Hi,
I am currently experimenting with OBS as a mechanism for recording screen capture (as opposed to streaming).
I have a Window Capture source that is configured to record the inner window, and as my settings for my base resolution are lower than my monitors actual resolution (1024*768 vs 1920*1080), I was using the sub-region position option on my window capture source.
Pretty much every time I open OBS, my source just captures a plain black screen and I am forced to reconfigure the source properties before I can record. When doing so, my region position, and the sub-region tick box and size settings are lost.
What's quite interesting is that these lost settings don't revert the application back to the default of recording the window from the top left corner, and instead record a black screen. This suggests that at least part of the configuration is remembered, even if no signs are actually show on the properties screen.
I've noticed via google that there are a number of old reports of this problem going back for a while. Early reports were thought to be fixed, and then later reports ended up with an admission that nobody is really sure what the problem is.
I've got an extra bit on information that might help resolve the issue (or at least the version of the issue I experience).
Basically when this happens it is always with my browser source. I can replicate the loss of property settings, by opening or closing a new tab in Firefox or Internet Explorer. While the active recording is going on OBS is able to deal with the new tab, however once the recording is finsihed, if I check the properties the settings are gone and the next recording will be the black screen.
The same is true for tab changes outside of OBS sessions. As long as the same browser istance is open with the same set of tabs, OBS is able to pick up the window contents with settings intanct when the application is re-opened. But if the browser is closed or I add or remove tabs between OBS sessions, the properties information for the source is lost.
I am currently experimenting with OBS as a mechanism for recording screen capture (as opposed to streaming).
I have a Window Capture source that is configured to record the inner window, and as my settings for my base resolution are lower than my monitors actual resolution (1024*768 vs 1920*1080), I was using the sub-region position option on my window capture source.
Pretty much every time I open OBS, my source just captures a plain black screen and I am forced to reconfigure the source properties before I can record. When doing so, my region position, and the sub-region tick box and size settings are lost.
What's quite interesting is that these lost settings don't revert the application back to the default of recording the window from the top left corner, and instead record a black screen. This suggests that at least part of the configuration is remembered, even if no signs are actually show on the properties screen.
I've noticed via google that there are a number of old reports of this problem going back for a while. Early reports were thought to be fixed, and then later reports ended up with an admission that nobody is really sure what the problem is.
I've got an extra bit on information that might help resolve the issue (or at least the version of the issue I experience).
Basically when this happens it is always with my browser source. I can replicate the loss of property settings, by opening or closing a new tab in Firefox or Internet Explorer. While the active recording is going on OBS is able to deal with the new tab, however once the recording is finsihed, if I check the properties the settings are gone and the next recording will be the black screen.
The same is true for tab changes outside of OBS sessions. As long as the same browser istance is open with the same set of tabs, OBS is able to pick up the window contents with settings intanct when the application is re-opened. But if the browser is closed or I add or remove tabs between OBS sessions, the properties information for the source is lost.
