No Recordings Saved.

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This plugin solves a streaming problem I've had so I was very excited to come across it. Sadly it doesn't seem to produce files on my machine.

Things I've tried:

• I installed the VS2019 redistributable on the plugin page. (Though I have VS2019 installed)
• I tried "Software", NVENC, and x264 as encoders.
• I tried changing the record mode from 'always' to 'record' just to see if something wasn't triggering the start of recording.
• I tried an older version, 0.1.4 also doesn't produce a file.
• I tried changing the hard drive the recordings were going to be written to.
• I tried many different sources in OBS itself (Browser Sources, Video Devices, Scenes)
• I normally run OBS in administrator mode because of some CPU priority shenanigans, but I turned this off just in case.

Curiously the log file says "Writing File '<path to output file>'" but there's no file there.

Here's the full log of me starting up OBS, enabling the filter to record with x264, disabling the filter shortly after, and closing OBS. no_files.txt

I can't seem to think of anything else to fiddle with. If I find some time this week I'll build it from source to fiddle further. Though hopefully something stands out to you.

[LordTocs]

So I built everything from source and had a look around...

Good news I found the problem in the code. Not sure how too fix it though, still really new to the OBS codebase / plugins.

I hadn't selected "Different Audio" checkbox in my filter settings. So the encoder never had receive_audio called. Which caused obs_encoder::first_raw_ts to remain 0. Since first_raw_ts is 0 when receive_video is called it will early out and jump to a label wait_for_audio even though there's no audio coming. (The offending line in OBS is here https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/blob/master/libobs/obs-encoder.c#L1029) And since receive video never makes it far enough to call do_encode nothing gets sent to the outputs and so no file is written.

As a work around you can use the "Different Audio" checkbox to record some audio to the file, even if you don't end up needing it in the recording.