Lately I’ve noticed when I enable hardware transcoding on my Window 10 PMS server that PMS will occasionally completely crash when my users activate transcoding. It seems to work for a little while but sooner or later PMS will completely crash. I’m using an Intel NUC with an i7 and have confirmed it has QuickSync hardware transcoding functionality.
Jun 01, 2020 08:49:26.005 [2196] INFO - Windows version: 10.0 (Build 18363), language en-US
Jun 01, 2020 08:49:26.005 [2196] INFO - 4 3504 MHz processor(s): Architecture=0, Level=6, Revision=36361 Processor Identifier=Intel64 Family 6 Model 142 Stepping 9, GenuineIntel
Jun 01, 2020 08:49:26.002 [7360] ERROR - [Transcoder] Error while decoding stream #0:1: Invalid data found when processing input
Jun 01, 2020 08:49:26.003 [7360] ERROR - [Transcoder] [aac @ 02d74440] SBR was found before the first channel element.
Jun 01, 2020 08:49:26.003 [7360] ERROR - [Transcoder] [aac @ 02d74440] Reserved bit set.
Jun 01, 2020 08:49:26.003 [7360] ERROR - [Transcoder] [aac @ 02d74440] Number of bands (29) exceeds limit (10).
Jun 01, 2020 08:49:26.003 [7360] ERROR - [Transcoder] Error while decoding stream #0:1: Invalid data found when processing input
Jun 01, 2020 08:49:26.003 [7360] ERROR - [Transcoder] [aac @ 02d74440] Input buffer exhausted before END element found
Jun 01, 2020 08:49:26.003 [7360] ERROR - [Transcoder] Error while decoding stream #0:1: Invalid data found when processing input
Jun 01, 2020 08:49:26.003 [7360] ERROR - [Transcoder] [aac @ 02d74440] channel element 3.10 is not allocated
Jun 01, 2020 08:49:26.004 [7360] ERROR - [Transcoder] Error while decoding stream #0:1: Invalid data found when processing input
Jun 01, 2020 08:49:26.004 [7360] ERROR - [Transcoder] [aac @ 02d74440] channel element 3.0 is not allocated
Jun 01, 2020 08:49:26.004 [7360] ERROR - [Transcoder] Error while decoding stream #0:1: Invalid data found when processing input
Jun 01, 2020 08:49:26.004 [7360] ERROR - [Transcoder] [aac @ 02d74440] Input buffer exhausted before END element found
Jun 01, 2020 08:49:26.004 [7360] ERROR - [Transcoder] Error while decoding stream #0:1: Invalid data found when processing input
Jun 01, 2020 08:49:26.004 [7360] ERROR - [Transcoder] [aac @ 02d74440] Number of bands (3) exceeds limit (1).
Jun 01, 2020 08:49:26.004 [7360] ERROR - [Transcoder] Error while decoding stream #0:1: Invalid data found when processing input
Jun 01, 2020 08:49:26.005 [7360] ERROR - [Transcoder] [aac @ 02d74440] decode_band_types: Input buffer exhausted before END element found
Jun 01, 2020 08:49:26.005 [7360] ERROR - [Transcoder] Error while decoding stream #0:1: Invalid data found when processing input
Jun 01, 2020 08:49:26.005 [7360] ERROR - [Transcoder] [aac @ 02d74440] channel element 2.13 is not allocated
Jun 01, 2020 08:49:26.005 [7360] ERROR - [Transcoder] Error while decoding stream #0:1: Invalid data found when processing input
Jun 01, 2020 08:49:26.006 [7360] ERROR - [Transcoder] [aac @ 02d74440] channel element 3.0 is not allocated
Jun 01, 2020 08:49:26.006 [7360] ERROR - [Transcoder] Error while decoding stream #0:1: Invalid data found when processing input
Jun 01, 2020 08:49:26.006 [7360] ERROR - [Transcoder] [aac @ 02d74440] channel element 2.9 is not allocated
Jun 01, 2020 08:49:26.006 [7360] ERROR - [Transcoder] Error while decoding stream #0:1: Invalid data found when processing input
Jun 01, 2020 08:49:26.007 [7360] ERROR - [Transcoder] [aac @ 02d74440] decode_band_types: Input buffer exhausted before END element found
Jun 01, 2020 08:49:26.007 [7360] ERROR - [Transcoder] Error while decoding stream #0:1: Invalid data found when processing input
Jun 01, 2020 08:49:26.007 [7360] ERROR - [Transcoder] [aac @ 02d74440] channel element 2.8 is not allocated
Jun 01, 2020 08:49:26.008 [7360] ERROR - [Transcoder] Error while decoding stream #0:1: Invalid data found when processing input
Jun 01, 2020 08:49:26.008 [7360] ERROR - [Transcoder] [aac @ 02d74440] channel element 3.12 is not allocated
Jun 01, 2020 08:49:26.008 [7360] ERROR - [Transcoder] Error while decoding stream #0:1: Invalid data found when processing input
Jun 01, 2020 08:49:26.008 [7360] ERROR - [Transcoder] [aac @ 02d74440] decode_band_types: Input buffer exhausted before END element found
Update: Iris driver update seems to have completely fixed hardware transcoding crashing.
The B of it is I have the intel driver update tool running and in two what’s it never old me the display driver was out of date. I had to manually get the driver files and update the driver from Device Manger. FYI if anyone else ever has this issue, manually update Intel HD drivers if you have to.