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Locate the section and the Filename Formatting field.

If you want your future recordings to have more descriptive names instead of just a timestamp, you can customize this in OBS: Go to > Advanced . 2022-12-29 19-30-18.mkv

This video was started on December 29, 2022 , at 7:30:18 PM . Locate the section and the Filename Formatting field

The Matroska Video container is the recommended default in OBS because it is crash-resistant. If OBS or your computer crashes during recording, the data saved up to that point is preserved, unlike MP4 files which can become completely unreadable. How to Use the File The Matroska Video container is the recommended default

If you need to edit this file in software that doesn't support MKV or want to upload it to certain social media platforms, you should remux it rather than re-encoding to avoid quality loss. Open OBS Studio. Go to File > Remux Recordings .

The file is a video recording typically generated by OBS Studio (Open Broadcaster Software). This specific naming convention is the default format used by OBS to identify when a recording started: YYYY-MM-DD HH-MM-SS . Understanding Your File