OBS stopped working out of the blue (Solved)

Operating Systems & Open Source Linux
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Heyyyy you guyssss! I have been using OBS to recored some of my CS:GO games and other stuff for School but recently (like as of 20 min ago) it has totally stooped working. I really don't know what it might be but it keeps giving me this error when I open it up.

"Failed to create recording h264 encoder (advanced output)"

The output on my terminal is this 

[eddy@rei ~]$ obs
Attempted path: share/obs/obs-studio/locale/en-US.ini
Attempted path: /usr/share/obs/obs-studio/locale/en-US.ini
Attempted path: share/obs/obs-studio/locale.ini
Attempted path: /usr/share/obs/obs-studio/locale.ini
Attempted path: share/obs/obs-studio/license/gplv2.txt
Attempted path: /usr/share/obs/obs-studio/license/gplv2.txt
QObject::connect: invalid null parameter
info: OBS 0.8.3-62-geb7d631 (linux)
info: Processor: 4 logical cores
info: Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2540M CPU @ 2.60GHz
info: Physical Memory: 7871MB Total
info: Kernel Version: Linux 3.19.2-1-ARCH
info: Distribution: "Arch Linux" Unknown
info: audio settings reset:
	samples per sec: 44100
	speakers:        2
	buffering (ms):  1000

info: X and Y: 902 468
Backbuffers: 2
Color Format: 3
ZStencil Format: 0
Adapter: 0

info: OpenGL version: 3.3 (Core Profile) Mesa 10.5.1

info: video settings reset:
	base resolution:   1600x900
	output resolution: 1064x600
	fps:               30/1
error: os_dlopen(/usr//lib/obs-plugins/obs-x264.so->/usr//lib/obs-plugins/obs-x264.so): libx264.so.142: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

warning: Module '/usr//lib/obs-plugins/obs-x264.so' not found
info: output 'adv_stream' (rtmp_output) created
info: output 'adv_file_output' (flv_output) created
info: output 'adv_stream' destroyed
info: output 'adv_file_output' destroyed
error: Failed to create recording h264 encoder (advanced output)

And this is what I see on my screen

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The problem looks to be in a H264 file that OBS tells me I'm missing but when I look it is there and looks fine.
If you guys are seeing anything I'm missing or would like to help fix this bug I would appreciate it. :D

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I'm not very familiar with this program, if this module that that is not found is one that OBS provided or if it's a package that was provided externally.

Try re-installing the software if it has this module built in, and if it's external try re-installing just that.

Did you do a system update prior to the program stopped working?

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Thanks a reinstall fixed it

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I didn't see that there was an extra / there earlier. I wonder how that happened. It means the symlink that linked to the module broke somehow. Strange.

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That's probably why a reinstall fixed it :p