Question / Help recorded for 1h 35m. 4.2GB file. FLVExtract... 17 mins recording.

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Lewcas

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Hello!

I'm very new to this recording stuffs! I'm sure I've gone wrong somewhere but does OBS limit the size that you can record? I have other recordings at near enough the same size but they have the fuller length recording sessions on them.

I'm very confused right now, and slightly sad at the chance that I may have lost over a hours of gameplay recording.

Any help for a newbie? :)

Lucas
 
dssdassw

dssdassw

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There is no limit to the size that you can record, as far as I know.
Also, could you post a log?
I don't think it will be possible to regain the lost footage, but with a log someone might be able to figure out what went wrong.
 
FerretBomb

FerretBomb

Active Member
OBS does not, but depending on what your filesystem is formatted to, that may limit it.
Most likely, your drive is formatted to FAT32 which has a per-file size limit of 4GB (which might show up as 4.2 due to GB vs GiB). If this is indeed the case, that footage is lost and cannot be recovered, as it was never actually written to disk.

To resolve it, next time record to a drive formatted to NTFS (max per-file size of 256TB).
Preemptively, no, OBS cannot split and record to multiple files sequentially.
 
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Lewcas

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dssdassw said:
There is no limit to the size that you can record, as far as I know.
Also, could you post a log?
I don't think it will be possible to regain the lost footage, but with a log someone might be able to figure out what went wrong.
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Hello!

Here's the pastebin of my log files: http://pastebin.com/mz7spguD

@FerretBomb You are indeed right that my harddrive was a FAT32 format...I'll put the default record directory to my other NTFS drive and then just move it over to the harddrive for more storage in the future!

Thanks for the replies! I even tried to convert the video from VLC media player, and when I did it recognised that I had 1h 35m of footage but only got so far as FLVExtract did exactly.

Lucas :)
 
FerretBomb

FerretBomb

Active Member
Be aware that you cannot move a file greater than 4GB *to* a FAT32 drive, either. Best case it'll fail. Worst case it'll pretend to succeed, and just truncate the file, losing the end (which will render it useless if it's an MP4. Also STRONGLY advised to record to FLV, just as a by-the-by; it's easy and quick to remux between MP4 and FLV if you need MP4 later).

If it was my system, I'd probably try backing up the content of the FAT32 volume to another disk, reformatting the FAT32 volume to NTFS, then copying the data back. (Unless it's a system drive, then it gets tricky and can't just be copied back and forth normally.)

Cheers, and sorry about the lost recording.
 
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Lewcas

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Sorry for not replying any sooner, been busy with work and what not but thanks!
I ended up buying myself another external harddrive formatted for NTFS and this has fixed the problem with limited file capacity.

Thanks!!
 
koala

koala

Active Member
You don't need to buy a new external hard drive just to get a NTFS formatted one. You are able to ntfs-format a harddisk yourself. Plug in your FAT32-formatted drive, right-click the drive letter in Explorer and choose "Format..." You lose all current data on that drive of course. All Windows and Linux PCs support NTFS, most NAS devices as well. Only Mac requires the installation of additional drivers.
 
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