Record bug

inoninja

inoninja

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Pretty much whenever I stop recording my desktop and when I decided to record again. It just won't record. It's hard to explain but simply I click the record button if I wanted to record again and then it won't say recording, it just stays neutral. I tried clicking on the other buttons on the control tab but it works, not record. I usually have to restart OBS every time I finish recording and decided to record again.
 
What do you see in the log file? If you haven't looked at OBS logs before, select "File", "Show Settings Folder." An Explorer window should pop up, usually under AppData/roaming/obs-studio. Exit OBS, since the log file won't be completely updated until OBS exits. Then look in the "logs" folder and open the most recent file (OBS keeps logs for the last ten runs)

When I start recording I see something like
15:07:05.062: ==== Recording Start ===============================================
15:07:05.062: [ffmpeg muxer: 'adv_file_output'] Writing file 'C:/Users/oldba/Videos/2021-08-05 15-07-05.mkv'...

Stop recording something like this
15:07:12.788: [ffmpeg muxer: 'adv_file_output'] Output of file 'C:/Users/oldba/Videos/2021-08-05 15-07-05.mkv' stopped
15:07:12.788: Output 'adv_file_output': stopping
15:07:12.788: Output 'adv_file_output': Total frames output: 205
15:07:12.788: Output 'adv_file_output': Total drawn frames: 231
15:07:12.789: ==== Recording Stop ================================================

On my PC, I can do multiple starts and stops without issue. If something on your machine is preventing a second recording, you may see an error message. If you use the Windows clock to note when you press "Record" the second time, you can look in the file near that time.

When submitting a question like this, it is helpful if you can attach a log file from a run of OBS where the problem occurred.
 
In the ...04-57-48 file, there is a Recording Start at 04:58:14.147, and a Stop about 4 minutes later. The second recording starts at 05:02:05.545, but ends about a second later after outputting only 41 frames. If some error is aborting recording, I don't see it in the log.

Are you using a hotkey to start and stop recording, or clicking on the button?
If a hotkey, is it a toggle?
Does changing the way you invoke record change the behavior?
In Settings, general, Output, set "Show confirmation dialog when stopping recording". Does that dialog show for the shorty recording?

Besides an errant hotkey or accidental double-click on the button, recording will be stopped
- if streaming stops (unless you changed the setting to keep recording
- if you run low on disk space. The limit seems to be 50 MB. Since the first recording succeeds, that seems unlikely to be the problem
 
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