The sources of OBS Studio cover a game, a window, a capture card, an image, a text or the whole display, and the resolution of the source should match the resolution of the game.
gameplay recording
Recording of a game to a blog post in English
Recording of a game to a blog post in English: send the file and get the text with the timecodes. One file may be up to 30 minutes on the free plan, no minute limit on Pro.
3 files a day up to 30 minutes, free99+ languagesSpeaker separation and timestamps
In short
What the Gameplay stores is what the engine needs. The English speech becomes the blog post in the sections Headline and lead, Outline, Draft; one file may be up to 30 minutes, and 3 files a day are free.
How to get the file and turn it into a blog post
- 1
Set the output
In the Output section the resolution of the recording and the scale filter are chosen
- 2
Hand the file over
The Recording of a game goes to the service through the upload widget; the speech is English, and the blog post comes back into the chat.
- 3
Ask for the blog post
The ready instruction reads the transcript of the Recording of a game as the author of the post, and the blog post comes in the sections Headline and lead, Outline, Draft.
- 4
Name the language of the speech
The speech of the Recording of a game is English, one of the 99+ languages the engine reads, and the widget is left on English while the blog post is written.
- 5
Check the file before the upload
In the table of the codecs and the containers of OBS Studio the MKV takes the H.264, HEVC, AV1 and ProRes video codecs and the AAC, ALAC, FLAC, Opus and PCM audio codecs
What comes back from the engine
- TXT
One segment per line, the way a person wrote it down. It is the format to paste into a ticket, a chat or a document.
- TXT, CSV
The start and the end time of every segment, and the speakers named separately when you ask for it.
- SRT, VTT
SRT and VTT with the time of every line, so the recording can carry its own subtitles.
- Markdown, DOCX
The transcript is edited through the API and exported as Markdown for a wiki, or as DOCX for a review.
What Gameplay keeps, and what it says about it
The resolution of the recording is set in the Output section with the scale filter: a source in 1080p can be recorded in 720p.
The name of the file of the recording holds the year, the month, the day and the time with hours, minutes and seconds.
The MKV container is the default one of OBS Studio, it supports every single codec combination of the program and it is not corrupted as a whole when the recording stops without a graceful ending.
In the table of the codecs and the containers of OBS Studio the MKV takes the H.264, HEVC, AV1 and ProRes video codecs and the AAC, ALAC, FLAC, Opus and PCM audio codecs.
up to 30 minutes on the free plan, no minute limit on Pro
$0: 3 files a day, up to 30 minutes per file, no card
$10 a month when you pay yearly ($120 a year), or $20 a month
The case
What the recording does not give you
The Recording of a game from the Gameplay holds the voices and the order of the words. The resolution of the recording is set in the Output section with the scale filter: a source in 1080p can be recorded in 720p. From that text comes the blog post, in the sections Headline and lead, Outline, Draft.
Tips
Read the sections of the blog post before you send it on.
Set the language of the Recording of a game before you send the file.
Rename the file of the Recording of a game before you send it.
Questions about Recording of a game and a blog post
Which problems can come with the Recording of a game?
The name of the file of the recording holds the year, the month, the day and the time with hours, minutes and seconds. The engine does not change the file of the Recording of a game; it reads it as it is and writes the blog post.
What does the Gameplay keep for the Recording of a game?
An MP4 file has to be finalised to be playable: if the writing is interrupted for any reason, the file may not be recoverable. The file of the Recording of a game is the input of the engine, and the blog post is written from it.
What comes back after the English Recording of a game is read?
the blog post in the sections Headline and lead, Outline, Draft, with the time of every line of the recording of the Recording of a game.
How long may the file be, and how much is free?
One file may be up to 30 minutes on the free plan, and the free plan gives 3 files a day for the blog post.
Where does the file of the Recording of a game wait?
On the Gameplay. The facts of the table above name the place where the file of the Recording of a game is kept and the way it comes off.
Related pages
- The same task on iphone screen recording to text interview to quotes ruThe same task on another recording, with the same steps and the same sections.
- Video to a blog postThe page of the task: the instruction that is written for it and an example of the answer.
- Transcribe audio to textWhat the service does with a file: the formats of the export, the limits and the plans.
Sources
- OOBS Knowledge Base: OBS Studio Overview (read 2026-10-25)obsproject.com · checked
- OOBS Knowledge Base: Standard Recording Output Guide (read 2026-10-25)obsproject.com · checked
- OOBS Knowledge Base: Audio and Video Formats Guide (read 2026-10-25)obsproject.com · checked
- TTranscription service page (read 2026-10-25)transcrib.si · checked
- TPricing page (read 2026-10-25)transcrib.si · checked
Reading: 4 minutesUpdated Transcribsi editorial team
Drop a recording — the text arrives in a minute
Speakers by name, a time on every line, export to TXT, SRT, VTT, CSV and Markdown.
3 files a day up to 30 minutes, free99+ languagesSpeaker separation and timestamps