Emby recorded game, but does not show in DVR

[knoll126 10]

Hi, 

Emby recorded a basketball game I had set to record. I can not see it in the DVR folder within Emby. Even after selecting "scan library files" the recording does not appear. I can see it when looking on my network drive though. It also shows up in Plex for example, they both share the same DVR folder.

Thanks!

embyserver-63901958399.txt

Edited December 22, 2025 by knoll126

[sa2000 674]

6 hours ago, knoll126 said:

Even after selecting "scan library files" the recording does not appear.

I don't see the log covering that

Does the issue arise with some recordings only ?

What media files show in the library for the NCAA Men's Basketball ?

So you are using a custom path of "/media/DVR" for recordings, can you get screenshots of all the library settings for metadata. Also what you have defined in the Live TV Advanced Settings

These timestamps for modified date/time look odd 

The log shows the thumb.png was saved at 15:00 for the recording  - where did the 2:48pm timestamp come from

2025-12-21 15:00:27.726 Info LiveTV: Saving recording image to /media/DVR/NCAA Men's Basketball/NCAA Men's Basketball 2025_12_21_15_00_00 - Oregon Ducks at #7 Gonzaga Bulldogs-thumb.png

Is the /media/DVR is on a seprate system?

You could enable Debug logging on the emby server, (settings / server / logs / settings) and restart the server and do a scan and then see if the recording gets picked up in the library. If  not attach the log = you can include that with the screenshots I mentioned

 

[knoll126 10]

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Does the issue arise with some recordings only ?

I have only noticed this one, but only been using emby for about a month now.
 

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What media files show in the library for the NCAA Men's Basketball ?

I have attached those as screenshots above, unless you are asking a different question. Please clarify. 
 

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So you are using a custom path of "/media/DVR" for recordings, can you get screenshots of all the library settings for metadata. Also what you have defined in the Live TV Advanced Settings

Is there any easy way? It is just a popup that you have to scroll, so you can't even take a full screenshot that auto scrolls in browser since it is just a pop up window.

 

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The log shows the thumb.png was saved at 15:00 for the recording  - where did the 2:48pm timestamp come from

The game started at 3pm PST, which is the timezone I am in. I am unsure how emby works with grabbing thumbnails, but that thumbnail was grabbed from my EPG listing. Also I want to make sure you are looking at the Gonzaga vs Oregon Ducks games, that is the one that isn't available in Emby DVR folder.

 

 

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Is the /media/DVR is on a seprate system?

No, the server and DVR path is on the same unRAID server. The screenshot of the file systems is me accessing it on my laptop. As you can see in that screenshot the DVR recording is there.

 

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You could enable Debug logging on the emby server, (settings / server / logs / settings) and restart the server and do a scan and then see if the recording gets picked up in the library. If  not attach the log = you can include that with the screenshots I mentioned

Done. I attached them all and tagging you since the quote didn't work correctly for the entire post @sa2000.

embyserver.txt embyserver-63902071862.txt hardware_detection-63902071867.txt hardware_detection-63902070946.txt embyserver-63902070939.txt

Edited December 23, 2025 by knoll126

[Luke 42077]

What does show up under season 1?

[sa2000 674]

Thanks @knoll126for the recordings DVR library settings detail and the logs

The rescan of the DVR recordings library did not appear to do anything relating to the recorded file 

/media/DVR/NCAA Men's Basketball/NCAA Men's Basketball 2025_12_21_15_00_00 - Oregon Ducks at #7 Gonzaga Bulldogs.ts

When you open the DVR library and select the "NCAA Men's Basketball" series, what episodes show for Season 1 ?

Is it possible that may be this recording ended up as a second version for another recording ?

Suggest you leave debug logging enabled in case a similar recording issue arises and then the logs covering the time of the recording may give some clues.

I would like to have a look at the library.db file to see what we have in the database for this 23rd December 15:00 recording. I am going to send you an upload link for that. Please shutdown emby server, and copy out this file

/config/data/library.db

and zip it and upload the zip

Thanks

 

 

[knoll126 10]

5 hours ago, sa2000 said:

Thanks @knoll126for the recordings DVR library settings detail and the logs

The rescan of the DVR recordings library did not appear to do anything relating to the recorded file 

/media/DVR/NCAA Men's Basketball/NCAA Men's Basketball 2025_12_21_15_00_00 - Oregon Ducks at #7 Gonzaga Bulldogs.ts

When you open the DVR library and select the "NCAA Men's Basketball" series, what episodes show for Season 1 ?

Is it possible that may be this recording ended up as a second version for another recording ?

Suggest you leave debug logging enabled in case a similar recording issue arises and then the logs covering the time of the recording may give some clues.

I would like to have a look at the library.db file to see what we have in the database for this 23rd December 15:00 recording. I am going to send you an upload link for that. Please shutdown emby server, and copy out this file

/config/data/library.db

and zip it and upload the zip

Thanks

 

 

This is what shows under the "NCAA Men's Basketball".

I have also uploaded my library.db file.

[sa2000 674]

55 minutes ago, knoll126 said:

I have also uploaded my library.db fil

Thank you. I am looking at the database. The Oregon Ducks match is in the database

Whilst I am looking into the daatabase, could you open up the Campbell Fighting Camel episode and see if it has the oregon ducks media item as a second version in a drop-down

 

[sa2000 674]

I think the issue is because of the "#7" in the title which was interpreted as an episode number - when in fact these sports events are date/time based rather than have episode numbering

NCAA Men's Basketball 2025_12_17_18_00_00 - Campbell Fighting Camels at #7 Gonzaga Bulldogs
NCAA Men's Basketball 2025_12_21_15_00_00 - Oregon Ducks at #7 Gonzaga Bulldogs

I will refer this now to the development team to see if we can handle date/time based airings / episodes differently

Edited December 29, 2025 by sa2000

[knoll126 10]

31 minutes ago, sa2000 said:

Thank you. I am looking at the database. The Oregon Ducks match is in the database

Whilst I am looking into the daatabase, could you open up the Campbell Fighting Camel episode and see if it has the oregon ducks media item as a second version in a drop-down

 

I see your response above that it is taking #7 an using that as an episode number, but wanted to confirm that I do see both files as a second version. When Emby is recording where does it take the information from? For example if "#7" was only in the program description and not in the subtitle, would that avoid the issue?

[sa2000 674]

Just now, knoll126 said:

For example if "#7" was only in the program description and not in the subtitle, would that avoid the issue

I think that would avoid the issue arising

Do you have an xmltv file you can send me with examples of these sports events in the schedules. I would like to see how easy it would be to establish if these should be treated as time/date based airings/episodes. Please send me the xmltv as it is before making any changes to it - preferably zipped

Thanks

And do you know which stations would in your region would have those airings - i can then check what gracenote has as metadata

 

[knoll126 10]

1 hour ago, sa2000 said:

I think that would avoid the issue arising

Do you have an xmltv file you can send me with examples of these sports events in the schedules. I would like to see how easy it would be to establish if these should be treated as time/date based airings/episodes. Please send me the xmltv as it is before making any changes to it - preferably zipped

Thanks

And do you know which stations would in your region would have those airings - i can then check what gracenote has as metadata

 

So for this example it was an IPTV feed that I am creating a XMLTV file for. I get to pick what shows up in the title/subtitle, program description. I'll export the EPG and see if any games are playing with ranked teams. 

I don't see any on this xmltv file personally

teamarr.xml

[sa2000 674]

1 hour ago, knoll126 said:

So for this example it was an IPTV feed that I am creating a XMLTV file for. I get to pick what shows up in the title/subtitle, program description. I'll export the EPG and see if any games are playing with ranked teams

Looks like a lot of hard work getting the xmltv together. I presume you are only setting the title fields right and adding a "Sports Event" category for a small subset of the entries. Also noticed  some typo where a title is set to "NCAA Men's Basketball Basketball" 

So make sure there are no numbers in the sub-title fields that may get picked up as episode numbers. 

And if there was going to be a change to get round this, it would probably be based on the category being "Sports Event". Would need to see how these appear in the gracenote lineups.

 

[knoll126 10]

15 hours ago, sa2000 said:

Looks like a lot of hard work getting the xmltv together. I presume you are only setting the title fields right and adding a "Sports Event" category for a small subset of the entries. Also noticed  some typo where a title is set to "NCAA Men's Basketball Basketball" 

So make sure there are no numbers in the sub-title fields that may get picked up as episode numbers. 

And if there was going to be a change to get round this, it would probably be based on the category being "Sports Event". Would need to see how these appear in the gracenote lineups.

 

I wish I could say it was me, but the Dispatcharr community created this tool. It is called Teamarr and is very useful for IPTV feeds. I will make sure to not have any numbers sub-title fields. But for each type of event you can use a template to set what the EPG is pushing out. So you are selecting Channel Name, Title and Subtitle, and Event Description. It also has filler EPG for before the game start time and after.