crash reports from both streams and the log from the most recent. Thanks!

 

[PaiSand]

Both crashes happen for different things and most probably the plugins you have installed are at fault.
If you need this plugins you have to reinstall the previous version you where using before updating. If you don't use the plugins or aren't important but you want the features on the latest OBS version, then remove every single plugin.
15 plugins. 15.

Then run the Auto-configuration Wizar, yada yada yada (sorry, wrote this like a gazillion times), restart OBS, don't change anything, test as is.

 

[edwardgreene1]

Yeah, sorry if I wasn't clear. I'm not looking for the reason why OBS crashed. I was wondering why I couldn't put the recordings from the crashed stream into a video editing program even though I could watch them in VLC, when in the past that wasn't an issue with an MKV when OBS crashed while recording. Looking to see if maybe I misunderstood what the Hybrid MP4 format was supposed to do or if there is something more wrong with my files.

 

[Suslik V]

"Hybrid" was developed to show to Windows File Explorer's like programs that media file has some duration. Otherwise it would report either 0 or at least few seconds length despite media can be few hours. Later, there was decision to use this "new" format to relax some restrictions for supported codecs in OBS for ISO based media containers.
Tech details:

Native Hybrid MP4 Muxer by derrod · Pull Request #10608 · obsproject/obs-studio

Description Adds a native MP4 muxer/output to OBS. Also adds a buffered file serializer, based on ffmpeg-mux I/O buffer implementation and seeking support for the existing array serializer Current...

github.com

As for the import of broken (aborted) recordings, OBS has remux feature (main menu File > Remux Recordings) - you may try it before importing your files to editors. Try to choose .mov media container for the remuxed destination, because standard set of the codecs for "mp4" doesn't include PCM.