2 recording files for every recording

Problem of having 2 files being recorded for every show I record (regardless of OTA or Philo). One file is usually a minute or so less than the full length. The other file is usually only 2 to 5 minutes in length. Using a HDHomeRun Connect Extend (on Heavy transcoding). I once had it running on Mobile, but changed everything to Heavy. Any ideas of why this could happen?

Snippet of log:
2021/10/14 19:44:03.766366 [DVR] Waiting 15m26.2336337s until next job 1634266770-ch2.1 Young Sheldon
2021/10/14 19:44:03.766366 [DBG] Scheduling wake timer for scheduled recording in 13m56.2336337s
2021/10/14 19:55:48.903035 [ERR] Recording 278 (TV\The Office\The Office S09E19 2013-04-04 Promos 2021-10-12-2230.mpg) missing: CreateFile \beetlejuice\Recorded TV\TV\The Office\The Office S09E19 2013-04-04 Promos 2021-10-12-2230.mpg: The system cannot find the file specified.
2021/10/14 19:56:47.479497 [ERR] Recording 17 (TV\KOLO 8 News Now at 530pm\KOLO 8 News Now at 530pm 2021-10-11-1729.mpg) missing: CreateFile T:\TV\KOLO 8 News Now at 530pm\KOLO 8 News Now at 530pm 2021-10-11-1729.mpg: The system cannot find the file specified.
2021/10/14 19:59:30.005307 [DVR] Starting job 1634266770-ch2.1 Young Sheldon on ch=[2.1]
2021/10/14 19:59:30.005307 [DVR] Waiting 1h0m29.9946927s until next job 1634270400-11 The Office
2021/10/14 19:59:30.005307 [DBG] Scheduling wake timer for scheduled recording in 58m59.9946927s
2021/10/14 19:59:30.303346 [TNR] Opened connection to 1055D702/0 for ch2.1 2 CBS
2021/10/14 19:59:30.303346 [DVR] Recording for job 1634266770-ch2.1 from 1055D702 ch2.1 into "TV\Young Sheldon\Young Sheldon S05E02 Snoopin Around and the Wonder Twins of Atheism 2021-10-14-1959.mpg" for 32m29.9946927s
2021/10/14 19:59:30.335423 [DVR] Refreshing metadata for Young Sheldon (13923677)
2021/10/14 19:59:30.892998 [IDX] Generating video index for job 1634266770-ch2.1
2021/10/14 20:01:28.455596 [SCN] Imported TV show TV\Young Sheldon\Young Sheldon S05E02 Snoopin Around and the Wonder Twins of Atheism 2021-10-14-1959.mpg
2021/10/14 20:32:00.018052 [SNR] Statistics for "TV\Young Sheldon\Young Sheldon S05E02 Snoopin Around and the Wonder Twins of Atheism 2021-10-14-1959.mpg": ss=100% snq=98%,97%-100% seq=100% bps=3710605,9024-11544704 pps=326,3-998
2021/10/14 20:32:00.245042 [TNR] Closed connection to 1055D702/0 for ch2.1 2 CBS
2021/10/14 20:32:00.247167 [DVR] Finished job 1634266770-ch2.1 Young Sheldon
2021/10/14 20:32:00.264294 [DVR] Processing file-420: TV\Young Sheldon\Young Sheldon S05E02 Snoopin Around and the Wonder Twins of Atheism 2021-10-14-1959.mpg
2021/10/14 20:32:00.265903 [DVR] Waiting 27m59.7340964s until next job 1634270400-11 The Office
2021/10/14 20:32:00.265903 [DBG] Scheduling wake timer for scheduled recording in 26m29.7340964s
2021/10/14 20:32:00.647521 [DVR] Running commercial detection on file 420 (TV\Young Sheldon\Young Sheldon S05E02 Snoopin Around and the Wonder Twins of Atheism 2021-10-14-1959.mpg)
2021/10/14 20:33:19.456495 [DVR] Commercial detection for Young Sheldon S05E02 Snoopin Around and the Wonder Twins of Atheism 2021-10-14-1959.mpg finished with 10 markers in 1m18.8452262s.

Screenshot your Local Content settings on the dvr web UI

That's probably the issue. I have it set to the same folder as the DVR itself. I did this because I already had the folder with some recordings from Plex that I wanted Channels to import.

Yea that's not allowed

I made some changes and took all my existing Plex recordings out and moved to a new folder. During setup, I got confused. You may want to add a little blurb to the settings to say that it should be a complete empty (new) folder for the DVR during setup.

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