DVR recordings too long and delayed

Live TV & DVR
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I’m hoping someone can give me suggestions where to start looking to figure this out. For the last 2 weeks, Magnum PI has started recording very late and is listed as a partial recording. We also record Hawaii 5-0 on the same channel immediately before it.

It seems to me that Hawaii 5-0 is recording longer than it needs to. It records 6 minutes after the show ends after Comskip does its thing. It is set up to record an extra 4 minutes, but maybe that’s close enough to allow for my time being different from TV time.

But then Magnum (which is supposed to start 3 minutes early) doesn’t start for 5 minutes or more after Hawaii 5-0 stops recording, so even if I go back and watch the beginning of Magnum on the tail end of H5-0, there’s still a significant gap.

I don’t think it’s an EPG issue. It claims to know when it is supposed to start and stop.

Where should I look? What should I do.

This seems like a good time to again request manual recording. If I just recorded that channel from 7:00-10:00, I’d be good.

Plex PMS, Ubuntu 18.04, AMD 2400G, Multiple HD Homeruns.

Thanks for any suggestions.

Mike

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It is now 3 weeks in a row. Magnum (Denver, Channel 4.1, Friday Night 8:00) only records as a partial recording. I disabled ComSkip and it still seems to skip the 3 minutes of padding and the first three minutes of the show. The recording is then flagged as partial. I’ve dug through logs, but there are a lot of different files. Any suggestion which one I should be look through?

I haven’t watched everything I’ve recorded, but I’ve watched a lot. This is the only show for which this happens. The EPG is planning on recording the correct time.

Next steps?

Thanks,
Mike

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I get this randomly as well. Just happened this week with The Resident. Yet other shows around the same time recorded just fine.

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We’ll see what happens this week. Plex currently recognizes 4 tuners. It is scheduled to need 2 tuners 6:57-8:03, 1 from 7:50-9:03 window, and 1 8:57-10:04.