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I've never had this problem, but for whatever reason today I've been recording 70% of things (I've relogged like 20 times to try and reset it) in the tmcpr format. I know that it's in that format while recording, but when I finish recording and leave the server it stays in that format. Not sure how I can make it so it goes back to saving in tmcpr and not sure what info I need to provide for help.

You can recover tmcpr files (only the recording, no meta data) using this python script.
The script takes any number of .tmcpr files and converts them to .mcpr files with the same name.
You didn't state your OS so you'll have to find out how to run a python program from the command line yourself.
On Windows it should be something along these lines: python recover.py mybrokenreplay.tmcpr
On Unix-like systems this should work: ./recover.py mybrokenreplay.tmcpr

As for the problem itself: Do you have a hard drive or a SSD? A slow or a fast one? If you wait in the main menu after leaving the server for some time, does it still not convert it? Game log?

Alternatively to @User10 's .tmcpr recovery script, you can use my modified version of it.
This script allows you to specify a server name for the output replay file, and also make the output file a server recording.
Unlike johni's script, it also compresses the finished .mcpr files to reduce filesize a lot.

For more information, execute python recover.py -h in the command line.

It's wierd. Sometimes it'll record fine, the file will be like 5-10MB and MCPR, other times it'll be 50MB for the same 5-10 minute recording. I even had a 2 and a half hour recording once that was still a small size. I haven't changed any settings while doing this, I just go in sometimes and it's fine and other's it's not. Maybe it has to do with chunk errors or something wherever I'm playing?

Yes, Python is a coding language, which the script is written in. You'll need to install Python 2.7 to execute the script from here.

Also another update... they seem to have deleted themselves. I came back to them and they weren't there, after I had renamed them :(

EDIT: I see your reply, I will try to run it now.

Is there a way to prevent this though? I don't understand why. I'll play a game, it'll be MCPR. I'll join the same game again, it'll be 10x the size and TMCPR. I'm not sure why doing the exact same thing would get different results every time, are there some settings I could change?

EDIT: It seems that when I use version 1.3, and when I uninstall shaders, it doesn't do that anymore. Not sure which causes it, but I suppose I could just reinstall 1.7/Shaders when it's time to render.

Im unable to run .py file.. when i write "python" into cmd, i get:
'python' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

You have to install python, and in the installation, check "Add to path", and then it should work.

I did it, but 50% of map is just empty, sometimes there is none player and there is none timeline..
Is there any BY YOU CONFIRMED way to do it?
Some way which works everytime?

Nope. Currently this is the only way to fix the tmcpr files. In the private beta version the way replays are saved got changed, so things like this can't occur. Maybe you installed python 3 instead of python 2. That could also be the problem.