Using a WinTV-quadHD tuner which has worked well for years. Recently, DVR only records a few seconds the stops. Noticed live TV also plays for a few seconds, then buffers for several seconds, but then continues just fine. Any help would be appreciated. I am such a fan of Plex and sing its praise…

[image] chris299: wo and a Half Men (2003)/Season 08/Two and a Half Men (2003) - S08E12 - Der Mann ohne Freunde.ts it started at 13:55, recording started 13:52 (local time) and stopped with the past-end-issue at 13:52:14.712 channel was 305 name PRO7GRH Thank you for the diagnostics - Look …

I tried modifying the middle recording (at 21:00) to extend an extra 60 minutes after normal ending time, and it still failed after just a couple seconds.

[image] mandmmathis: I tried modifying the middle recording (at 21:00) to extend an extra 60 minutes after normal ending time, and it still failed after just a couple seconds I started looking at the diagnostics. It did not look the same as the issue that @chris299 has. Is the drive a local d…

I installed 1.32.2.7088, created a new library, and recorded 3 shows I had never recorded before: Let’s Make a Deal, at 10am-11am The Price is Right, at 11am-12pm WUSA News, at 12pm-1230pm All were recorded on CBS (channel 9.1). All were recorded with default settings (allow partial airings, pref…

[image] mandmmathis: As seen before, the middle show (Price is Right) only recorded a few seconds (13 in this case) before the recording stopped. Both the first show and the third show recorded the appropriate length (59 and 29 minutes, respectively). Logs are attached. That was a very good t…

The M: drive is a mapped network drive (Synology NAS), just using the normal “Map network drive” shortcut from right-click context menu in Windows. Not SMB, but not sure what protocol it uses. I’ve been recording to this drive for several years. I’ll PM the event logs shortly.

[image] mandmmathis: I’ll PM the event logs shortly. Thanks I needed to check if we were running out of local TCP dynamic port numbers - but we were not. The event log is not showing any of this happening So the failure we are trying to investigate is this set of transcoder errors May 18, …

[image] mandmmathis: I’ll PM the event logs shortly Further to the above - may be unrelated but connection to network drives seem to be failing at around same time in last few days - was this scheduled reboots of NAS ? or some network card issue ? [image] and also may be unrelated - tons …

[image] sa2000: The next thing to check out is going through this support article and see if MalwareBytes Premium is in use and blocking out the transcoder actions I don’t use MalwareBytes, premium or otherwise. [image] sa2000: Further to the above - may be unrelated but connection to ne…

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DVR records for a few seconds then stops

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