Question / Help Obs immediately stops recording and throws error

[Pinky]

Everything was working dandy till I updated my amd driver, obs and amf plugin today.

Stops recording immediately in desktop or in game and throws an error, complaining about missing files (avutil-55.dll avformat-57.dll avcodec-57.dll) on 16.11.1 amd driver, obs 0.16.4 and amf 1.4.1.0
Have already uninstalled and reinstalled both packages, didn't fix.

Log file here - https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/42027960/Titanfall/log.txt

 

[Fenrir]

Can you get a screenshot of the exact error message you're getting?

It appears to be the ffmpeg encoder that's failing, not the VCE plugin.

 

[Pinky]

Sure, attached. Any idea why it's suddenly complaining about missing files when previous versions worked ok?

 

[Fenrir]

Yeah, those are all the ffmpeg library DLLs.

I'd give OBS an uninstall/reinstall (all your settings should be fine assuming you choose not to clear them during the uninstall).

Reboot after uninstalling, before reinstalling. Something wonky happened with the OBS update installer, I bet.

 

[Pinky]

Thanks. Tried that, same thing happened. Baffled.

 

[Pinky]

I checked and despite obs throwing the error about those 3 files, they are indeed installed in this dir:

C:\Program Files (x86)\obs-studio\bin\64bit

 

[Pinky]

Looks like I have narrowed the issue down. It only occurs if 'use opencl' is 'enabled'. Otherwise recording seems to work fine.

I'll check with Xaymar, though he sent me over here.....

 

[Xaymar]

You still have the same ffmpeg muxer error as before. The encoder started and stopped just fine as is evident from your last log file - make sure to disable any anti-virus solutions that you have installed and try again.