I have tried to record demos of some games just when they are about to start (I can hear the bell sound): when I open my console and type "record xxx", the game jams and I have to forcibly shut it down via Task Manager.

It has happened me few times, with good (bad) timing. Last time it happened when in the beginning of Germany versus France game I was looking through the eyes of a marine in the MS and I was trying to record a demo. The server was running amxx with these plugins:

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         Metamod v1.19p31  2007/04/05 (5:13)
         by Will Day
            http://www.metamod.org/
          Patch: Metamod-P (mm-p) v31
          by Jussi Kivilinna
             http://metamod-p.sourceforge.net/
         compiled: Apr  5 2007, 11:06:24 EET (optimized)

          [  1] Admin Base              1.76d    AMXX Dev Team     admin.amxx       running  
          [  2] Admin Commands          1.76d    AMXX Dev Team     admincmd.amxx    running  
          [  3] Admin Help              1.76d    AMXX Dev Team     adminhelp.amxx   running  
          [  4] Admin Chat              1.76d    AMXX Dev Team     adminchat.amxx   running  
          [  5] Anti Flood              1.76d    AMXX Dev Team     antiflood.amxx   running  
          [  6] Info. Messages          1.76d    AMXX Dev Team     imessage.amxx    running  
          [  7] Admin Votes             1.76d    AMXX Dev Team     adminvote.amxx   running  
          [  8] TimeLeft                1.76d    AMXX Dev Team     timeleft.amxx    running  
          [  9] Pause Plugins           1.76d    AMXX Dev Team     pausecfg.amxx    running  
          [ 10] Idle Player Remover     1.76d    AMXX Dev Team     idlekicker.amxx  running  
          [ 11] NS Commands             1.76d    AMXX Dev Team     nscommands.amxx  running  
          [ 12] UnStuck                 1.76d    AMXX Dev Team     unstuck.amxx     running  
          [ 13] Admin Icons (NS3.2)     3.2      sawce             icons.amxx       running  



But I have no idea if they affected it at all. I'm pretty sure that has happened to me before when I have been watching games on non-MM/AMXX servers.

I reproduced the bug by making HLTV replay demo of the match and try recording a demo via Marine Eyes in MS when the game is about to start. The demo recording works outside the Start Time but not when the game is about to start.

Its not a serious issue as I can just avoid it by recording games a bit sooner/later but possibly a ns-related bug.