Bug Report Video does not display at first, OBS Studio 0.15.2

[Victor Wren]

I've got a small video of a count-down graphic on one of my scenes. It's about 2.4MB. When I first open up OBS, it opens and runs the animation, but it does not display it. I have to go into Properties (where the animation shows up, already in progress) and close Properties, and the animation will appear. I don't have to change anything, just go into Properties and then hit cancel. It's obviously loading the video, because the countdown is running, but it's just not displaying it. This happens on first startup, and also whenever I change to a different scene collection and back.

There's not a lot in the log file, but it is complaining about the audio buffer size (the video has no audio).

13:10:07.789: [Media Source 'Countdown bullseye']: invalid audio_buffer_size 1
13:10:07.789: [Media Source 'Countdown bullseye']: settings:
13:10:07.789: input: T:/OBS_overlays/10 Minute Countdown Radial Timer with Beeps-ap-JvvU0xV4.mp4
13:10:07.789: input_format: (null)
13:10:07.789: is_looping: no
13:10:07.789: is_forcing_scale: yes
13:10:07.789: is_hw_decoding: yes
13:10:07.789: is_clear_on_media_end: yes
13:10:07.789: restart_on_activate: yes
13:10:07.789: [Media Source 'Countdown bullseye']: advanced settings:
13:10:07.789: audio_buffer_size: 1
13:10:07.789: video_buffer_size: 5
13:10:07.789: frame_drop: AVDISCARD_NONE
13:10:07.789: source 'Countdown bullseye' (ffmpeg_source) created

I increased the audio buffer size to 5 and it stopped complaining, but still doesn't display the video.

 

[Sapiens]

Try using a VLC source instead of Media source and see if that works better.

 

[Victor Wren]

Is VLC a plugin? I don't see that in the list of sources in OBS Studio. Looking in the plugin library, I do see a VLC plugin for OBS Classic, but since it hasn't been updated since March 2014, I wasn't sure it would work with OBS Studio.

(I notice I forgot to mention that this is the 32-bit version, just for completeness)

 

[Sapiens]

You have to use the VLC installer for the architecture you're using OBS with. That means 32-bit VLC (http://get.videolan.org/vlc/2.2.4/win32/vlc-2.2.4-win32.exe) for 32-bit OBS, and 64-bit VLC (http://get.videolan.org/vlc/2.2.4/win64/vlc-2.2.4-win64.exe) for 64-bit OBS.

 

[Victor Wren]

Okay, after installing VLC, and changing to a VLC source, the video comes up automatically (after about a 2 second delay).