Server Version#: 1.18.4.2171
Player Version#: N/A
Tuner Make/Model: SD HDHR Connect Duo and Quatro
Guide/Lineup name:
Using XMLTV?:
Channel number/Name: Various Plex Media Server Logs_2020-02-22_20-44-33.zip (3.9 MB)
Certain longer shows consistently stop recording early. For example, my wife tries to record the 2 hours of Dateline on Friday night. Instead, week after week, the recording stops at 1 hour 33 minutes. She tries to record a one hour show, she gets 33 minutes. We have had similar problems for a long time now. Wiping the scheduled recordings and starting from scratch seemed to help some. I thought the issue, based on logs, was running out of room in the transcode temp path, so I updated it to something with more space.
The server is virtualized under Proxmox, but it should have sufficient cores and memory to handle the load.
Last night my wife tried to outsmart the Plex DVR by watching the content live, but she says at just about that 1:33 mark the live TV playback crashed with “mutliple playback errors.” It isn’t clear if there for sure is a connection, but it sure seems suspicious.
Since cleaning up the transcode temp path issue, I haven’t seen anything obvious in the logs, but I’m attaching them here in case someone can make heads or tails of them.
We switched to this from Windows Media Center a couple years back, and I’m sorry to say that it has been OK sometimes, but in general it has not been as reliable. But the server SW is open source, so maybe I’ll dig into it myself. If anyone has a pointer on where to start, I’d be glad to try and solve my own issue. Any offered support is appreciated.
Playback is almost always on Roku frontend devices, but that should not be relevant since this seems to purely be a server issue.
I know it’s been a couple months since OP posted, but I’ve been pulling my hair out for a bit with this same issue and just found this thread in which @WillieT351 describes my issue exactly. Recordings stop short during playback on Roku, but can be restarted and skipped to the point of stoppage to finish viewing. Very annoying but can’t figure out why it’s happening.
I have the same problem. I have 6 tuners (3 HDHomeRun Extend) and Plex is running on a Windows 8 Core - 3000Mhz / 24G memory / 30T disk “dedicated to Plex” box. When attempting to record the Evening News (ABC, NBC & CBS) at the same time. All recording attempts end recording 8-10 minutes into the 30 minute program. I have turned off “Allow partial Airings”. But still the recordings are too short or fail to start recording at all… My Problem also happens if I try to record just one program at a time… This problem has been happening now for a month. This problem happens regardless of Commercial removal settings (News = leave Commercials, Movies = remove Commercials)… No difference in length of recording (They are all too short)… My playback is on Roku and Apple TV…
The OP’s problem is somewhat self inflicted, he has the transcode directory added as part of his tv library and the scanner is probably thrashing itself to death with all the file changes.
