diff --git a/plugins/obs-ffmpeg/obs-ffmpeg-output.c b/plugins/obs-ffmpeg/obs-ffmpeg-output.c
index 54bbf5bd..96818e7a 100644
--- a/plugins/obs-ffmpeg/obs-ffmpeg-output.c
+++ b/plugins/obs-ffmpeg/obs-ffmpeg-output.c
@@ -1193,7 +1193,7 @@ static int try_connect(struct ffmpeg_output *output)
 		blog(LOG_WARNING, "got channel id: %d", config.channel_id);
 	} else {
 		blog(LOG_WARNING, "unable to parse streamkey: %s", full_streamkey);
-		return OBS_OUTPUT_ERROR;
+		return OBS_OUTPUT_FTL_BAD_STREAM_KEY;
 	}