Recordings Stopping After 5 Minutes

[RobbyBobby 17]

Just to add that I'm getting recordings of minutes on my Mac too.

I've had to fire up Plex for DVD recordings. 

 

 

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[Luke 43502]

9 hours ago, RobbyBobby said:

Just to add that I'm getting recordings of minutes on my Mac too.

I've had to fire up Plex for DVD recordings. 

 

 

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Hi, what specific recording had an issue?

[RobbyBobby 17]

Here's an example from last night. I recorded Masterchef. 5 minutes of padding at the start and 10 minutes at the end. The episode was 60 minutes long. So there should be a recording of around 75 minutes. On Emby it's 21 minutes long. 

Looking at the files on disk, there are 3 recordings for the same show, all starting at the same time. 

FYI:

MasterChef The Professionals S19E01.ts 

AND

MasterChef The Professionals S19E01 - 1.ts

Are both 21 minutes long. And identical. 

MasterChef The Professionals S19E01 - 2.ts contains the entire 1 hour and 15 minute recording.

I attach the server log.

 

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Edited 12 hours ago by RobbyBobby

[Luke 43502]

@RobbyBobby

The server thinks it ran for 75 minutes:

2026-11-03 21:10:00.570 Info LiveTV: Recording stopped: 47758c2da96119ab9de7cf622652a018 /Volumes/Recordings/DVR/Recorded TV Shows/MasterChef The Professionals (2008)/Season 19/MasterChef The Professionals S19E01 - 2.ts

More importantly, if you look at the log, there are no entries between 19:56 and 21:10. that tells me the macOS machine either went to sleep, or it put some resources to sleep that are required by the recording process.

As a test, if you stay at the machine the entire time throughout the recording, and pull up the emby server web interface every few minutes, are you able to get this to happen?