Question / Help OSB Corrupted Three Files Hours Later

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Getzo

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Alright.

So I've had problems with OBS corrupting .mp4 files, and yes; I know I should use .flv, which I now am.

I've had problems with corrupted .mp4 files earlier, but now it's out of hand. I recorded the best gameplay of my life earlier today. Yes, this was saved as .mp4 (since I read about flv about 30 mins ago), but the corruption didn't happen when saving the files.
After playing for a little while, I tab out of my game to make sure I'm still recording, and also to change my Cam settings, since the light changes. Today, I have a total of 5 .mp4 files. The last 3 files, however, were save beautifully, taking up a few Gb's each. However, having OBS still opened in the background, I watched some Youtube, played around Adobe Premiere, etc., for about 2 hours. I open my Broadcast folder with my latest saved files, and *BAM*!

The last 3 files are corrupted.
The same 3 files that I looked through and laughed partially at, being happy that it actually got captured, only 2 hours prior to them being corrupted.

What the friggidyflop happened?
Now the files are down to a few Kb's instead of Gb's.

I know that I should record with .flv, but the point is that I can't find anything in Roaming, nothing cached, nothing in the Recycle Bin so far.


To Summarize: I captured gameplay footage. I stopped recording (no crash). I WATCHED the .mp4 file (which was working). A few hours later, several files have been corrupted.


To quote everyone's least favourite Gungan: "Any help here would be hot, he he..."

Regards, The Sad Panda (Getzo)
 
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sam686

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Getzo said:
The last 3 files are corrupted.
The same 3 files that I looked through and laughed partially at, being happy that it actually got captured, only 2 hours prior to them being corrupted.

Now the files are down to a few Kb's instead of Gb's.
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How much free disk space you have?

Running out of disk space corrupts .mp4 as important data was unable to be placed at the end of file when out of disk space or when OBS crashes. FLV format is playable nearly all the time as important data is at the beginning of file, but if FLV file size is only a few KB from running out of disk space, it may only have a few seconds of video.

OBS don't give warnings/errors from running out of disk space.

FLV can be converted to MP4 using some tool or using OBS-Multiplatform, file, convert to MP4.
 
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Getzo

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Thanks! That helped a little bit, though I had 60 Gb available at the time, settings made 1h gameplay be at about 2 Gb, and there was a total of about 5 hours, so it's still weird imo.

Anyhow, I now use .flv and monitor disk space every day to keep this from happening again.

Thanks again for the reply!

//Getz
 
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