Retroarch recording and sound

[hellricer]

Does gameplay recording through retroarch work for anyone without messing up the sound?

On almost every libretro core I tried, the start of the recording messes up the sound of the game (although the resulting video looks and sounds great).

The only three cores that work without messing up the audio are lr-bsnes, lr-snes9x* and lr-dosbox-pure. But what's interesting is that the recordings from these cores always end up in /home/pi while all the other cores respect the recording_output_directory property from retroarch.cfg

What's going on? It's like there are two different systems for recording although I always start it the same way through the retroarch menu.

[hellricer]

The reason why only snes and pc systems were working is that I had config file overrides for them 🤦‍♂️.

By comparing them to my global retroarch.cfg, I found out that having video_record_quality set to anything else but "4" (lossless) causes the audio issues while recording.

[2Play]

@hellricer I was about to say that you might have overrides (reading your top post), therefore the diff output location
on RA 1.15 the output dir is simply named records and the configs go to records_config folder (for example you can have custom config.cfg file in there.

As per RA docs you need also to have custom FFMPEG compile with
--enable-libx264 --enable-gpl --enable-libmp3lame options
but this does not fix the hissing sound which I believe you hear when you start the recording.
As you stated, the output file though is video/audio ok which I also confirm from my testings

Since you say you tested all other options in video_record_quality, you can test this override config and retest

Option 1:
Edit your main retroarch.cfg file in /configs/all/ and set
video_record_quality = "4"
and save. You can do from network share or locally to the file if easier for you.

Option 2:
create a config.cfg file, in /configs/all/retroarch/records_config/
and add the above line in there and save.

If you compile the ffmpeg as per docs you can add even more settings to it such as:

vcodec = libx264rgb
acodec = libmp3lame
audio_global_quality = 75
sample_rate = 44100
threads = 0
video_preset = ultrafast
video_record_quality = "4"

or just

video_record_quality = "4"

Then select in ra the file or again change in your retroarch.cfg
from
rgui_config_directory = ""
to
rgui_config_directory = "~/.config/retroarch/config"

Forgot to add. If you use shaders you should also enable in either option the
video_gpu_record = "true" default is false BUT i noticed with lossless it causing video stutter.