diff --git a/src/LiveRecorder.Infrastructure/Services/FfmpegService.Runtime.cs b/src/LiveRecorder.Infrastructure/Services/FfmpegService.Runtime.cs
index 151b12f..cce1fd1 100644
--- a/src/LiveRecorder.Infrastructure/Services/FfmpegService.Runtime.cs
+++ b/src/LiveRecorder.Infrastructure/Services/FfmpegService.Runtime.cs
@@ -324,6 +324,7 @@ public sealed partial class FfmpegService
             if (runtime.SaveMode == RecordSaveMode.SingleFile)
             {
                 runtime.HasOpenedFirstSegment = true;
+                ResetStartupFailureBackoff(runtime.LiveRoomId);
                 currentTask.AttachProcess(runtime.ProcessId, now);
                 currentTask.MarkRunning(now);
                 session.AttachProcess(runtime.ProcessId, now);
@@ -361,6 +362,7 @@ public sealed partial class FfmpegService
             if (segmentIndex == runtime.CurrentSegmentIndex)
             {
                 runtime.HasOpenedFirstSegment = true;
+                ResetStartupFailureBackoff(runtime.LiveRoomId);
                 var finalOutputPath = NormalizeAbsolutePath(
                     currentTask.OutputFilePath ??
                     ResolveSegmentOutputPath(session.OutputPathPattern ?? runtime.OutputPathPattern, session.SaveMode, segmentIndex));
@@ -435,6 +437,7 @@ public sealed partial class FfmpegService
             runtime.CurrentOutputFilePath = normalizedOpenedPath;
             runtime.ResetCurrentRecorderSegmentPaths(normalizedOpenedPath);
             runtime.HasOpenedFirstSegment = true;
+            ResetStartupFailureBackoff(runtime.LiveRoomId);
 
             if (runtime.DanmakuRecorder is not null)
             {
@@ -1213,24 +1216,38 @@ public sealed partial class FfmpegService
 
         if (!runtime.StopRequested && session.LiveRoomId != Guid.Empty)
         {
-            _liveRoomPollingSignal.RequestImmediatePoll(session.LiveRoomId, TimeSpan.FromSeconds(2));
+            var isStartupFailure = !runtime.HasOpenedFirstSegment &&
+                                   runtime.StartupFailureKind != StartupFailureKind.None;
+            var pollDelay = isStartupFailure
+                ? RecordStartupFailure(session.LiveRoomId)
+                : TimeSpan.FromSeconds(2);
+            _liveRoomPollingSignal.RequestImmediatePoll(session.LiveRoomId, pollDelay);
         }
 
         if (session.Status == RecordSessionStatus.Failed && session.LiveRoom is not null)
         {
-            var failureDetail = BuildExitLogDetail(runtime, process.ExitCode, effectiveOutputPath, toleratedNonZeroExit: false, finalizationError);
-            await emailNotificationService.SendExceptionAsync(
-                "FFmpeg",
-                "Recording session exited abnormally.",
-                failureDetail,
-                session.LiveRoom,
-                currentTask);
-            await webhookNotificationService.SendExceptionAsync(
-                "FFmpeg",
-                "Recording session exited abnormally.",
-                failureDetail,
-                session.LiveRoom,
-                currentTask);
+            var isStartupFailure = !runtime.HasOpenedFirstSegment &&
+                                   runtime.StartupFailureKind != StartupFailureKind.None;
+            if (isStartupFailure && ShouldThrottleStartupFailureNotification(session.LiveRoomId))
+            {
+                // Notification suppressed — the failure has already been logged above.
+            }
+            else
+            {
+                var failureDetail = BuildExitLogDetail(runtime, process.ExitCode, effectiveOutputPath, toleratedNonZeroExit: false, finalizationError);
+                await emailNotificationService.SendExceptionAsync(
+                    "FFmpeg",
+                    "Recording session exited abnormally.",
+                    failureDetail,
+                    session.LiveRoom,
+                    currentTask);
+                await webhookNotificationService.SendExceptionAsync(
+                    "FFmpeg",
+                    "Recording session exited abnormally.",
+                    failureDetail,
+                    session.LiveRoom,
+                    currentTask);
+            }
         }
     }
 
diff --git a/src/LiveRecorder.Infrastructure/Services/FfmpegService.Utils.cs b/src/LiveRecorder.Infrastructure/Services/FfmpegService.Utils.cs
index 93cf7d2..506b0b8 100644
--- a/src/LiveRecorder.Infrastructure/Services/FfmpegService.Utils.cs
+++ b/src/LiveRecorder.Infrastructure/Services/FfmpegService.Utils.cs
@@ -676,6 +676,11 @@ public sealed partial class FfmpegService
             {
                 arguments.AddRange(["-headers", customHeaders]);
             }
+
+            // Increase the max allocation size to avoid "overlong headers" errors
+            // when CDN (e.g. Douyin) returns HTTP response headers exceeding FFmpeg's
+            // default internal buffer (4096 bytes).
+            arguments.AddRange(["-max_alloc", "100000000"]);
         }
 
         if (enableReconnect &&
diff --git a/src/LiveRecorder.Infrastructure/Services/FfmpegService.cs b/src/LiveRecorder.Infrastructure/Services/FfmpegService.cs
index e5fde13..c3e9b09 100644
--- a/src/LiveRecorder.Infrastructure/Services/FfmpegService.cs
+++ b/src/LiveRecorder.Infrastructure/Services/FfmpegService.cs
@@ -24,8 +24,13 @@ public sealed partial class FfmpegService : IFfmpegService
         """Opening '([^']+)' for writing""",
         RegexOptions.Compiled | RegexOptions.CultureInvariant | RegexOptions.IgnoreCase);
 
+    private static readonly TimeSpan StartupFailureNotificationCooldown = TimeSpan.FromMinutes(30);
+    private static readonly TimeSpan StartupFailureMaxBackoff = TimeSpan.FromMinutes(15);
+    private static readonly TimeSpan StartupFailureBaseBackoff = TimeSpan.FromSeconds(30);
+
     private readonly ConcurrentDictionary<Guid, SessionProcessRuntime> _processes = new();
     private readonly ConcurrentDictionary<Guid, PostProcessRuntimeEntry> _postProcessStates = new();
+    private readonly ConcurrentDictionary<Guid, RoomStartupFailureState> _roomStartupFailureStates = new();
     private readonly object _transcodeConcurrencyLock = new();
     private readonly Queue<TaskCompletionSource<IDisposable>> _transcodeWaiters = new();
     private int _activeTranscodeTasks;
@@ -795,6 +800,84 @@ public sealed partial class FfmpegService : IFfmpegService
         }
     }
 
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Records a startup failure for the given live room and returns the backoff delay
+    /// that should be applied before the next re-poll attempt. Uses exponential backoff
+    /// to prevent tight fail→retry→fail→re-poll loops from flooding notifications.
+    /// </summary>
+    private TimeSpan RecordStartupFailure(Guid liveRoomId)
+    {
+        var now = DateTimeOffset.UtcNow;
+        var state = _roomStartupFailureStates.AddOrUpdate(
+            liveRoomId,
+            _ => new RoomStartupFailureState { ConsecutiveFailures = 1, FirstFailureAt = now, LastFailureAt = now },
+            (_, existing) =>
+            {
+                existing.ConsecutiveFailures++;
+                existing.LastFailureAt = now;
+                return existing;
+            });
+
+        var backoffSeconds = StartupFailureBaseBackoff.TotalSeconds * Math.Pow(2, Math.Min(state.ConsecutiveFailures - 1, 5));
+        var backoff = TimeSpan.FromSeconds(Math.Min(backoffSeconds, StartupFailureMaxBackoff.TotalSeconds));
+        _logger.LogWarning(
+            "Startup failure backoff for room {LiveRoomId}: {ConsecutiveFailures} consecutive failures, next poll delayed by {BackoffSeconds:F0}s",
+            liveRoomId, state.ConsecutiveFailures, backoff.TotalSeconds);
+        return backoff;
+    }
+
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Resets the startup failure backoff counter when a session successfully opens its first segment.
+    /// </summary>
+    private void ResetStartupFailureBackoff(Guid liveRoomId)
+    {
+        if (_roomStartupFailureStates.TryRemove(liveRoomId, out var state) && state.ConsecutiveFailures > 1)
+        {
+            _logger.LogInformation(
+                "Startup failure backoff reset for room {LiveRoomId} after {ConsecutiveFailures} failures",
+                liveRoomId, state.ConsecutiveFailures);
+        }
+    }
+
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Returns true if the failure notification for this room should be throttled
+    /// (i.e., at most one notification per <see cref="StartupFailureNotificationCooldown"/>).
+    /// </summary>
+    private bool ShouldThrottleStartupFailureNotification(Guid liveRoomId)
+    {
+        var now = DateTimeOffset.UtcNow;
+        var state = _roomStartupFailureStates.GetOrAdd(
+            liveRoomId,
+            _ => new RoomStartupFailureState { ConsecutiveFailures = 0, FirstFailureAt = now, LastFailureAt = now });
+
+        // Always allow the first failure notification through
+        if (state.LastNotificationAt is null)
+        {
+            state.LastNotificationAt = now;
+            return false;
+        }
+
+        if (now - state.LastNotificationAt.Value < StartupFailureNotificationCooldown)
+        {
+            _logger.LogWarning(
+                "Suppressed duplicate startup failure notification for room {LiveRoomId}. " +
+                "Last notification was at {LastNotificationAt} (cooldown={CooldownMinutes}min)",
+                liveRoomId, state.LastNotificationAt, StartupFailureNotificationCooldown.TotalMinutes);
+            return true;
+        }
+
+        state.LastNotificationAt = now;
+        return false;
+    }
+
+    private sealed class RoomStartupFailureState
+    {
+        public int ConsecutiveFailures;
+        public DateTimeOffset FirstFailureAt;
+        public DateTimeOffset LastFailureAt;
+        public DateTimeOffset? LastNotificationAt;
+    }
+
     private sealed record PostProcessRuntimeEntry(Guid RecordSessionId, RecordTaskRuntimeState State);
 
     private sealed class TranscodeSlotLease : IDisposable