[ WiiU ] Recording/Twitch Streaming In RetroArch Causes a Bad Memory Crash

[doritobob269]

Description

I am on WiiU and when I start a recording or start streaming, RA crashes.

Expected behavior

RetroArch shouldn't crash. My gameplay should continue and be recorded or should be streamed depending on which option I picked.

Actual behavior

I get a crash screen when I start recording and I get the same crash when I start to stream to Twitch.

Steps to reproduce the bug

1. Load RA on WiiU
2. Enable Recording Menu and set a directory to save recordings to.
3. Enter Twitch Stream Key into recording/stream settings.
4. Launch mGBA.
5. Load any .gb rom.
6. In quick menu, click start recording or click start streaming.
7. RA crashes.

Bisect Results

This only started happening once I tried to record or stream from RA. Under recording driver in retroarch.cfg it = "" and I don't have the option to select another driver though the RA menu.

Version/Commit

You can find this information under Information/System Information

• RetroArch: 1.10.3

Environment information

• OS: WiiU
• Compiler: GCC (6.3.0) 32-bit

[hizzlekizzle]

I think it's to be expected that recording/streaming doesn't work, as I don't think ffmpeg is available on wii u. However, I'm surprised the options are still visible. Usually stuff that's just straight-up nonfunctional is hidden at compile time.

[doritobob269]

I think it's to be expected that recording/streaming doesn't work, as I don't think ffmpeg is available on wii u. However, I'm surprised the options are still visible. Usually stuff that's just straight-up nonfunctional is hidden at compile time.

Yea, from my research online ffmpeg doesn't come on wiiu, but I was able to find a library for ffmpeg, but it can't be installed directly on wiiu I guess? It needs to be included in at compile time? I'm somewhat new to this low level homebrewing my wiiu.

And all I had to do to get the recording menu to open was set the directory for recording under directory settings. I noticed you could enter a Twitch/Youtube/Facebook Gaming Stream Key under account settings without needing to change any settings.

[hizzlekizzle]

Yeah, it has to be linked in at compile-time, unfortunately.

[ashquarky]

There are a few builds of ffmpeg out there for wiiu; though the hardware isn't really powerful to encode video in realtime. Options should definitely be hidden..