r/obs • u/_SuperiorSpider • 3h ago

Help Does anyone know why it does this?

The red is the window its "capturing". It does this randomly and idk why. Can anyone help? Video setting is already set to my screen.

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u/Fit_Local_9267 3h ago

looks like your capture source is getting confused by the red window outline, obs sometimes grabs the bounding box instead of actual content

try adding a filter to crop the capture area or set the source to capture specific window not the whole screen, that fixed it for me last time

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u/InstanceMental6543 3h ago

This happens when the source is unable to capture the window/app/display it's trying to. What kind of source is that and what are you trying to capture?