Question / Help "Stop Recording" problems

[ReflectedMantis]

For the past week, my recordings, which I save to a flash drive, take anywhere from 3-5 minutes to save. When I saved a quick 5 minute recording to my main SSD, it saved instantly like it used to. The problem with that is I have less than 10 GB free on my SSD, so I can't save all of my recordings there, especially when I have multiple 2 hour recordings like I do now.

I included 3 log files because I don't know if I recorded in all of them or not.

 

[Narcogen]

14:05:08.984: Output 'simple_file_output': Number of lagged frames due to rendering lag/stalls: 11109 (19.6%)
14:05:08.987: Video stopped, number of skipped frames due to encoding lag: 9732/45397 (21.4%)

You are overloading your GPU and your encoder, at least in parts of the log.

https://obsproject.com/wiki/GPU-overload-issues

As for the saving... not sure what you're expecting. Flash drives like USB keys are just not as fast as an internal SSD or even a SATA hard drive. They're not suited for realtime recording of HD video.

14:16:46.097: ==== Recording Stop ================================================
14:17:54.346: adding 69 milliseconds of audio buffering, total audio buffering is now 116 milliseconds (source: Capture card 1)
14:17:54.346:
14:20:22.144: Max audio buffering reached!
14:20:22.144: adding 928 milliseconds of audio buffering, total audio buffering is now 1044 milliseconds (source: Capture card 1)

Are you capturing from a USB capture devices that's on the same USB controller as the flash drive you're trying to save to? Because just when you stop the stream, audio buffering hits the max value, which usually indicates system overload.

You've also got a number of broken image sources that can reduce OBS performance, as the system will spend time looking for them and not finding them.

 

[ReflectedMantis]

"You are overloading your GPU and your encoder, at least in parts of the log."

That doesn't surprise me too much. That's a whole seperate issue I'm having. Started happening when I tried to record in 60fps (which I think my PC should be able to handle, but that's beside the point) Obviously recording in 60fps isn't an option for me right now.



"As for the saving... not sure what you're expecting. Flash drives like USB keys are just not as fast as an internal SSD or even a SATA hard drive. They're not suited for realtime recording of HD video."

The thing is I never had problems with it saving within at least 5 seconds of me hitting stop until about a week ago. And this is before I started trying recording in 60fps.


"Are you capturing from a USB capture devices that's on the same USB controller as the flash drive you're trying to save to?"

I'm not sure exactly what this means, but I would guess you mean am I using USB 3.0 or 2.0 for both? If so, then no. The capture card is on 3.0 and the drive is on 2.0. If that's not what you mean then idk.


"You've also got a number of broken image sources that can reduce OBS performance"

I didn't think that could cause any damage, especially considering they're all in different scenes, but if you say so. Most of those are from scenes that I don't use anymore, I just hadn't deleted them yet.

 

[ReflectedMantis]

Update: I decided to take your info into account and change my settings to record directly to my SSD. My recordings not only save instantly that way, but they also don't have any lag-spikes or skipped frames, at least not in the portions that I saw, even while recording at 60fps. (Now this is while recording my console gameplay, whether or not my PC games will work at 60fps, idk yet...) I will have to move my recordings onto my flash drive after I'm done recording them as I don't have the storage space to keep them on there, but that's fine. Thanks for the help :)