Question / Help OBS Media Source Problem

[brasspaul]

Hey All,

I've been using OBS to set up church livestreams for a while now, often including pre-recorded material, and have only today started to see a problem with reading videos as a Media Source. Normally they play and display just fine, but everything I've tried to use today shows up in grayscale with a bunch of colored streaks running through it. Some videos still display just fine, it is only doing this with certain videos. That being said, all videos were produced the same way, and are in the same file format, there is nothing different about them. Below is an example of what I'm seeing.

Log file is here: https://obsproject.com/logs/MVaRsvTXBM7Ds43n

 

[brasspaul]

UPDATE: I have found that this is only a problem when using videos I actually created in OBS. For example, I made a recording in OBS with an attached camera, and then used this video as a "media source" so I could later add other layers (lyrics, etc) to it. The only OBS setting that has changed in the past few days was I changed my scaled output resolution. More specifically:

1. My Base canvas resolution is 1680x1050 (same as my macbook Pro screen)
2. My "original" scaled output was set to 1120x700. I was told that sites like Facebook and YouTube tend to stick to the "standard" sizes of 480p, 720p, and 1080p, any any resolutions in between those numbers will be rounded down. So while most of my videos and streaming elements were HD, my streams were actually in SD.
3. Since my base resolution didn't allow me to bump up to full 1080p, I changed my scaled output resolution to 1260x786 (the next largest option to achieve at least 720p.)

While I did a test stream and in fact verified that the stream was higher quality, It was videos I recorded after making that change in OBS that are displaying the above problem.

I also tried changing the output to the same as my base, and made a short video. Apparently no problem with these videos.

So, more information and context, but still no "why".