Upgrading to this version caused the issue to present itself. Let me know if any logs are needed.
This also causes my post processing script to fail since it looks like the transcoder is not closing the file.
I have attached the log file for the period when the show ended and the recording completed at 17:00, and then when I killed the transcoder process about 8 mins later and you can see everything completes. I have let things stay in this complete state overnight and then kill the process and things completed.
This is with HDhomerun and the DVR has been running with no issues since December, but I had not updated since 1.4.1.3362. I will roll back to that version if needed and no fix is in sight ?
The DVR is useless for me is there any help to resolve this issue? If I drop back to 1.4 I have codec issues on playback. Very frustrating seems like a serious regression?
The 1.7.x versions of PMS appears to have broken DVR functionality, downgrading back to 1.6.1 resolves the problem but it does not include Live TV.
See this thread for more information:
I just may have got my Plex working on PMS 1.7.6.4058… I’ve recorded 4 shows sucessfully so far but I won’t declare success until more time has passed.
One thing that I noticed that is different between 1.6.1 and 1.7.6 is that the shows remain with the red recording dot during post-processing (with MCEBuddy & ComSkip). With 1.6.1 and earlier the red dot went away and the play button showed up after the post-processing completed. With 1.7.6 the red dot stays there until the post-processing completes and then it changes to a play button.
Below is what I did to improve the situation.
- I moved my HDHomerun Extend tuners to another room and have them out in the open rather than inside an entertainment center where they were getting crazy hot.
- I rotated my roof antenna to the position I seem to get the best reception overall for the majority of the channels I watch.
- I used the HDHomerun software to check each channel one at a time for good signal and picture quality and manually disabled the channels that didn’t look good on the HDHomeRun Channel Lineup pages. I should point out that the “bad” channels all look perfectly fine on my TVs but apparently the HDHomeRun tuners aren’t as good at picking up the signal as real TVs are which kinda sucks because some of the channels I had to disable have shows I would have liked to record.
- Afterwards I did a re-scan from DVR settings within Plex and all the channels I had disabled on the HDHomeRun channel lineup pages were no longer found and as such the shows on the bad channels no longer show up in my program guide (unless they also aired on a good channel) so there is no chance Plex will try to record from those channels.
I’ll post back sometime tomorrow to let you all know if I continue to have success or if I’ll need to revert back to 1.6.1 again.
can someone upload v1. 6.1?
@cantenna here is a post I have made on several threads for how to get back to previous releases:
Removed for codec licensing restrictions.
So I’ve been running PMS 1.7.6.4058 for a couple days now and although I still have the issue of it saying like “2 tuners—11 recording now” and the Red dot with the orange circle showing 100% but not completing… HOWEVER… most shows are actually completing it’s just that with this version of PMS (unlike previous versions) it keeps the shows as “recording” until Post-Processing of the files completes with MCEBuddy/ComSkip. As my computer isn’t the most robust my MCEBuddy queue gets backed up quick and each episode takes over an hour to complete post-processing. I had previously setup my MCEBuddy to process 4 threads simultaneously and that was working fine on PMS 1.6.1 but apparently the files being produced by the new PMS are much larger so they take a lot longer for MCDBuddy to process.
That said most my recordings do eventually complete post-processing and then they look just fine. Once they finish Plex finally gets rid of the Red dot for that episode and replaces it with the play button.
I think I’m going to stick with PMS 1.7.6.4058 for now and hopefully some of the issues I’m still experiencing are fixed in a future release.
Meant this for another thread…my apologies.
So I copied the .ts DVR files from my server to my desktop and then ran them all through mkvtoolnix (and survived…relatively painless). Now they work just fine, through Plex. All videos were Tucker Carlson episodes that are 1 hr 4 min in length, at 720p with English and Spanish 5.1 AC3 tracks.
In the .ts container the files were 4.2GB in size. After running them through mkvtoolnix (keeping everything) the file size of all videos dropped to 3.83GB. What’s the extra, approximately 400MB of file size, in the .ts file there for? Seems the .ts files are taking up a good bit of extra space unnecessarily.
