Replay Buffer Not Recording For Correct Amount of Time

[Jackadoodles]

Title. I set the replay buffer to record for 240 seconds (four minutes), and so far it's produced just a single clip (of like 15) that is actually four minutes long. They often come out as 2:32/2:40 minute long clips, sometimes even just a minute or so.

Really frustrating problem, I don't know what it could be that's doing this.

Log: https://obsproject.com/logs/l9f5pRVHl7aCZ7bP

 

[koala]

The replay buffer feature uses the recording settings of OBS. If you set some quality based mode like CQP, the actual bitrate depends on the type of video - from zero to infinity. So the actual video length depends on the buffer size. If your video material makes the buffer full in 2 minutes but you want it 4 minutes, double the recording buffer size and you get double the time. This is what the hint on the OBS configuration dialog suggests.

 

[Jackadoodles]

I've made the maximum size of the buffer the highest possible number it'll let me input - 8192 MB. You can't even go to 8193.

Interestingly, now that I've checked, the 2:43 videos are actually 7.80 GB or so each, which is much closer to the cap than what they were (rarely breaching 300 MB). To solve that, I guess I just need to turn down the quality, right?

Curiously though, a two minute and thirty second video of Mordhau costs me 7.92 GB, but a full four minute video of VRChat (in VR) only costs me 1.93. Is this just because of the difference in visual quality of the game?

In any case, I reduced the recording quality (for CQP) from 12 to 14. I'll update soon with what changes.

 

[koala]

Yes, your CQP value of 12 is ridiculously high. I am not able to see any difference to the original raw at 18 and below.
Regardless the starting CQP value, increasing it by 3 about halves the resulting video, and decreasing by 3 about doubles the resulting video.