Bug Report WHY do hotkeys only sometimes work?

Kizzume

Kizzume

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Why should it make any difference what is selected on the screen when one wants to use hotkeys? If they hotkeys aren't reliable, why have them in the program at all? Why shouldn't the hotkeys work because a red outline is on the video source? Why is it inconsistent? Why can the hotkeys NOT work, but when I hit the ones to make the recording start and stop and start and stop and start and stop again, they finally work, regardless of if there's a red outline?

The only way I seem to be able to guarantee that the recording will actually start, using the hotkeys, is if there's NO red outline to the video.

I can't count now how many times a heartfelt emotional video never got recorded because of this inconsistent hotkey behavior. What gives? Is there any advice anyone has about this? I don't want to use the mouse to select it because record is NOT on the top, it's below an option I never want to click (start streaming) unless I want to accidentally start streaming, so I heavily use the hotkeys for recording.

So again, any advice would be greatly appreciated. What would be even MORE appreciated is if the hotkeys actually worked consistently no matter what is on the screen.
 
Poet

Poet

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I had once requested a checkbox for the streaming option in settings that would put up a confirmation dialog before people accidentally stream. Something along the lines of "are you absolutely sure you wanted to press this button?". I still believe this feature should be added to remove the worry about streaming vs recording.

Still.. I've seen the same thing happen for me on OBS too. The "red outline" is always there for me though as it's usually the active source on most of my scenes I record to. I mean to suggest that it isn't the cause in my case. I can usually get the hotkeys to work again if I simply click onto the OBS studio program and then click back into my app again.

But to say "If they hotkeys aren't reliable, why have them in the program at all" is silly. They work for me probably 99 of 100 times... to have them removed completely because of the 1% of the time they fail would be terrible. It certainly doesn't happen so much that I've missed out on a lot of recording opportunities.

Just how often is this actually happening?

If this fix is to deselect the source, then a quick fix would be before you leave the OBS window, click below your last source in the white-space below where you would have listed the "display capture" or "game capture", etc... that makes the "red outline" go away.
 
Kizzume

Kizzume

Member
I had just lost another 30 minute teary, heartfelt video--or moreso, it never got recorded.

I've lost over 20 long videos because of this that I've never been able to replace, I've never been able to word like that ever again. It's not a 1% thing for me, it's about 8% for me (usually I catch that it isn't working and I start again), and the times it happens, it's *always* when I'm wanting to record something important because it was immediately on my mind and I wanted to load the program and simply start recording.

I guess my question is: Why USE hotkeys if one has to do a bunch of things FIRST before using them in order to guarantee that they'll work? If I have to click a bunch of things before hotkeys will be guaranteed to work, then I might as well just do what ALWAYS works, and that's click the option with the mouse, in hopes I don't click the stream button. If I have to click click click click click, then why bother using the hotkeys? The hotkeys are there so I *don't* have to use the mouse, and if they're not reliable, why use them?
 
Kizzume

Kizzume

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Poet said:
Could always just disable UAC in windows.... that removes the prompt definitely.
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Well, I don't want to make my system that insecure. Either way, if I have to click an extra prompt, it's worth it to have the program not act buggy. I notice that the scrollwheel problem goes away when I run it as an administrator as well.

It would seem to me that running it as an administrator should be a major suggestion during the first run or during the installation of OBS.
 
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