I’m beginner-to-intermediate level at best with computers and software. I have a VCR connected to my computer in order to convert all my old VHS tapes to digital. I struggled quite a bit to get OBS working initially, but eventually after a lot of googling and trial and error I stumbled into doing it right. It worked fine, for both video and audio, for a couple months, using it almost every day. No issues.
Then today I opened it up, having changed nothing in the setup, nothing in the settings, and it doesn’t work at all. It neither displays nor captures the video. For audio it just gives me a loud, feedback-like hum. (The “Video Capture Device” thingie at the bottom still bounces around, though, like it’s receiving some kind of signal.)
It’s not the VHS tape. It plays fine on my TV.
I created a log and used the analyzer. It said “Custom FFMPEG Output” and “Mismatched Sample Rate.” I decided to try to address the former first. The recommendation was to set the output mode to “Simple.” I didn’t remember where I had it or why I had it where I had it—just that, again, whatever my settings were it had worked fine for a couple months—but I found what I think that’s referring to and set it to “Simple.”
I tried again, and there was still no video or audio. This time the log was even worse. It had the same two errors from before, and had added “NVENC Start Failure.”
I changed nothing, and shut down the computer entirely and restarted.
I tried again and there was still no video or audio. This time the log had dropped two of the errors and mentioned only “Mismatched Sample Rate,” which sounds like an audio thing, as if it saw no problems with the video worth mentioning.
In the log itself, among other things it says “warning: Found EOI before any SOF, ignoring. fatal: No JPEG data found in image. Error decoding video” a few hundred or thousand times.
So I’m stumped.
Then today I opened it up, having changed nothing in the setup, nothing in the settings, and it doesn’t work at all. It neither displays nor captures the video. For audio it just gives me a loud, feedback-like hum. (The “Video Capture Device” thingie at the bottom still bounces around, though, like it’s receiving some kind of signal.)
It’s not the VHS tape. It plays fine on my TV.
I created a log and used the analyzer. It said “Custom FFMPEG Output” and “Mismatched Sample Rate.” I decided to try to address the former first. The recommendation was to set the output mode to “Simple.” I didn’t remember where I had it or why I had it where I had it—just that, again, whatever my settings were it had worked fine for a couple months—but I found what I think that’s referring to and set it to “Simple.”
I tried again, and there was still no video or audio. This time the log was even worse. It had the same two errors from before, and had added “NVENC Start Failure.”
I changed nothing, and shut down the computer entirely and restarted.
I tried again and there was still no video or audio. This time the log had dropped two of the errors and mentioned only “Mismatched Sample Rate,” which sounds like an audio thing, as if it saw no problems with the video worth mentioning.
In the log itself, among other things it says “warning: Found EOI before any SOF, ignoring. fatal: No JPEG data found in image. Error decoding video” a few hundred or thousand times.
So I’m stumped.
