URGENT HELP NEEDED!

[Shane1985]

I have recorded a 3hr session and at times when i miss something, i go back to the video to have a look. The audio is good but the video is laggy or frames are missing! i cannot go back and re-record as it was an exam. How do i recover those lost or missing frames???

Log file:

https://obsproject.com/logs/S12_cFQhhxGgROIG

 

[PaiSand]

You can't. This is why the missing frames:

Analyzer | OBS

OBS (Open Broadcaster Software) is free and open source software for video recording and live streaming. Stream to Twitch, YouTube and many other providers or record your own videos with high quality H264 / AAC encoding.

obsproject.com

Alway test before commit.

 

[Shane1985]

You can't. This is why the missing frames:

Analyzer | OBS

OBS (Open Broadcaster Software) is free and open source software for video recording and live streaming. Stream to Twitch, YouTube and many other providers or record your own videos with high quality H264 / AAC encoding.

obsproject.com

Alway test before commit.

Thats the thing, i did. But could it be that the file size is 4gb?

 

[Lawrence_SoCal]

Thats the thing, i did. But could it be that the file size is 4gb?

depends on file system if you would have an issue with file sizes over 4GB or not (unrelated to OBS, and I doubt OBS would know or warn you). If you are savings recording to a file system with a 4GB file limit (ex FAT32), then I'd expect to have a recording that simply stopped at a given point... vs frames missing mid-video....

But... *if* you are using a file system with 4GB file size limit, and you hit that, and the video recording simply stopped at some point... anything after that I'd assume was simply NOT written to any drive, and is lost.
The future work-around is to either use a modern file system, or use settings/plugin to break recording up into multiple files, such that any individual file doesn't get that large

 

[koala]

You severely overloaded your computer with your recording settings, so it wasn't able to process and save every frame, and so your video misses parts. The missing parts are gone. You're lucky you got something, for most other people with a computer of a performance that low everything after the 1st 5-10 minutes is just completely gone.
How to avoid this in the future:
- use Tools->Auto configuration wizard
- do test recordings and adjust settings before doing real recordings