OBS Studio crashes with Advanced Scene Switcher

[jgmdesigns]

Hello All!
I am very new to OBS and I am sure this has been asked before and I have looked at some of the threads, but I am still at a loss.

First things first... My setup:

HP desktop PC with a Core i5 processor running @2.7GHZ
12GB RAM
160Gb HDD
two NIC's One is for the IP camera, the other is connected to the internet to stream to YouTube Channel
I have OBS studio launcher in my Windows startup folder to lunch on Windows startup

Now the setup is working flawlessly out of the box. Except when the computer loses power and restarts, as OBS wants to know if I want to proceed in Safe Mode, or normal mode. I WOULD LOVE FOR THIS TO ALWAYS START IN NORMAL MODE, but how?

The big issue is getting OBS to auto start streaming. From looking around the go to add-on is Automatic Scene Switcher, which I downloaded from Github, and installed.

I then configure the GUI based macro to auto start OBS streaming. So far, so good.

But when the computer is shut down, and restarted, even on a clean launce of OBS, as soon as Advanced Scene Switcher goes to launch streaming I get a pop-up telling me OBS has crashed at some memory address and must be shut down.

Uninstalling Advanced Scene Switcher gets rid of the problem, but I have to manually start streaming.

What am I doing wrong wit this? Any help is appreciated.

Cheers,
James.

 

[jgmdesigns]

No one?

 

[AaronD]

The Windows forum is so active that you're only on the front page for about half a day. You're effectively hidden from those who only look once a week or so.

Anyway, the discussion forum for Adv. SS is here:

Advanced Scene Switcher

Warmuptill submitted a new resource: Automatic Scene Switching - Switches to specified scenes depending on which window is in focus A remake of the "Simple Scene Switcher"(https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/simple-scene-switcher.29/) for obs-studio. Installation 1. Extract the folder. 2...

obsproject.com

It's also very active, but not *that* bad! The author is usually quite responsive in there.

 

[jgmdesigns]

While I understand this is open source software, being 'hidden' after only a half a day is pretty sad.

Thank you for your information though, I'll head there next

James

 

[jgmdesigns]

Well it appears that I do not have 'privilege's' to post a 'resource' in the forum. This is becoming rather frustrting to say the least.

Ok, while I fight that battle, can anyone tell me how to instruct OBS to always start normally, no matter what?

James.

 

[AaronD]

Well it appears that I do not have 'privilege's' to post a 'resource' in the forum. This is becoming rather frustrting to say the least.

Ok, while I fight that battle, can anyone tell me how to instruct OBS to always start normally, no matter what?

James.

A resource is something like a *new* plugin. You're not doing that. Just post to that thread that I linked.

There are a bunch of command-line flags that might be useful. obs --help in a terminal (Command Prompt) to see all of them. One is:
--disable-shutdown-check: Disable unclean shutdown detection.

So if you only use that one, your command would be:
...obs.exe --disable-shutdown-check

Pity that Windoze tries all it can to hide the command line from you, even though that's still what's really going on. You can see a little bit of it in the shortcut editor: Find where it actually runs the command to start OBS, and add that flag to it.

BUT!!! Adding the --disable-shutdown-check flag is only a band-aid. It does not actually fix the problem. Keep looking for the real problem, so you can take the flag back off and still have it work.

 

[Lawrence_SoCal]

Though.... AdvSS may be just correlative vs causal
So maybe start with following pinned post in this forum on posting OBS Studio log when having an issue and asking for help (link in my .sig)
And posting in this thread both an OBS Studio log and the crash log would be advisable

 

[jgmdesigns]

This is getting beyond annoying. I have tried twice to post in teh plugins section for A.S.S and both times my resource is deleted with no explanation. It appears that the plugins 'resource' is not where you ask questions, but where you post solutions. This helps me in no way whatsoever!

While I understand this is all open source, not being able to contact anyone to guide me on how to post in the proper forum, much less get any kind of assistance is beyond frustrating.

Jim

 

[AaronD]

This is getting beyond annoying. I have tried twice to post in teh plugins section for A.S.S and both times my resource is deleted with no explanation. It appears that the plugins 'resource' is not where you ask questions, but where you post solutions. This helps me in no way whatsoever!

While I understand this is all open source, not being able to contact anyone to guide me on how to post in the proper forum, much less get any kind of assistance is beyond frustrating.

Jim

Take a screenshot of where you're actually trying to post. I still don't think you're in the right place. Just scroll to the bottom of the exact page that I linked - don't click anything else - and start typing in that box.

 

[PaiSand]

You don't post a resource on there, you post a question/explanation of an issue you're having.
In the Overview tab you can clearly see a link to guides and examples on the wiki section in the github page for this plugin.

 

[Fenrir]

This is getting beyond annoying. I have tried twice to post in teh plugins section for A.S.S and both times my resource is deleted with no explanation. It appears that the plugins 'resource' is not where you ask questions, but where you post solutions. This helps me in no way whatsoever!

While I understand this is all open source, not being able to contact anyone to guide me on how to post in the proper forum, much less get any kind of assistance is beyond frustrating.

Jim

I'm deleting your post because you're submitting a support question as a resource, which is not what the resources section is for.

 

[Fenrir]

This thread is just fine for your question/discussion though, if you're having crashes, you'll need to post the crash log so someone can take a closer look, or post in the actual thread of the Advanced Scene Switcher that was linked already, not create a new resource.

Additionally, I think it was misunderstood that posts are actually hidden, which they are not. The comment was meant that they no longer show up on the front page, which might make them less likely to be noticed and commented on. Making a bump once a day is just fine to push them to the front page again so they are more visible.