Question / Help Window Capture, Video Still, but audio records

GeekDoctor

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I was using 17.1 (I think) 17.something for sure. I had been using it 6-9 months easy. I only use it to record a game. I've always had it setup for Window Capture instead of game capture. No real reason in particular other than it worked and I didn't feel like figuring out any settings. I just wanted to record my game and upload to youtube to show people things in the game's forum and it just worked out of box.

About a week ago or so it stopped recording video. I have no idea why. What it shows in the video box is the screen I was on when it quit recording video. It's been bugging me to upgrade to 18.something for a while now and I've just ignored it because I didn't care about a newer version. My needs are simple and it was working, so I didn't bother. I had need to record again today and as with previous attempts, it just showed the screen I was on when it stopped recording video the very first time. Today I decided to try and fix it.

My first thought was that it was forcing me to upgrade to the 18.something, so I went ahead and did the upgrade, but that didn't change anything. Same ole same ole. Audio records, video stuck on the screen from when it first stopped recording video. My next thought was that maybe some setting got jacked for that application, so I recreated the source, again using Window Capture. Even a new window capture is showing what was on the screen when it stopped recording video and isn't even the same screen I'm currently on. For giggles, I said, okay, I'll try game capture. Well.... That works. Game capture works just fine.

Now my question is, why does game capture work when window capture doesn't? I have had need to record some things that are window capture before that isn't a game and I'm now wondering if those things will not record video, though I haven't tried it yet.

Any idea why Window capture is showing something other than what is currently on that window and will not record what is in the window?
 

GeekDoctor

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Update: I've used Window Capture before to record actions in the Chome web browser. For giggles I set it up to capture a window and no luck. Just a black screen. So.... It won't even capture a web browser window anymore. Any ideas why?

Edit: Looking at "current log file" I'm seeing a lot of failures, but have no idea what I"m looking at.....

01:31:34.800: CPU Name: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-6500 CPU @ 3.20GHz
01:31:34.800: CPU Speed: 3192MHz
01:31:34.800: Physical Cores: 4, Logical Cores: 4
01:31:34.800: Physical Memory: 8116MB Total, 1359MB Free
01:31:34.800: Windows Version: 10.0 Build 16299 (revision: 125; 64-bit)
01:31:34.800: Running as administrator: false
01:31:34.800: Aero is Enabled (Aero is always on for windows 8 and above)
01:31:34.800: Windows 10 Gaming Features:
01:31:34.800: Game Bar: Off
01:31:34.800: Game DVR Allowed: Yes
01:31:34.800: Game DVR: On
01:31:34.800: Game DVR Background Recording: Off
01:31:34.800: Game Mode: Off
01:31:34.801: Portable mode: false
01:31:34.812: OBS 20.1.3 (64bit, windows)
01:31:34.812: ---------------------------------
01:31:34.813: ---------------------------------
01:31:34.813: audio settings reset:
01:31:34.813: samples per sec: 44100
01:31:34.813: speakers: 2
01:31:34.814: ---------------------------------
01:31:34.814: Initializing D3D11...
01:31:34.814: Available Video Adapters:
01:31:34.815: Adapter 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960
01:31:34.815: Dedicated VRAM: 4260036608
01:31:34.815: Shared VRAM: 4255381504
01:31:34.815: output 1: pos={0, 0}, size={1920, 1080}, attached=true
01:31:34.816: output 2: pos={1920, 0}, size={1600, 1200}, attached=true
01:31:34.816: output 3: pos={-1920, 0}, size={1920, 1080}, attached=true
01:31:34.818: Loading up D3D11 on adapter NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 (0)
01:31:34.863: D3D11 loaded successfully, feature level used: 45056
01:31:35.646: ---------------------------------
01:31:35.646: video settings reset:
01:31:35.646: base resolution: 1920x1080
01:31:35.646: output resolution: 1280x720
01:31:35.646: downscale filter: Lanczos
01:31:35.646: fps: 60/1
01:31:35.646: format: NV12
01:31:35.648: Audio monitoring device:
01:31:35.648: name: Default
01:31:35.648: id: default
01:31:35.648: ---------------------------------
01:31:35.649: Required module function 'obs_module_load' in module '../../obs-plugins/64bit/chrome_elf.dll' not found, loading of module failed
01:31:35.654: [CoreAudio encoder]: CoreAudio AAC encoder not installed on the system or couldn't be loaded
01:31:35.660: [AMF] Encountered Exception during AMF initialization: Unable to load 'amfrt64.dll', error code 126.
01:31:35.660: Failed to initialize module 'enc-amf.dll'
01:31:35.672: Required module function 'obs_module_load' in module '../../obs-plugins/64bit/libcef.dll' not found, loading of module failed
01:31:35.672: Required module function 'obs_module_load' in module '../../obs-plugins/64bit/libEGL.dll' not found, loading of module failed
01:31:35.672: Required module function 'obs_module_load' in module '../../obs-plugins/64bit/libGLESv2.dll' not found, loading of module failed
01:31:35.673: Failed to load 'en-US' text for module: 'obs-browser.dll'
01:31:35.673: [browser_source: 'Version: 1.29.0']
01:31:35.675: NVENC supported
01:31:35.754: Couldn't find VLC installation, VLC video source disabled
01:31:35.763: No blackmagic support
01:31:35.816: ---------------------------------
01:31:35.816: Loaded Modules:
01:31:35.816: win-wasapi.dll
01:31:35.816: win-mf.dll
01:31:35.816: win-dshow.dll
01:31:35.816: win-decklink.dll
01:31:35.816: win-capture.dll
01:31:35.816: vlc-video.dll
01:31:35.816: text-freetype2.dll
01:31:35.816: rtmp-services.dll
01:31:35.816: obs-x264.dll
01:31:35.816: obs-vst.dll
01:31:35.816: obs-transitions.dll
01:31:35.816: obs-text.dll
01:31:35.816: obs-qsv11.dll
01:31:35.816: obs-outputs.dll
01:31:35.816: obs-filters.dll
01:31:35.816: obs-ffmpeg.dll
01:31:35.816: obs-browser.dll
01:31:35.816: image-source.dll
01:31:35.816: frontend-tools.dll
01:31:35.816: enc-amf.dll
01:31:35.816: coreaudio-encoder.dll
01:31:35.816: ---------------------------------
01:31:35.816: ==== Startup complete ===============================================
01:31:35.816: Service '' not found
01:31:35.823: All scene data cleared
01:31:35.823: ------------------------------------------------
01:31:35.855: WASAPI: Device 'Speakers (Realtek High Definition Audio)' initialized
01:31:35.892: adding 23 milliseconds of audio buffering, total audio buffering is now 23 milliseconds
01:31:36.408: Switched to scene 'Scene'
01:31:36.412: ------------------------------------------------
01:31:36.412: Loaded scenes:
01:31:36.412: - scene 'Scene':
01:31:36.412: - source: 'Display Capture' (monitor_capture)
01:31:36.412: - source: 'Display Capture 1' (monitor_capture)
01:31:36.412: - source: 'Hardware Monitor' (window_capture)
01:31:36.412: - source: 'DA:I' (window_capture)
01:31:36.412: - source: 'MG5' (game_capture)
01:31:36.412: - source: 'MGSV' (window_capture)
01:31:36.412: - source: 'Chrome' (window_capture)
01:31:36.412: ------------------------------------------------
 
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