Fault Tolerant Recordings
Some video formats hold some important information in memory until the recording is complete.
This means in the event of a power outage or system failure these recordings may be corrupt and difficult to recover.
TIP: Use the "New File Every" option to create new recordings at regular intervals so if one file is lost in event of a power outage, the majority of the recording can be recovered.
The following table describes the fault tolerance of each recording format supported by vMix:
Type |
File Format |
Fault Tolerant? |
AVI |
AVI |
No |
AVI |
MKV |
Yes |
MPEG-2 |
MPG |
Yes |
MPEG-2 |
TS |
Yes |
MP4 |
MP4 |
No |
WMV |
WMV |
Yes |
FFMPEG |
MXF |
Yes |
FFMPEG |
MOV |
Yes |
FFMPEG |
MP4 |
Yes |
FFMPEG |
MOV (Indexed) |
No |
FFMPEG |
MP4 (Indexed) |
No |
MPEG-2 TS (Transport Stream) is the best fault tolerant format out of the above.