Question / Help Video exported from recent stream will not open

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Sjuney

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So I recently had a 3 hour long stream that went incredibly well and I recorded as well, as I usually do, with OBS. The file that was outputted was fittingly large, 19gb for about 3 hours of 1080p is not surprising to me. What is surprising is that this video will not seem to open and I can't seem to figure out why. Please help as I would very much like to have not lost this video.

I've attached the log from that recording.
 

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The log looks fine. It is possible the app you are using is not able to open files of this size well. What are you using to play this? Have you tried VLC, Windows Movies & TV? Let us know.

Spikeypup
 
With windows movies & tv it shows this warning, similar with wmp but with vlc it just does nothing.

Patrick Ewalt said:
The log looks fine. It is possible the app you are using is not able to open files of this size well. What are you using to play this? Have you tried VLC, Windows Movies & TV? Let us know.

Spikeypup
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It must be corrupted, is my thought. You should never save directly to MP4, it corrupts easily and if something goes wrong, it often messes up the whole file. Save as an MKV instead... also try doing another recording and see (as MKV) if it even works, then also again as MP4, if they both work it is likely that the recording got corrupted under MP4, use MKV instead.
 
Patrick Ewalt said:
It must be corrupted, is my thought. You should never save directly to MP4, it corrupts easily and if something goes wrong, it often messes up the whole file. Save as an MKV instead... also try doing another recording and see (as MKV) if it even works, then also again as MP4, if they both work it is likely that the recording got corrupted under MP4, use MKV instead.
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Previously I had used MKV but have troubles editing the files and suffer massive quality loss on conversion, I saved another mkv and mp4 recording just now, both of which work. Is there any way that I can salvage the corrupted file?
 
I'm not sure on that one, I don't think so to be honest... If you need an MP4 output from OBS, simply record in MKV, then use the REMUX feature in the file menu to remux it back to MP4. :)
 
Oh wow that's very helpful that it can do that thank you so much. Now I just need to go on the hunt for saving a corrupted video file. Thanks for all your help.
 
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