Xbox app won't play recorded video's

Yeah, you can only record games. You can't record videos or anything, obviously because of legal reasons.

The reason castle storm started again I'm guessing is because it was the last game you played. It won't open the last app, only the last game.

Hi,

Sorry but the video, as previously mentioned, will be lost now. The reason being is that the video container format Gamebar uses must finalise the file to complete the recording. This finalising process can only completed when the video recording is stopped in the app.

Should the computer crash or lockup for some reason and stop the recording, then the recorded file won't be finalised and is, unfortunately, lost.

I understand some third party recording applications such as OBS use different methods to record and may not be so susceptible to such issues.

Hi,

Kind of difficult one to diagnose. Your Windows GameBar recording (or other third party recording app) likely won't record this glitch as they just record that application, not the display.

Is this the only game your display does this?

Have you gone into your display settings or the video graphics driver settings and checked your display resolution and refresh rate are correct?

Hi TiberiusOptimus,

Normally, the Activity feed section in the Xbox app shows you all in-game activities, recorded games, and achievements that you unlocked. If you're using the Xbox app on your phone, it will not show that you're watching videos from the
Youtube app or from other apps. The same goes if you're watching videos from your computer unless you recorded it using the Game DVR feature in the Xbox app. Any video clips recorded using the Game DVR will show up in the Activity feed section.

Let us know if you have clarifications.

Hi,

They only thing I can suggest is looking at the folder where the video's are saved and looking at it with the hidden files also view-able.

Even if you do find a video there, it's likely to be corrupt and won't play. If there is nothing there then I'm afraid it didn't save and there won't be a way to retrieve it.

Game Bar uses your PCs graphics hardware to encode video's in real-time. Since this is accomplished in hardware, you can actually use third party applications to do the same thing. These other apps can even record your desktop.

If you have a gaming PC with a dedicated GPU from NVIDIA or AMD, you download their free software to do the same video recording that Game Bar can do.