Question / Help Recording streams - Problems with formats

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AnneMunition

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I record my streams locally so I have an archive of my videos and don't need to download them from Twitch Tools after the fact. I used to save the files as .mp4 files, but I found that some of my longer videos would be corrupted and I couldn't open them at all (in VLC or video editing programs). So I switched to FLV and now my long videos don't appear to get corrupted anymore, but they're encoded in a way that means I can't open them in Adobe Media Encoder CS6 or Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 (both give me a "compression type not supported" error.)

So is there a better way to save videos of streams that don't get corrupted and that I don't have to spend hours and hours converting in order to edit? Thanks for any suggestions!
 
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ShishKebab

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The mp4 corruption error is an odd one; it tends to happen to me only if my video is over a gigabyte in size. Is this similar to yours?

If it's under a gigabyte, Windows Media Player will not play the sound, but VLC will play just fine.
If it's over a gigabyte, VLC will crash upon opening, but Windows Media Player will play just fine.
Either will play in Chrome or upload to YouTube no problem.
 
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AnneMunition

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Xphome

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AnneMunition said:
I tried that method and haven't been able to figure it out, that page doesn't really tell you what files to put where and which things to run. I'm not terrible with computers but I just am not familiar with running things from command prompt. Is there a video tutorial I can follow along with?
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Put your video file together with ffmpeg.exe then Shift+right click in the background of the folder view and choose Open command prompt here. Then run ffmpeg -i YourVideoFileName.flv -c copy -copyts WhatYouWantItToBeCalledWhenDone.mp4. If the filename has spaces then you need to put it in quotes, "Your Video.flv"
 
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