I am also having the recording stalling issue. For now I have downgraded to 1.6.1 which has fixed it for me.
Plex is running on a Debian 8 Linux server (Openmediavault). Tuners are HD Home Run Connect.
@DaveBinM fresh logs
I have the same issue and moving back to 1.6.1 is currently working for me also. I suspect the issue may have something to do with signal quality (not to be confused with signal strength).
What I have noticed is when running 1.8.1 it seemed to get stuck when recording weaker stations. I’m wondering if some changes were made to implement Live TV that reacts differently to a signal drop out or pixelation?
My weaker stations occasionally get some pixelation and drop outs when watching TV. I adjusted my antenna slightly using the HD Homerun Config GUI and got all of the stations I have tuned to all come in well above the 70% threshold were the GUI shows the signal quality as yellow instead of green.
Here is what I appears to be happening on recording stations with weak signals so far:
1.6.1 Records and some pixelation may show up
1.8.1 Records and sometimes freezes (stalls at 100%)
1.8.2 Records and aborts the recording if it loses the signal
I’m fortunate I have several machines to test from. I have tested from the following platforms:
Windows 7 using Plex 1.8.1 and (2) WinTV HVR 1265 tuners
Windows 7 using Plex 1.8.2 and (1) HDHomeRun Connect
Ubuntu 16.04.1 using Plex 1.8.1 and (1) HDHomeRun Connect
Ubuntu 16.04.1 using Plex 1.6.1 and (1) HDHomeRun Connect
Windows 7 using Plex 1.6.1 and (1) HDHomeRun Connect - Current environment
Anyone see similar results?
@markedman1132 I don’t think its signal as it always happens shortly after 48 hours up time for me running WinTV quad and hdhomerun on windows 10 with the latest update as WinTV is not supported on 1.6.1i cant downgrade
edit 1: I take that back just had a lockup just hours after reboot
@DaveBinM fresh logs
Hey everyone. I’m having the same problem as everyone else here with the recordings stuck past 100%. They just continue until I restart plex.
At this point I applaud all of you for your efforts to help get this problem fixed. However, from my perspective, I only started with plex last month and I don’t have the time or patience to wait until this is fixed.
I’m cancelling my subscription to Plex Pass and I think this problem deserves more attention than it’s getting.
I have the same setup as others. 1 WinTV quad and 1 HDHomerun.
@nicksphone0161 I think I’m good for logs for now, I have quite the backlog to get through 
@DaveBinM said:
@nicksphone0161 I think I’m good for logs for now, I have quite the backlog to get through
@markedman1132 might be onto something its not stopped raining for the last 24 hours and I have had to reboot 3 times but I get a strong enough signal to pickup 906 free view channels so the local tower with 186 channels which I am tuned into (since pretty much all the same channels) should come in fine no matter the weather. but never the less food for thought.
Hey folks, this is anecdotal but thus far I have not yet had reoccurrence after manually setting a transcoder temp directory in settings. I actually set it to help with a different issue, but it has perhaps fixed this for me as well. Could just be a coincidence, but worth a shot maybe.
I’m on PMS 1.8.1.4139 right now.
set a location at…
settings->server>transcoder->Transcoder temporary directory
@lorddoskias said:
Hey folks, this is anecdotal but thus far I have not yet had reoccurrence after manually setting a transcoder temp directory in settings. I actually set it to help with a different issue, but it has perhaps fixed this for me as well. Could just be a coincidence, but worth a shot maybe.I’m on PMS 1.8.1.4139 right now.
set a location at…
settings->server>transcoder->Transcoder temporary directory
interesting thought but I’m not transcoding mine its just recording in the source format but I set It up all the same.
@nicksphone0161 I’m not transcoding anything either, but good luck. Maybe it will help.
Since starting with 1.7.0 when Plex was preparing for Live TV they started creating small files of roughly one second in length and then must reassemble those individual files into a complete single file when the recording is finished you are seeing the transcode process running and it is using a transcode folder where it is temporarily storing these individual files for all recordings.
I seem to have this issue only with one channel, NBC and one show, AMW. The last several weeks it’s worked for the entire week and then come Monday it chokes on AMW. It seems like it’s judging my choice of reality TV. 
But that may be a clue as to why it is failing.
@willco007 - This might be a coincidence but mine also chokes on my NBC affiliate (just did yesterday in fact). I’ve noticed it happening on America’s Got Talent, and only if the server has been up and running for a few days. It records OK (with some hiccups in the video and audio) if I’ve restarted the server right before recording.
So that’s it, Plex is judging our reality TV preferences. 
I have the same issue. My setup is as follows.
PlexServer running on windows 10 64bit
RAM: 16gb @ 2400mhz…
CPU: Ryzen 7 1800x with liquid cooling…
5 harddrives… as follows
1) C drive (256gb SSD):
- Plex and OS installed on SSD drive
2) E drive (1TB 6gbs Sata 3). - My fastest drive, where MCEBuddy does it magic and I keep my higher quality recording shows, ones that get deleted often
3) P drive (5TB 3gbp sata 2)… - My bulk drive, for keeping old shows that I keep full seasons of…
4) R drive (2x ~250gb sata 2 laptop drives in RAID-0) - Newest addition, < 24hrs since I setup… used strictly for plex transcoding… problem has been ongoing for month or two, so setup here is unrelated.
2 x HDHomeRun Prime’s
I run MCEBuddy2x for converting those huge mpeg2video ts files into mp4 and a batch script I found and have since heavily modified myself.
I Cant seem to find the catalyst but I do see it happen more often when recordings are going on and someone is watching a video, albeit on plex web or roku, doesnt matter.
What happened just under an hour ago, I got finished watching an episode of Through The Wormhole and went to check on my recordings, noticed about half a dozen or so of them should have been queued up in MCEBuddy but I found NONE, I now have a shortcut to “Resource Monitor” on my taskbar just for this purpose, I click it and go to CPU->Scroll down to PlexTranscoder.exe and check every one of them… Then I go down to the section labeled “Associated Handles” and sort by “Handle Name” and look for any in either E or P path… especially if it was the show I was just watching and in this scenario there were 5 of them running for my Through the Wormhole running… Killed those and presto, my batch script that was running in loops trying to add all those shows added them. Now they are converting… Problem isnt always so easy to spot tho, sometimes its a show in .grab folder… I look for any that were done recording and especially the oldest one or two and thats usually the culprit, kill the process and presto… Hope that helps and most especially the developers… Thanks for your time!
EDIT: uploaded server log… error occurred sometime around when episode Iceman was to record… hope that helps!
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I think I named everyone on this thread this seems to have fixed it for me im at 3 days of not getting the 100% stuck. by setting the transcoder directory instead of leaving it blank its seems to be working correctly now. i was on almost a day without issue before changing this setting making this the longest none error for me by 14hours. hopefully its not just a fix for my issues.
settings->server>transcoder->Transcoder temporary directory. thanks @lorddoskia thanks for the heads up.
@nicksphone0161 Happy it seems to be working for you as well. Guess I’m not crazy. Mine is going on about two weeks with no reoccurrence at this point, a definite record for me as well. Linux users do need to be a bit careful where they put the directory, but hopefully this is can be verified more, and give the devs an idea of where to focus.
Unfortunately I have always had that set and not helped me. Just trying a single program record with the latest public update to see how it goes.
One thing I did notice is that in my /transcode directory it has created two session folders for this recording and is only filling one of them (with hundreds of <500kb files) each 1 second long
@borochris said:
Unfortunately I have always had that set and not helped me. Just trying a single program record with the latest public update to see how it goes.
One thing I did notice is that in my /transcode directory it has created two session folders for this recording and is only filling one of them (with hundreds of <500kb files) each 1 second long
maybe a disk thrashing issue for you then is it a slow hd like a 5400? or do you have a small ssd you can throw in there for the constant file writing.
no its a hybrid disk so fastest I have
