We've been using OBS for a while now and quite like it. Works fine on almost everything. However -- and I don't recall when this started, but it's been at least months now -- when we try to capture Minecraft, it's a less than 40% chance we'll get video out of it.
I have hours of footage with no footage, just audio. And at first I thought, well, we're just forgetting to ensure that the capture is working. But then we end up with long runs wherein the first video worked (aha! OBS grabbed the right thing, we're good to go) but the rest of them are blank.
And it'd be one thing if this happened 100% of the time, but there are times when it works absolutely fine! We have no way of knowing whether or not it's working until after we're done playing the thing we wanted to capture, and then just regrets at missing awesome moments. And trying to check if it's working seems to potentially be one of the things that changes whether or not it is working (Heisenberg strikes again!).
So... what the heck is going on? What am I doing wrong?
I'm using Windows 10 on two computers. Both were upgraded from 8.1 without a full wipe. On the one computer, after certain games didn't work/load at all, I ended up doing a Windows Refresh to clear the... registry? I guess?... which solved some problems; then I felt too irritated at what all I had to do (and all the stuff I had to reload) to do it on the other computer, and since most of the games we wanted to play were working okay, I decided not to bother.
The problem occurs on both computers. I haven't really checked through to see if it occurs in any pattern between the two (I don't see why it would), but plenty of times it's blank for both sides of the video.
We use Game Capture and tell it to grab the javaw.exe Minecraft that shows up in the drop-down. I would be doing "capture any fullscreen application" but that failed enough times that we stopped using it in general. I probably should've tried some Minecraft runs using it again and see how it compares to specifically telling OBS to grab Minecraft.
Also, we're running our own local server with a bunch of mods, but that doesn't seem to affect whether or not we can capture. Got plenty of footage with mods, plenty of blanks with mods or without.
Help?
http://pastebin.com/52xH0GLP
I have hours of footage with no footage, just audio. And at first I thought, well, we're just forgetting to ensure that the capture is working. But then we end up with long runs wherein the first video worked (aha! OBS grabbed the right thing, we're good to go) but the rest of them are blank.
And it'd be one thing if this happened 100% of the time, but there are times when it works absolutely fine! We have no way of knowing whether or not it's working until after we're done playing the thing we wanted to capture, and then just regrets at missing awesome moments. And trying to check if it's working seems to potentially be one of the things that changes whether or not it is working (Heisenberg strikes again!).
So... what the heck is going on? What am I doing wrong?
I'm using Windows 10 on two computers. Both were upgraded from 8.1 without a full wipe. On the one computer, after certain games didn't work/load at all, I ended up doing a Windows Refresh to clear the... registry? I guess?... which solved some problems; then I felt too irritated at what all I had to do (and all the stuff I had to reload) to do it on the other computer, and since most of the games we wanted to play were working okay, I decided not to bother.
The problem occurs on both computers. I haven't really checked through to see if it occurs in any pattern between the two (I don't see why it would), but plenty of times it's blank for both sides of the video.
We use Game Capture and tell it to grab the javaw.exe Minecraft that shows up in the drop-down. I would be doing "capture any fullscreen application" but that failed enough times that we stopped using it in general. I probably should've tried some Minecraft runs using it again and see how it compares to specifically telling OBS to grab Minecraft.
Also, we're running our own local server with a bunch of mods, but that doesn't seem to affect whether or not we can capture. Got plenty of footage with mods, plenty of blanks with mods or without.
Help?
http://pastebin.com/52xH0GLP
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