diff --git a/UI/window-basic-main-outputs.cpp b/UI/window-basic-main-outputs.cpp
index 0bf0fb919..30a1280f6 100644
--- a/UI/window-basic-main-outputs.cpp
+++ b/UI/window-basic-main-outputs.cpp
@@ -837,8 +837,7 @@ bool SimpleOutput::StartStreaming(obs_service_t *service)
 
 static void remove_reserved_file_characters(string &s)
 {
-	replace(s.begin(), s.end(), '/', '_');
-	replace(s.begin(), s.end(), '\\', '_');
+	replace(s.begin(), s.end(), '\\', '/');
 	replace(s.begin(), s.end(), '*', '_');
 	replace(s.begin(), s.end(), '?', '_');
 	replace(s.begin(), s.end(), '"', '_');
diff --git a/plugins/obs-ffmpeg/obs-ffmpeg-mux.c b/plugins/obs-ffmpeg/obs-ffmpeg-mux.c
index 53f189220..70b42184a 100644
--- a/plugins/obs-ffmpeg/obs-ffmpeg-mux.c
+++ b/plugins/obs-ffmpeg/obs-ffmpeg-mux.c
@@ -863,6 +863,13 @@ static void replay_buffer_save(struct ffmpeg_muxer *stream)
 		dstr_cat_ch(&stream->path, '/');
 	dstr_cat(&stream->path, filename);
 
+	char *slash = strrchr(stream->path.array, '/');
+	if (slash) {
+		*slash = 0;
+		os_mkdirs(stream->path.array);
+		*slash = '/';
+	}
+
 	bfree(filename);
 	obs_data_release(settings);