Sabor117
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Recently switched from original OBS to OBS Studio and have already encountered an issue with saving my recordings.
When I finished a fairly long recording session (~3:30 hours) I discovered that the video file seemed clearly to not have saved correctly. It was showing a file size, but no length of recording, which in my experience usually means it has corrupted because OBS crashed or was closed before it finished saving. Except neither of those things happened (plus I've been saving the files as an .flv because I understood that made it resistant to crashing).
I tried fixing it by using VLC to convert the file into a different save/format, but that resulted in a video which froze after 13 minutes.
This was a bit frustrating because I noticed that if I let it play from the start it does keep going, I just can't pick anywhere on the timeline and I can't stick the file into any editing software (admittedly it may freeze at some point in the video, I haven't watched the whole 3:30 hours). So with this in mind, the other thing I tried was simply using OBS again to record VLC playing the original recording. I thought this seemed like a plausible solution because the actual recording all seems to be there.
The issue was then, I came back to stop the recording after around 4 hours and found that the new save file was also corrupted in the same way.
One thing I noticed was that the file sizes were moderately similar: the original was 28ish Gb and the re-recording was 26ish Gb, despite being over an hour longer. So this has led me to think that it's possible that something is getting messed up with saving the large files.
Background out of the way I have two questions:
When I finished a fairly long recording session (~3:30 hours) I discovered that the video file seemed clearly to not have saved correctly. It was showing a file size, but no length of recording, which in my experience usually means it has corrupted because OBS crashed or was closed before it finished saving. Except neither of those things happened (plus I've been saving the files as an .flv because I understood that made it resistant to crashing).
I tried fixing it by using VLC to convert the file into a different save/format, but that resulted in a video which froze after 13 minutes.
This was a bit frustrating because I noticed that if I let it play from the start it does keep going, I just can't pick anywhere on the timeline and I can't stick the file into any editing software (admittedly it may freeze at some point in the video, I haven't watched the whole 3:30 hours). So with this in mind, the other thing I tried was simply using OBS again to record VLC playing the original recording. I thought this seemed like a plausible solution because the actual recording all seems to be there.
The issue was then, I came back to stop the recording after around 4 hours and found that the new save file was also corrupted in the same way.
One thing I noticed was that the file sizes were moderately similar: the original was 28ish Gb and the re-recording was 26ish Gb, despite being over an hour longer. So this has led me to think that it's possible that something is getting messed up with saving the large files.
Background out of the way I have two questions:
- Does anyone know of any solution to this problem?
- If there isn't a direct solution to this, does anyone know of a way to automatically make OBS record in (say) 1 hour segments, so I'd end up with several smaller files instead of the one huge one? I figure that this might work because I experimented and could easily save smaller files, so it seems like it's the big file size that is the issue.
