Question / Help long video once done showed black

[Lersinex]

hey everyone
i was wondering if i could get some help with this. i was recording for six hours straight of some game play and when i put it up on youtube i will split it up of coarse but when i checked the footage the sound was there but no footage. and i have made other videos and it has worked. is there any way to recover that?

 

[Lain]

If you did not record anything and there is nothing on the video file (even in a good video player such as VLC/MPC), then there's nothing to recover. Sounds like something slipped by capture and you probably just didn't realize it.

Otherwise, if the video file does actually work then that's another story.

 

[Lersinex]

well. i believe it was recording because i had obs on my second monitor and it showed it was recording the whole time. and the footage was rolling buy. but once i was done vlc crashes when i try playing it and i used windows media player and that sort of worked. it played the sound but not the footage. and when i put it into my video edditing softwhere for splitting it up there was only sound and a black screen as well

 

[Lain]

If the video file is very large, you may have to view it with VLC 64bit. If it played in the OBS preview then it definitely should have appeared on the video, any time something appears in the preview it's basically guarantee to be recorded.

Windows media player often cannot play back video from OBS files without proper codecs installed. My advice would be to get the 64bit version of VLC and see if it works there instead. I'm pretty confident it did actually record the video if you stated that the preview showed the video while recording and you were monitoring it.

 

[Lersinex]

i tried that and that did not work. this is a huge inconvieniance because thats 6 hours of work down the drain. vlc just stops responding.

 

[Boildown]

Post the OBS log file from that capture.

Download this: http://mediaarea.net/en/MediaInfo and post the media info from the file you saved.

Try other players, like Media Player Classic and Windows Media Player. I've routinely saved files that long (I think my record was 11 straight hours) using OBS and they played back fine. Sometimes in certain players they take numerous seconds to begin playback, if they're large though.

 

[achmetha]

Have you installed x264vfw codecs 32/64bit? Or even K-lite codec pack? Try those codecs out.