Question / Help Local recording corrupted after crash. Is there a way to fix it?

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Beanis

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So I host this podcast every thursday, and I record locally while streaming. The problem is that OBS has now crashed on me not only once, but twice, and my recordings are corrupt as a result. No matter what program I use to play it, I just get a message saying the file can't be rendered.

Is this a file header issue? Can it be fixed? I really need these files and I have no idea where to start in order to recover them.
 
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BtbN

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flv videos should not be corrupted because of a crash. mp4 would, which is why it got removed as possible recording output format.
Or do you mean _all_ your recordings, even the ones you were not currently recording during the crash are broken now?
 
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Beanis

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MP4 hasn't been removed? I can still save my recordings as MP4 in the "File Path" Browse section of the Broadcast Settings (version 0.625b). I wasn't aware that FLV was an option but I will definitely switch to that now to avoid this problem in the future.

The only corrupted recordings are the ones that were running while OBS has crashed. In my case that's happened twice, so I now have two MP4 recordings that I can't use.
 
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BtbN

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Yeah, it's only removed in the multiplatform version.
The problem with mp4 is, it needs a header written at the end, containing all the neccesary information to play the file.
Without that header, it's basicaly impossible to recover it, as no information about the content is present.
flv doesn't have something like this, it can be freely sliced in parts and will still play.
 
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