When used with certain applications, software capture seems to forget what it was supposed to capture after that application has been restarted.
I can't say I understand what these values mean, but if you go into the scenes config file and look at that software capture, the "windowClass" value contains a GUID, which appears to be different on every launch of the application, so when OBS looks for it again, it wont find it because it then has a new "windowClass".
For example, when I first added it to a scene, the windowClass was
To replicate this problem, simply start this program, capture it with software capture, then close and reopen it:
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/3872463/MusicDisplayDUMMY.exe
(I've disabled everything the MusicDisplay program does, so it currently only displays a dummy window for testing)
I can't say I understand what these values mean, but if you go into the scenes config file and look at that software capture, the "windowClass" value contains a GUID, which appears to be different on every launch of the application, so when OBS looks for it again, it wont find it because it then has a new "windowClass".
For example, when I first added it to a scene, the windowClass was
but then when the application was closed and reopened, OBS couldn't find it anymore, so I re-added it to the scene and this time it has this value instead
To replicate this problem, simply start this program, capture it with software capture, then close and reopen it:
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/3872463/MusicDisplayDUMMY.exe
(I've disabled everything the MusicDisplay program does, so it currently only displays a dummy window for testing)