OBS Not outputting Anything

[Jackboy317]

About 2 Weeks ago, OBS decided to stop outputting video to any file. I tried reinstalling, editing settings, no dice.

It will say its recording in the studio window, but nothing is being put out.

Anyone having this issue too?

 

[koala]

You defined a hotkey for starting/stopping recording, and you pressed the stopping hotkey very soon after you started the recording. Reconfigure your hotkey configuration and change the hotkey to something more difficult you don't press accidentally. Keep in mind hotkeys are system global, i. e. they are still watched while you use other apps.

 

[Jackboy317]

Thats not the problem, I've been doing that for 2 years and it never gave me any problems, Now OBS has to be the focused window in order for the hotkeys to work. It doesn't work when I'm using a game.

 

[koala]

From your logs:

09:18:29.235: Starting recording due to hotkey
[...]
09:18:29.758: ==== Recording Start ===============================================
09:18:29.758: [ffmpeg muxer: 'adv_file_output'] Writing file 'E:/video/2020-06-12 09-18-29.mp4'...
09:18:30.820: Stopping recording due to hotkey
09:18:31.029: [ffmpeg muxer: 'adv_file_output'] Output of file 'E:/video/2020-06-12 09-18-29.mp4' stopped
09:18:31.029: Output 'adv_file_output': stopping
09:18:31.029: Output 'adv_file_output': Total frames output: 65
09:18:31.029: Output 'adv_file_output': Total drawn frames: 76
09:18:31.029: ==== Recording Stop ================================================

These entries ("Stopping recording due to hotkey") are in all your logfiles and tell without a doubt that OBS received the key combination for stopping the recording - a thing configured by yourself.

If OBS doesn't recognize keystrokes while something else is in focus, this something else is running as admin while OBS isn't running as admin. Windows prevents non-admin apps receiving hotkeys while the foreground app is running as admin. Solution: either run both as admin or none as admin. It's better to run none as admin, because running something as admin is weakening your system's security.