Question / Help Recordings seem to get corrupt frames

[DTien]

So I've recently started encountering an issue while recording on OBS Studio where I get what appears to be a corrupt frame. This started happening pretty recently and it's extremely frustrating when editing. When playing it back, it seems to cause my video player or editing software to sorta crash on a specific frame or group of frames. When I skip over it or cut it out, it appears to not be a problem but encountering these corrupt frames is extremely frustrating. I'll leave the log of the recording and a video example of what I'm talking about. Anyone know why this is happening and how to prevent it?
Video: https://youtu.be/cHhu7OYRfJs

Update: So a little update on this. The issue still hasn't been resolved. I tried recording in MKV as suggested and I'm still running into the same issue. It also messes with remuxing the footage into mp4 afterwards as the remuxing will stop on that corrupt frame and act like the end of the entire recording.

 

[R1CH]

Your log doesn't show any attempt at recording, only opening and closing OBS.

 

[DTien]

Your log doesn't show any attempt at recording, only opening and closing OBS.

Ah shoot. That's the only log I have from that day too

 

[DTien]

Ah shoot. That's the only log I have from that day too

Oh wait I uploaded the wrong one here's the one

 

[DTien]

Still trying to get an answer on this issue. The log was updated to the actual one since I accidentally uploaded the wrong log.

 

[Tarumes]

recording to mp4 is always a bad idea

 

[DTien]

recording to mp4 is always a bad idea

I record to mp4 for ease of editing and because it supports multiple audio tracks (I NEED multiple audio tracks for what I do). I've had issues with format support in the past with certain video editors and whatnot so I've just stuck with mp4 to avoid those issues. I've never had issues recording to MP4 in the past, and it's only recently that I've started running into the corrupt frame issue.

 

[Tarumes]

mkv support multiple audio tracks

 

[loopy2mn]

i am having the exact same problem and this has never happened before, just a few weeks ago. it just appears and makes things difficult, the only way is to edit around these seemingly random frames. and obs will give no struggle or signal, no reduce encoding warning. you just try to watch the footage back and it'll crash the video player, i've tried to handbrake the file(i record to mkv btw) no good handbrake will only read until the corrupt frame and think the video ends there. with an editing software you can edit around the corrupt area but you could miss several crucial seconds of whatever you've recorded + whenever you go near the corrupt frame my editing software absolutely dies for several minutes. it's just painful... probably going to backdate too an older obs see if it still happens? as none of the new features are too useful anyway it seems

 

[DTien]

So a little update on this. The issue still hasn't been resolved. I tried recording in MKV as suggested and I'm still running into the same issue. It also messes with remuxing the footage into mp4 afterwards as the remuxing will stop on that corrupt frame and act like the end of the entire recording.

 

[loopy2mn]

haha i've had a clip be remuxed successfully and render into a video and then in the upload process it failed, i had to go back remake the entire video. i'm glad to know it's not just me, i thought it was my hard drive going or maybe editing software. but that would be one impressive coincidence!

 

[R1CH]

There is a known issue with the current Intel QSV encoder that can sometimes produce corrupt frames, but no known issues with NVENC.

 

[loopy2mn]

I think we're both using NVENC i am at least, it's very recent and incredibly random!. thank you for at least letting us know you're keeping an eye on this thread means a lot! if it happens again i'll try giving you all i can!