[primaeval]

 

 That's good it's working.
The message that I added is 7 lines up from the bottom.
That directory looks ok.
smb://TOWERII/Media/DVR/

I have no idea where it is getting the "1" from. It doesn't look right.
Post some more of the lines above the top of that.    

Sure thing!!  Hey..  and if you need me to test IPTV Recorder within another OS just say the word!!  I'll install on a VM and work with you - as it's the least I can do.  Oh yeah..  and what is the "ffmpeg reconnect arguments" settings for exactly?  Will that setting try and reconnect to the channel while recording if the connection drops?

 

 I can't see what the "1" is for but if it works then we'll just have to leave it for now.

The reconnect options should try to reconnect the stream if there is an error.
It adds these arguments to the ffmpeg command line
"-reconnect_at_eof", "1", "-reconnect_streamed", "1", "-reconnect_delay_max", "300"
and the ffmpeg documentation is here
https://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-protocols.html
search on the page for
reconnect_at_eof
and it will take you to all three.