Just had a failure. Started recording on time, and recording ran the entire length it was set for. But, the program is about 7 seconds long. I can watch the channel fine live through NextPVR, no pixelation, nothing.
I can't comment without seeing the sample. Bad timelines can look perfect and NextPVR.exe uses the timing file so doesn't always need a good timeline. Which of course could explain sync issues.
I think I maybe misunderstood your frustration and thought you were concerned about yauiclient. If you haven't deleted the file could you zip and send M:\NextPVR\College Football\College Football_20251115_12001530.timing we can tell when it stops.
Certainly the filesize is only a few minutes so it isn't the timeline at all.
"recording_size": "8468648"
The signal for the game was much lower than the signal for This Old House at the same time, this is out of NextPVR's control
Sometimes stuff happens. The antenna for channel 2.1 (physical 7) is VHF so you need to make sure you have a reasonable VHF antenna, many that are sold as "HD" were tuned to UHF.