Fault Tolerant Recordings

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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.