Question / Help OBS crash while local recording MP4 files and quitting game

[Re1nForce]

Hi.

I'm trying to become a caster for Quake Live and I record my casting sessions via OBS for this. Sometimes when I quit the game without turning the stream off before hand it crashes and I can't open my MP4 file that I recorded during the session.

The file still exists and in a realistic size for the time I recorded, but I get an error opening the file in Windows Media Player. Is there any way to "revive" these files and make them able to use? It's quite frustrating when you've casted a few games and you accidentally makes most of the work go to waste :)

Thanks!
/Re1nforce

 

[R1CH]

Re: OBS crash while local recording MP4 files and quitting g

Are you letting OBS finish building the MP4 when you stop the stream? It should pop up a dialog when you stop streaming.

 

[Re1nForce]

Re: OBS crash while local recording MP4 files and quitting g

Are you letting OBS finish building the MP4 when you stop the stream? It should pop up a dialog when you stop streaming.

Yes, of course, and it works brilliantly.

But in the cases where OBS crashes rather than me stopping the stream manually, it doesn't "build" and I only get an MP4 file that cannot be used.

 

[McKack]

Re: OBS crash while local recording MP4 files and quitting g

Hi, I thought I'd chime in as well. I get random BSODs all the time for no reason so sometimes when I'm recording using OBS my computer will crash (not because of OBS!) and I end up with a file I'm guessing contains everything I recorded but just isn't processed yet.

Does anyone know of any tools that can repair/process these files?

Maybe this could make a great feature as well in the future some time for situations where the computer or program may crash.

 

[R1CH]

Re: OBS crash while local recording MP4 files and quitting g

If you save as FLV you can just convert to MP4 later and you don't have to deal with post-processing.

 

[McKack]

Re: OBS crash while local recording MP4 files and quitting g

Yeah I guess I have to do that until I figure out the source of my BSODs. Still I'd love to be able to recover the "unfinished" hours of footage I still have saved.

Any downsides to saving in FLV quality-wise, or possibly performance-wise in games, by the way?

 

[dodgepong]

Re: OBS crash while local recording MP4 files and quitting g

And FLV is exactly the same as an MP4...they are just different containers. It is possible to convert from a FLV to an MP4 very quickly without re-encoding using a tool like ffmpeg or SUPER.