Question / Help Videos corrupted if over 4 GB in size

kekkers

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So the issue: OBS corrupts some vids. It seems like a vid is corrupted when it exceeds the amount of RAM i have, which would be 4 GB. I've found a workaround, that is, restart recording every hour or so, but it still happens sometimes.

I'd like to somehow fix those vids. Is there any way? The video player just gives up when i try to open one of those videos. The data must be there, because the file is 4 GB in size, but clearly something got screwed up.

Attached a log file. The vid 16-17-18 is broken, all vids after that one work. Mainly because i remembered to split the recording at hour intervals, unfortunately didn't cut the first vid in time(although if i remember correctly, it was one hour long, while one of the next vids was an hour and something long). Either way. Clearly it has to do with the length of a recording, is there a way to automate the process of restarting my recording? So i don't have to set up an alarm to remind me to stop it every hour, that is. I didn't set up an alarm this time, i probably should've, but i didn't think it'd be that much of an issue.

And is there a way to somehow recover those videos? The .flv format is said to be really good at, well, not corrupting the whole video when the recording software crashes, i guess in my case where no crash occurs it doesn't help?
 

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Xaymar

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Since the files are >4GB, the player you are using very likely doesn't work with the size or format. Remuxing the files to a streamable format (mkv preferred, mp4 also works) could help with playing back the files, or you could also attempt a different media player.
 

Suslik V

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Usually, the VLC Player able to playback videos larger then 4GB.

Your D: drive formatted to NTFS?
 

Xaymar

Active Member
Technically FAT32 doesn't support files over 2GB, so yes FAT32 is the problem. It might be time for an upgrade to NTFS for that disk.

Edit: FAT32 supports 4GB with Large File Support, which Windows does have. So anything over 4GB is lost to nothingness.
 

kekkers

New Member
Technically FAT32 doesn't support files over 2GB, so yes FAT32 is the problem. It might be time for an upgrade to NTFS for that disk.

Edit: FAT32 supports 4GB with Large File Support, which Windows does have. So anything over 4GB is lost to nothingness.
So because of FAT32 all the stuff over 4 GB got cut off? Damn that sucks. Alright, i'll work with a different drive then
 
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