PMS crashing when recording live TV

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Upgraded to macOS 26, now liveTV isn't working

This appears to be related to transcoding. Many clients will require the MPEG2 stream provided by most broadcasts to be transcoded. While not ideal, disabling hardware-accelerated video encoding allows live TV to work under macOS 26 in my environment (MacBook Air M2). Settings -> [Select Server] -> Transcoder -> User hardware-accelerated video encoding Disabling it will force encoding to be done in software.