Bug Report OBS Crashes when switching scenes

[Dans]

Hi guys, I'm capturing some vice city footage and due to how old the game is and it not supporting DirectX 9.0, I'm forced to use DXstory instead of OBS capture mode to capture gameplay.

OBS and DXstory will capture gameplay just fine, but when I want to switch to another scene with text (a break, for example) OBS freezes entirely. It happens both with the 64-bit version and 32 bit versions.

EDIT: This happens when I am alt+tabbed out of vice city. I discovered when I alt+tab back into the game, OBS will switch scenes correctly and recover from the crash. Quite weird :S

 

[paibox]

This is an issue with the way the DXtory DirectShow filter works, and not really with OBS itself. When DXtory isn't receiving any frames from its hooked application (such as when a game is minimized), its DirectShow filter also stops responding to any commands, and just queues them up until it's "ready" (starts receiving frames) again, when it will execute them.

I'm not sure there would be a safe way to apply a fix to this, maybe some sort of timeout when trying to unload the DirectShow filters, not sure.

 

[Lain]

Make DXTory a global source to prevent scene switching issues.