Question / Help Recover skipped frames due to encoding lag

[AntonioRoss]

Dears, I was recording 4h capturing the screen during a RPG gaming session. As I do no stream I'm not worried about encoding lag... I'm used to leave the program econding after the actual recoding ended.

BUT when I stopped the recordingn last time I made a big mistake: I click twice the stop button.. with the first I stopped the actual recording, but with the second I stopped the encoding of the lagged frames I recorded.

At the end I have just 1.30h of recording instead of 4.h...

Is there a way to recover the missing part of the recording? Where OBS save the RAW information before encoding it? Is there a way to search for that temporary file and try to recover these missing frames? (Audio only will be OK too).

Thanks to All, and Merry Christmas!

 

[Osiris]

You seems to misunderstand how OBS works, it does live encoding. There is no "RAW information".
If your system is not fast enough to encode one frame in 33.33ms (30fps), the frame will be skipped, it is not saved anywhere.

 

[AntonioRoss]

Thank you Osiris.
I supposed this because usually I Start-Recording (ex. 13:15 for this case); then Stop-Recording (approx at 16:30).
Then the Stop-Recording button change to "Stopping..." for a while, CPU still working hard and the .mp4 file increases its size.
After this time the button changes back to "Start Recording". Usually this work fine for me. But in this case I pressed the "Sopping...", at 18.50 (2.20 h after the Stop), and probably I forced the stop...

So I supposed there were some pending work to do and that information was buffered somewhere. But I'm just looking at the buttons labels, I have no understanding about internal coding.

Thank you for your help.