Question / Help OBS simply will not record. [Solved... Kinda]

[K-Anator]

Hey there guys,

So today I booted up Minecraft and OBS to start recording the next episode of an LP I'm working on, much to my dismay OBS didn't start recording when I pressed my hotkey. Alright, so I'll just hit "Start Recording", nope. OBS will not record, I'm not sure if it's an issue with updating to 0.16.4 or what, though I did try going back to 0.16.2 to no avail. I've gone through and checked that my hotkeys and recording path are still set, and even changed my encoder. Everything seems to be in place, but nothing is working. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated as I'd like to get back recording.

Log: https://gist.github.com/4d28c3dcc371caa3ebe1dfd3c07b8539

Looking at the log now, I've noticed these two lines (103,104)

08:43:06.962: [AMF Encoder] <Plugin::AMD::VCEEncoder::SetTargetBitrate> Setting to 0 bits failed with error AMF_OUT_OF_RANGE (code 5).
08:43:06.985: [AMF Encoder] Exception: <Plugin::AMD::VCEEncoder::SetTargetBitrate> Setting to 0 bits failed with error AMF_OUT_OF_RANGE (code 5).

I'm wondering if this is the issue? I'm using the "Indistinguishable" preset for "H264 Encoder (AMD Advanced Media Framework)". It was previously set to the [DEPRECIATED] one, but that wouldn't record either.

 

[K-Anator]

Sorry for the double post. I tried updating the AMF framework as suggested in this thread: https://obsproject.com/forum/threads/start-recording-doesnt-work-99-frames-drop-in-stream.57283/

That appears to have solved the issue.

 

[RytoEX]

As I said in that thread, from the changelog for version 1.4.1.0 AMD AMF plugin (bundled with OBS Studio 0.16.4):

Due to the nature of changes in this update, your previous settings may end up lost or incorrect. Make sure to revalidate them before attempting to record or stream.

If you continue using the AMD AMF plugin, you'll have to keep an eye out for things like this.