Question / Help Recorded Video

[Jonerm]

Hey everyone,

I'm having an issue that I can't seem to find a solution too. I've looked and looked, even asked a few friends who have been using OBS for a while now.

Let me start of by saying that the videos i've recorded are perfectly fine. There's nothing missing, the audio is synced up just fine. Everything that i want to be there, is there and at the level I want it to be.

That said, the issue that i'm having is with the recorded video itself after i'm done. I've tried to use multiple media players including VLC and still the result is the same. After i'm done recording and trying to review my footage the video wont let me skip around without taking at least 30 seconds to start playing again. This wouldn't be a huge issue in itself, but I edit a lot of my videos as well and the recorded video is not playing nicely with the editors either.

This issue is causing me to take 3 to 4 times longer to do things and is becoming a huge hassle. I'm saving my videos in MP4 format and have been able to easily play bigger files with no problem what so ever.

Any Suggestions?

 

[Harold]

Don't save to mp4.
Save to FLV.

 

[Jonerm]

Don't save to mp4.
Save to FLV.

Harold, thanks for the advise. I'll definitely try that. But i'm pretty sure that still doesn't bring me to the root of the problem which is what i would like to figure out. I play all sorts of MP4 files on my computer as is. Files that are much bigger and probably higher quality than the videos i'm recording. I'd like to find out if i can why THESE specific MP4 files aren't working properly.

 

[Jonerm]

Harold, thanks for the advise. I'll definitely try that. But i'm pretty sure that still doesn't bring me to the root of the problem which is what i would like to figure out. I play all sorts of MP4 files on my computer as is. Files that are much bigger and probably higher quality than the videos i'm recording. I'd like to find out if i can why THESE specific MP4 files aren't working properly.

Also I just switched to FLV. Now the video keeps playing. But the recording seems itself seems to be complete crap. I was better of with MP4 so long as I can get the videos to start cooperating.

 

[FerretBomb]

There is no quality degradation between FLV and MP4, it's just a container format.
MP4 is fragile and prone to crashing due to how all file information is stored at the end of the file post-finalization (and if it crashes, is 100% irrecoverable; it becomes a pile of digital garbage). So record to FLV and remux to MP4 if you need it.

I believe there were a few older threads about slow seek-times with OBS-created video; I recall that someone ended up using Handbrake to postprocess/re-encode their files with a more aggressive non-realtime encoder and fix the seeking issue at the same time.