Question / Help No Space Left

[NAA1VE]

Hello, so i recorded a video which is 2 and a half hour, after finishing recording i clicked stop recording, it all went fine but then i checked the folder there was nothing there and i just realized that there were no space left. Is there anyway i can recover my video?

 

[R1CH]

Unfortunately if the disk was full the recording was lost.

 

[NAA1VE]

Unfortunately if the disk was full the recording was lost.

Ahh so sad, why were there no warning at all, maybe before stopping recording, or while recording?

 

[koala]

It's actually a flaw in OBS that recording will not stop automatically before the disk gets full, but it's also not entirely trivial to implement, because the definition of "disk is full" varies. If it is actually full with 0 bytes left, it is too late, because the video file cannot be gracefully finalized in this case. If you leave some headroom, how much? The requirement of this headroom varies greatly, depending on the bitrate, which is not always constant. It also takes some more bytes in the output between the decision to stop the recording and until the finalized video can be closed.
I'm boring you, I know, but developer's time seems to be spent on real streaming features and not on something the user has to deal with in the first place: provide enough disk space.

 

[NAA1VE]

It's actually a flaw in OBS that recording will not stop automatically before the disk gets full, but it's also not entirely trivial to implement, because the definition of "disk is full" varies. If it is actually full with 0 bytes left, it is too late, because the video file cannot be gracefully finalized in this case. If you leave some headroom, how much? The requirement of this headroom varies greatly, depending on the bitrate, which is not always constant. It also takes some more bytes in the output between the decision to stop the recording and until the finalized video can be closed.
I'm boring you, I know, but developer's time seems to be spent on real streaming features and not on something the user has to deal with in the first place: provide enough disk space.

After, recording i checked there was actually 7 mb left. i didnt checked before recording.

 

[koala]

There are always other apps who write and delete temporary files in background. Personally, I consider a disk full if there is less than 10 GB free. Disk space is cheap, just buy another hard disk instead of constantly struggling on the edge of being out of space.