Server Version#: 1.19.3.2852 Player Version#: 8.1.0.17967 Tuner Make/Model: HDHomeRun Quatro Guide/Lineup name: Using XMLTV?: No Channel number/Name: All I’m curious how DVR live TV pause is supposed to work. I could be bad at searching, but I can’t find specifics. I see older posts, but n…

it may possibly be related to the size of your transcoder temp folder. are you using the default location, or have you specified a different path ? Plex Web > settings > transcoder > transcoder temp dir if you can reproduce it, or the next it happens, grab the server logs. plex web > settings > …

I will reproduce and post logs tomorrow. I did not specify a folder, it’s on the default SSD OS drive, but there is over 230GB free on that drive and nothing else using it, and the drive is not running out of space or anything. I also have the session timeout setting to 0, but it says that doesn’t…

Unfortunately I don’t know what the intended limit is on paused live tv, I rarely watch live, versus dvr recordings. Some folks use a tmpfs/ram drive with limited space, is why I asked about the path.

Makes sense, I am pretty new to Plex, so not sure where it’s saving, I have it empty and whatever the default is, I will do a little digging to see where it’s writing things when I do another pause

So not a space issue, but I paused this morning and let it pause for 33 minutes. When I started it again, it played for about 3 minutes and then it stopped, waiting, eventually got the error message, and then was able to reload the channel again. In the transcode folder the session is just gone, a…

How are you starting the Live TV session, by clicking on the channel number/icon or clicking play on the program. The difference is that starting via the program will kill the buffer 3 minutes past the end time.

I usually just go to the guide, find the channel, highlight what I want (name of the show) and just click enter and it loads up the session… I would also be fine if 3 minutes was the buffer, and I plan to test this more, but it seems like a 3 minute thing. But the UX should be much better. After …

I did some better searching and it’s probably this long standing issue [image] Plex Client Can't resume paused live tv after long pause Live TV & DVR I’ve been running into the exact same issue. Windows 10 server with a core i5, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD for the OS, dedicated 1…

How should DVR live TV pause work?

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dkmcgowan May 29, 2020, 2:51pm 9

I did some better searching and it’s probably this long standing issue

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How should DVR live TV pause work?

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