Question / Help OBS Recording not Complete

MisterSic

MisterSic

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Hello everybody,

I have the following problem for a few days. Whenever I want to record with OBS, my recordings are never complete.
As an example, I record for an hour and according to MediaInfo are recorded only 44 minutes. With Virtual Dub I can fix the files mostly then but then it takes me too long and is not a permanent solution.
Is there a solution for this?

MediaInfo:
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Edit: Correct Log now uploaded.

Greetings Sic
 

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Fenrir

Fenrir

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Thank you, but the log contains no stream/recording attempt.

Please post a link to a clean log file. To make a clean log file, first restart OBS, then start your stream/recording for ~30 seconds and stop it again. Make sure you replicate any issues as best you can, which means having any games/apps open and captured, etc. When you're done select Help > Log Files > Upload Current Log File. Copy the URL and paste it here.
 
Fenrir

Fenrir

Forum Admin
You have some... very strange errors in that log.

Why are you using advanced ffmpeg output? Do you have a specific reason for using that? You also changed the video format. Why?
 
MisterSic

MisterSic

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Cause i´m using the UT Video Codec for my records, works nearly 2 years very good for me.
what do you mean with video format? Avi?
 
Fenrir

Fenrir

Forum Admin
You should just be using the lossless preset in Simple output mode then. Chances are some of your settings are the cause of the issue. The lossless preset will work much better for you.
 
koala

koala

Active Member
If you are only recording and not streaming, the "Streaming" configuration box above does not apply.
 
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Alan Riplay

New Member
Hi there!

I got the same problem as @MisterSic but unfortunately I don't get how he solved the problem. I am recording with OBS by using a dual PC setup. My laptop is only working on the recording and the PC is only in charge for the games. My laptop's CPU usage (I record via x264 encoder) is around 30% all the time and I am saving the files on a 3 TB USB 3.0 drive which is only meant to store these big files (but is never even half full as I convert the files to MP4 right after recording).

So my issue can be described in the same way as MisterSic did in his first post: I record 1-2 hours and all the time OBS seems to work well (recording ongoing and the preview screen shows everything I see on my monitor). Just when I open the files, some of them are missing content. One time I recorded a little more than 2 hours and VLC player showed only a 53 min. video. There I can see that just before it's being cut, I don't do anything special like pressing any buttons on my laptop which could cause this problem. Adobe Premiere Pro at least showed that the video is actually this 2 hours + long but in minute 53 it's turning black and the audio stops. The same happened today - at first I recorded around 50 minutes without any problem. Then I started another recording which lastet around 1 hour 15 minutes. The video seems to be cut in VLC at 1 hours 3 minutes. After having read MisterSic's comment, that he's using Virtual Dub to restore the AVI's I gave that one a try and see there: This software shows the whole length of the video incl. the minutes that are missing according to VLC.

One of my first thoughts was that for some reason my elgato HD60S capture card is somehow going to some kind of sleep mode after 1 hour but that doesn't make sense as is this case at least my webcam should still be recorded.

This really is a pain in the a** because I never know if a recording was successful or if I have to take additional 2 hours to restore the file with Virtual Dub. Enclosed you can find the log file from today's recording (which "stopped" at 1 hour 3 min.). Hope anyone can help me on this. If you need more information, feel free to ask.

Thanks in advance,

alex
 

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Alan Riplay

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Anyone got an idea how to solve this issue?

I talked to a Friend of mine who's also Recording with exactly the same options. He has the same problem but as he is editing his videos in virtual dub anyway, this is not such an issue for him, because this software seems to be the only one that recognizes the actual length of the videos (incl. The part that adobe premiere pro does only show as black screen without sound). For me it's an additional step in the editing process that alone takes around 3x the time of the video length (only to convert/recover the video to mp4) which is why i would love not the be forced to run nearly any file through virtual dub...
 
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