# Plex stops playing live TV shortly
**URL:** https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-stops-playing-live-tv-shortly/656850
**Category:** Plex Media Server
**Tags:** server-linux, player-windows
**Created:** [November 24, 2020, 12:15am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-stops-playing-live-tv-shortly/656850 "2020-11-24T00:15:06Z")
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### Author:  [@codemaker](https://forums.plex.tv/u/codemaker)
#### Post date: [November 24, 2020, 12:15am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-stops-playing-live-tv-shortly/656850/1 "2020-11-24T00:15:07Z")
Server Version#: 1.20.5.3600-47c0d9038
Player Version#: 1.23.0.1435-e10e14cf
Hi,
I installed Plex server on Debian 10. I connect to it using the Plex client on Windows. On my Plex server, I added an m3u file to watch live TVs through using xTeVe v2.
The problem is that Plex stops playing back after a few minutes. There is nothing with my IPTV services because I have Jellyfin installed and it works OK there.
I tried to monitor the directory that Plex uses for transcoding and I noticed that the playback stops when the size of the transcoding files reaches about 120MB and it doesn’t go over that.
Is there a size limit for the trancoder to use? Can you please point me to the right direction to solve this issue?
Thanks.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 22, 2021, 12:15am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-stops-playing-live-tv-shortly/656850/2 "2021-02-22T00:15:34Z")
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