Every night I set my Plex DVR to record the Late Night/Tonight shows, and every night, one of them fails at random with a “Transcoder Error” It’s never the same show on consecutive nights, and the recordings seem to end at random times (sometimes they are 10 minutes, sometimes 1, etc). Tonight it was The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon that failed, I captured the log below. Can anyone tell me why these fail at random? (Plex 1.10.1.4561, Windows 10, HDHR Connect Quatro)
Dec 07, 2017 23:05:00.360 [7964] DEBUG - DVR:Grabber: Starting operation for 'The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon - E42 - James Franco; Niall Horan'.
Dec 07, 2017 23:05:00.360 [7964] DEBUG - Activity: registered new activity 69169de2-014c-473a-b06e-eb9b858ee2c3 - Recording
Dec 07, 2017 23:05:00.360 [7964] DEBUG - DVR:Grabber: HDHomerun starting a media grab on device device://tv.plex.grabbers.hdhomerun/1070267C (Silicondust HDHomeRun CONNECT, supported) tuner 1.
Dec 07, 2017 23:05:00.360 [7964] DEBUG - DVR:Subscription: Resolved subscription to library item 'The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon' (75532)
Dec 07, 2017 23:05:00.360 [7964] DEBUG - There were 1 top-level paths for The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.
Dec 07, 2017 23:05:00.360 [7964] DEBUG - DVR:Grabber: Saving recording to T:\TV_Shows\.grab\a6d4b67c705a81fab987001769e933890370e6e3
Dec 07, 2017 23:05:00.360 [7964] DEBUG - DVR:Grabber: Going to record for 3720 seconds, final URL is http://192.168.113.206:5004/auto/v5.1
Dec 07, 2017 23:05:00.360 [7964] DEBUG - DVR:Grabber: Setting timer to stop grab of 'The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon - E42 - James Franco; Niall Horan' in 3720 seconds.
Dec 07, 2017 23:05:00.360 [7964] DEBUG - DVR:Segmenter: Creating a new recorder for http://192.168.113.206:5004/auto/v5.1.
Dec 07, 2017 23:05:00.360 [7964] DEBUG - DVR:Grabber: Waiting for a tuner (3 available).
Dec 07, 2017 23:05:00.360 [7964] DEBUG - DVR:Grabber: Allocated a tuner (2 left)
Dec 07, 2017 23:05:00.360 [7964] DEBUG - We're going to try to auto-select an audio stream for account 1.
Dec 07, 2017 23:05:00.360 [7964] DEBUG - Selecting best audio stream for part ID -1 (autoselect: 1 language: en)
Dec 07, 2017 23:05:00.360 [7964] DEBUG - We're going to try to auto-select a subtitle.
Dec 07, 2017 23:05:00.360 [7964] DEBUG - Audio Stream: -1, Subtitle Stream: -1
Dec 07, 2017 23:05:00.360 [7964] ERROR - Unable to find title for item of type 5
Dec 07, 2017 23:05:00.360 [7964] DEBUG - MDE: analyzing media item -1
Dec 07, 2017 23:05:00.360 [7964] DEBUG - MDE: : no direct play video profile exists for http/mpegts/
Dec 07, 2017 23:05:00.360 [7964] DEBUG - MDE: : no direct play video profile exists for http/mpegts//
Dec 07, 2017 23:05:00.360 [7964] DEBUG - MDE: : codec is unavailable for analysis
Dec 07, 2017 23:05:00.360 [7964] DEBUG - MDE: : codec is unavailable for analysis
Dec 07, 2017 23:05:00.360 [7964] ERROR - Unable to find title for item of type 5
Dec 07, 2017 23:05:00.360 [7964] DEBUG - MDE: : selected media 0 / -1
Dec 07, 2017 23:05:00.360 [7964] DEBUG - Cleaning directory for session 9bff70d3-f464-4ddf-991d-4b133a5ad789 ()
Dec 07, 2017 23:05:00.360 [7964] DEBUG - Starting a transcode session 9bff70d3-f464-4ddf-991d-4b133a5ad789 at offset -1.0 (state=3)
Dec 07, 2017 23:05:00.360 [7964] DEBUG - Streaming Resource: Added session 0A1C6AE8:9bff70d3-f464-4ddf-991d-4b133a5ad789
Dec 07, 2017 23:05:00.360 [7964] DEBUG - TPU: hardware transcoding: enabled, but no hardware decode accelerator found
Dec 07, 2017 23:05:00.360 [7964] DEBUG - TPU: hardware transcoding: final decoder: , final encoder:
Dec 07, 2017 23:05:54.368 [7964] DEBUG - Started session successfully: 76fde1ed-ed7c-4294-bdbe-59b2076e9034
Dec 07, 2017 23:05:54.368 [10772] DEBUG - Jobs: 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Plex\Plex Media Server\PlexTranscoder.exe' exit code for process 10864 is 1
Dec 07, 2017 23:05:54.368 [7964] DEBUG - DVR:Recorder: It took 30.9 sec to start the session for http://192.168.113.206:5004/auto/v5.1
Dec 07, 2017 23:05:54.368 [9840] INFO - Notification: Recording The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon - E42 - James Franco; Niall Horan -
Dec 07, 2017 23:05:54.368 [10740] DEBUG - Jobs: 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Plex\Plex Media Server\PlexTranscoder.exe' exit code for process 10864 is 1
Dec 07, 2017 23:05:54.368 [10740] DEBUG - Jobs: 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Plex\Plex Media Server\PlexTranscoder.exe' exit code for process 10864 is 1
Dec 07, 2017 23:05:54.368 [10740] DEBUG - DVR:Recorder: Asked to stop recording 'The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon - E42 - James Franco; Niall Horan'.
Dec 07, 2017 23:05:54.368 [10740] DEBUG - DVR:Recorder: Stopping transcode session.
Dec 07, 2017 23:05:54.368 [10772] DEBUG - Jobs: 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Plex\Plex Media Server\PlexTranscoder.exe' exit code for process 10864 is 1
Dec 07, 2017 23:05:54.368 [10740] DEBUG - Killing job.
Dec 07, 2017 23:05:54.368 [10740] DEBUG - Job was already killed, not killing again.
Dec 07, 2017 23:05:54.368 [10740] DEBUG - Stopping transcode session 9bff70d3-f464-4ddf-991d-4b133a5ad789
Dec 07, 2017 23:05:54.368 [10740] DEBUG - Cleaning directory for session 9bff70d3-f464-4ddf-991d-4b133a5ad789 (C:\Users\Chris\AppData\Local\Plex Media Server\Cache\Transcode\Sessions\plex-transcode-9bff70d3-f464-4ddf-991d-4b133a5ad789)
Dec 07, 2017 23:05:54.368 [10740] DEBUG - DVR:Grabber: Freed a tuner (now 3 available)
Dec 07, 2017 23:05:54.368 [10740] DEBUG - DVR:Grabber: Recording for 'The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon - E42 - James Franco; Niall Horan' stopped with status error.
Dec 07, 2017 23:05:54.368 [10740] DEBUG - DVR:Grabber: Using recording status.
Dec 07, 2017 23:05:54.368 [10740] DEBUG - Activity: updated activity 69169de2-014c-473a-b06e-eb9b858ee2c3 - completed 100% - Recording
Dec 07, 2017 23:05:54.368 [10740] DEBUG - DVR:Grabber: Scheduling 'The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon - E42 - James Franco; Niall Horan' for assimilation.
Dec 07, 2017 23:05:54.368 [2360] DEBUG - DVR:Subscription: Resolved subscription to library item 'The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon' (75532)
Dec 07, 2017 23:05:54.368 [2360] DEBUG - There were 1 top-level paths for The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.
Dec 07, 2017 23:05:54.368 [2360] DEBUG - DVR:Grabber: Postprocessing, we're going to put `The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon - E42 - James Franco; Niall Horan` in `T:\TV_Shows\The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (2014)\Season 05\The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (2014) - S05E42 - James Franco; Niall Horan.ts`
Dec 07, 2017 23:05:54.384 [2360] DEBUG - DVR:Grabber: Operation for The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon - E42 - James Franco; Niall Horan completed with status error (There was a transcoder error)
Dec 07, 2017 23:05:54.384 [2360] DEBUG - Activity: Ended activity 69169de2-014c-473a-b06e-eb9b858ee2c3.
Dec 07, 2017 23:05:54.415 [4416] DEBUG - DVR:Recorder: Asked to stop recording 'The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon - E42 - James Franco; Niall Horan'.
