Question / Help Unable to view large video recordings

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Bruce Dewey

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Windows Media Player encountered a problem while playing the file that message is showing up on some of my larger recording and unable to view them does anyone know how to fix
 
If VLC won't play it, handbrake won't do any good in most (if not all) cases.

Anyway, that mp4 is most likely corrupt. Did anything happen during recording? Like crashes or w/e?
You should be saving to mkv anyway, you can remux it later if you want.
 
Osiris said:
If VLC won't play it, handbrake won't do any good in most (if not all) cases.

Anyway, that mp4 is most likely corrupt. Did anything happen during recording? Like crashes or w/e?
You should be saving to mkv anyway, you can remux it later if you want.
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Nah it has happen to most of my longer recordings so it is not the first time and also there were no crash. How do I remux?
 
Flash is dead technology. OBS Studio should just get rid of it as the default option for recording format, if not entirely.
 
Repairing a corrupt file index is a complex task and not guaranteed to yield a good result.

In short - you won't be able to fix it, sorry.
 
DeMoN said:
But what is the purpose of having FLV if we have MP4 and even MKV?
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Compatibility - MKV is still not very widespread, and MP4 is an awful format that is prone to corruption due to needing metadata at the start that can't be known until the end.
 
R1CH said:
Compatibility - MKV is still not very widespread
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Thats just a "windows timeline software" problem. They have so terrible decoder and encoder that you want to commit suicide...
They even never heard of 10bit video, never heard of higher colorspaces than 4:2:0, even never heard of other encoding mechanism than bitratefixed. The nonexistent settings for the encoders not to mention. Just avoid this crap software ala vegas and co at all costs. You can edit videos with better software than this crap you even have to pay for.
Sorry for my rant, but the rant is straightforward to the devs of these softwares. I dont get why they have even at 2017 still such beta h.264 decoders. I just dont get it. Its unbelievable. And for such software so much money.

edit: oh and even my phone can open MKV. This is getting already slowly embarrassing at sony, adobe and co...
 
If you want to remux from one container into mp4, just use the built-in menu in OBS.
File > Remux Recordings
 
Bruce Dewey said:
but it already is an mp4
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You asked how to remux, so I linked it to you. But if its already MP4 that you don't need to remux that file. To avoid problems in case OBS crashes, you should save as FLV or MKV instead of MP4 in the future, then remux afterwards.
 
I have some questions regarding the specifics of the containers used for recording. I don't know much about this stuff, but I would like to understand what's going on.

R1CH said:
FLV is a container format, it has nothing to do with Flash itself.
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Aside from flv not being influenced by whatever Adobe does with Flash, is it safe to assume that switching to mkv is the better choice in any case? I usually want to edit the video and improve filesize of the original recording if possible for archival purpose.

R1CH said:
MP4 is an awful format that is prone to corruption due to needing metadata at the start that can't be known until the end.
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Does this apply only to recording? What about a download that got disrupted?

Thanks.
 
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