# Individual recording with H.264

**URL:** <https://openvidu.discourse.group/t/individual-recording-with-h-264/4221>\
**Category:** Issues developing apps\
**Tags:** v2\
**Created:** [October 5, 2022, 11:18am UTC](https://openvidu.discourse.group/t/individual-recording-with-h-264/4221 "2022-10-05T11:18:04Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 5, 2022, 11:18am UTC](https://openvidu.discourse.group/t/individual-recording-with-h-264/4221/1 "2022-10-05T11:18:04Z")

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Hi everybody,

at the moment I have a working configuration with sending and recording streams by an android application. The android application is streaming with VP8 - recording is working fine.

I wanted to test my environment with forcing OpenVidu to use H.264 - just to see if quality, cpu consumption if android device or rendering recorded streams with ffmpeg could be improved by using H.264 instead VP8.

If I force OpenVidu to use H.264 - steaming is ok - but individual recording is not working. An error appears in Kurento log:  
`[OpenH264] this = 0x0x7f919801b980, Error: the pic_width_in_mbs exceeds the level limits!`

Is it really not possible to use individual recording with H.264? Dependent on Kurento docs it should?  
[https://doc-kurento.readthedocs.io/en/latest/knowledge/mp4.html#mp4-fast-start-in-kurento](https://doc-kurento.readthedocs.io/en/latest/knowledge/mp4.html#mp4-fast-start-in-kurento)