Playblast problem "From render settings".

[shvageranya]

Hi!
I have weird situation on my PC witn AMD Ryzen 9 and Maya 2020.
When I try to use "From Window" in Playblast options, resolution HD_1080(qt, H.264) and Scale 1 - everything is ok. With the Scale less than 1 also ok. But.
When my Playblast optionts have "From render setting", resolution HD_1080(qt, H.264) and Scale 1 - playblast crushes on 47 Frame, every time in every shot. Helps just changing Scale to 90 or less.

How could I fix this bug?

[hamsterHamster]

Can't replicate error in M2019, both scenarios work here.

• Does regular playback passes #47 normally? - to rule out that scene contents are cause of the crash.
• Does playblast crashes if you do the capture with your active panel maximized AND ToolOptions AND ChannelBox AND AttributeEditor collapsed to tabs? This might rule out hardware/driver issues on buffer down scaling, if you are working on a display resolution larger than 1080HD.

[shvageranya]

1. Frame 47 is fine, as the problem occurs in every scene, not just one. That is, no matter what the scene contains and what size it is, the playblast always breaks at frame 47. And yes. regular playback also ok.

2. Whether or not the tabs are deployed is also irrelevant. The size of the programme window itself also has no effect on the error.

[boardingbenny1990]

I'm getting the exact same issue in Maya 2022 with HD Render setting QT H264. It worked for 1 day. It drops on frame 44 every time and in every scene!

Did you find a solution to this?

[NataliaTMJPH]

Have you find an answer? I'm using maya 2023 and just upgraded my pc to a ryzen 9 amd, before upgrading, it would work fine, but now i can't change to render settings not sure if the cpu makes a different, but now that you mentioned....

[shvageranya]

I've just written a custom script for playblast in H264 and used it for myself. 
You can download it here:
https://shvageranya.gumroad.com/l/tqtdi?layout=profile
I hope it helps!

[shvageranya]

I've just written the custom Playblast script and used it for myself.
If you still have this problem - you can download my script here:
https://shvageranya.gumroad.com/l/tqtdi?layout=profile 
I hope it helps! 

[amcurrie]

Just to share this for people searching in the future,

This problem is related to using the discontinued Quicktime codecs for playblasting from Maya, when your CPU has more than 16 threads.  The old Quicktime software doesn't know how to handle that many threads.  This will affect a lot of people since most animators I know use the Quicktime work-around to account for Autodesk's missing codecs.  The error message in the Script Editor reads:

// Error: line 0: playblast: Failed to write frame 27 into movie file. // 
// Error: line 0: out of disk space.  Deleting playblast files // 

I found this info in a few places:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Maya/comments/tjapoz/h264_playblast_crashes/
https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/maya-forum/playblast-can-only-produce-540p-not-1080p/td-p/9074993
https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/maya-animation-and-rigging/maya-unable-to-playblast-in-hd-1080-qt-h26...

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/maya-forum/playblast-can-only-produce-540p-not-1080p/td-p/9074993

Possible solutions:

• Playblast at any size smaller than 1920x1080 (which is why your scale of 0.9 was working)
• Use Mpeg-4 as your codec instead of h.264
• Use uncompressed AVI as your codec, then use encoder software (like Handbrake) to compress that file later.  Note: Windows doesn't support AVI's bigger than 2GB, so you may have to playblast in pieces and put them together later.  Not ideal.
• Use a third-party plugin for playblasting like Zurbrigg's "Advanced Playblast"
• Disable hyperthreading for your CPU in BIOS