DVR recordings fail issue might be this:

[pshanew]

Today’s Plex Pass beta server release has a fix related to the tuner service not starting on Windows. Just FYI.

Plex Media Server

Plex Media Server 1.21.1.3753 is now available to PlexPass users in the Beta update channel. NEW: (Transcoder) Add support for the Intel Compute Runtime OpenCL driver versions 20.36 and later for newer integrated GPU models on Linux FIXES: (DVR) Plex Tuner Service would sometimes fail to start up on Windows, when machine was under load (#12035) (Library) Studio would be listed twice in custom filters (#12124) (Pivots) Only display playlist pivot if it is non-empty (#12097) (Scanner) New mo…