I watch live tv on my windows system, which itself is running Media Server. I have about 15GB of free space on my SSD, but when I watch live TV for about 45 minutes to an hour, I start getting the “low disk space” notification. Ultimately, it seems to go into a paging file or something, because it never actually crashes the drive.
However, with all these issues that are happening with recording the olympics, one of the things that has happened to me twice over the past couple of days is that while watching and recording, it eventually craps out, and both halt. To make matters worse, stopping and restarting the server doesn’t resolve the issue. Whenever I attempt to watch an olympics broadcast live, the buffer bar from the time the live stream crashed shows up, I get the spinning wheel, and it never begins to stream. It’s as if there’s a residual failed file somewhere, and when I attempt to watch a new “episode”, it still registers as the previous crashed one, and tries to make it sync up, which never succeeds…
I’m beginning to suspect that this may be due to the cache/low disk space that happens on live stream. My suspicion is that when the file dumps to the paging file (I suspect exists), there’s a clash between the recording and the live stream, causing both to crash irrecoverably
I am not using the Live TV feature so can’t say for sure that it utilizes the same mechanism as the rest of Plex, but the general transcoder setting might help. Look here for instructions - https://support.plex.tv/articles/200250347-transcoder/
Transcoder temporary directory
Directory to use when transcoding temporary files for streaming. This is useful if your primary drive has limited space. The directory used (whether default or not) needs sufficient free space, roughly equal to the size of the source file of the transcode plus 100MB.
This setting does not affect where transcoded files are stored for background transcoding tasks (sync or Media Optimizer). See Where are sync transcodes stored on my computer?
@Peter_W said:
I am not using the Live TV feature so can’t say for sure that it utilizes the same mechanism as the rest of Plex, but the general transcoder setting might help. Look here for instructions - https://support.plex.tv/articles/200250347-transcoder/
Transcoder temporary directory
Directory to use when transcoding temporary files for streaming. This is useful if your primary drive has limited space. The directory used (whether default or not) needs sufficient free space, roughly equal to the size of the source file of the transcode plus 100MB.
This setting does not affect where transcoded files are stored for background transcoding tasks (sync or Media Optimizer). See Where are sync transcodes stored on my computer?
I didn’t see any improvement. In fact, I think I may have noticed some degradation. two concurrent recordings started failing, as well as back-to-back… now, with the current instability of the platform due to the olympics workload I’ve been putting on it, who knows if that was related. but I set it back
