Recording randomly stopping without warning or error messages.

[FragginGamin]

Hello! So I'm having a bit of an issue. So this has been an off and on thing for awhile now, but I haven't made a thread about it until now. Essentially, sometimes when I'm recording, it just randomly stops recording without telling me. No error messages, no warnings, the recording light and timer also keeps going. It isn't until after I press the "stop recording" button that the problem lets itself be known. It'll change color, but the button just stays "stopping recording..." The timer still ticks up, the recording symbol stays there, but the button hangs. Then I need forcefully close OBS. After when I check the recording, the footage will be captured to a random point in time when it suddenly just stops. The recording could have been going on for hours, but it's like the recording just randomly stops itself at any point.

I've tried looking into it, but I haven't been able to find anything that seems to work. It could be fine for months, then it could give me problems for a whole day. Sometimes it's fine, then throughout a week, it'll just randomly decide to act up. I haven't found any solid patterns, except that it seems to happen mostly when I'm also screen sharing on discord at the same time, but it's also happened a couple of times off discord as well. Any advice is appreciated, since I can't seem to find the fix for the problem.

 

[AaronD]

If you do Help -> Log Files -> Upload... in OBS, then you can paste the URL that it gives you into our automated analyzer, which I've linked to in my signature.

A manual look at it shows this message:

16:26:32.936: ==== Recording Start ===============================================
16:26:32.937: [ffmpeg muxer: 'adv_file_output'] Writing file 'I:/Stream Or Youtube files/Initial recording folder/2023-12-10 16-26-32.mkv'...
17:10:44.194: [ffmpeg muxer: 'adv_file_output'] os_process_pipe_write for packet data failed
18:40:25.578: ==== Shutting down ==================================================

But the analyzer might actually have an explanation for it. Or maybe someone else that knows that part of it better than I do.

 

[rockbottom]

16:23:57.412: [noise suppress]: NVIDIA AUDIO FX version: 1.2.0.13
16:23:57.413: [noise suppress]: NVIDIA AUDIO Effects SDK is outdated. Please update both audio & video SDK.
16:23:57.595: [noise suppress]: NVIDIA AUDIO FX enabled

16:23:58.305: WASAPI: Device 'CABLE-A Output (VB-Audio Cable A)' [44100 Hz] initialized (source: Discord Audio)
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16:23:58.329: WASAPI: Device 'Mic In (2- Elgato Wave:3)' [48000 Hz] initialized (source: Mic/Aux)
16:23:58.332: WASAPI: Device 'Microphone (Scarlett 2i2 USB)' [44100 Hz] initialized (source: Mic/Aux 3)
16:23:58.342: adding 42 milliseconds of audio buffering, total audio buffering is now 42 milliseconds (source: Discord Audio)

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