Plex Credit Detection filling docke.img within /tmp

Server Version#: 1.32.8.7639
Player Version#: 4.116.1
Hello!
Past couple weeks I have found my unraid server I am running plex on to have maxed it’s docker.img and causing a host of problems. Upon investigating I’ve found the issue to be the same/similar to what has been described here: Plex crashing server - out of inodes on tmp
I had posted in this thread earlier this year but the issue has seemed to iron itself out. Now it’s back with a vengeance!
What I find is that the docker img will continue to fill until 100%. Within the Plex container navigating to /tmp I find the following /PlexCreditsDetections-xxxxxx using 115GB with thousands of .jpg files.
PlexRAM
Let me know which log files will be useful and I can turn credit detection back on and attempt to generate. Thanks!

Whose image are you using? (There are several)

lscr.io/linuxserver/plex

Where did you map the container’s /tmp ?
Did you direct map it to your real /tmp ?

Granted there’s something going sideways … which we need to address but first I want to figure out how your container’s /tmp got out onto the host.

Where did you map the container’s /tmp ? - Container /tmp has not been mapped.
Did you direct map it to your real /tmp ? - No, the real /tmp has been mapped to /transcode

I’ve direct mapped /tmp to the container /transcode for Ram transcoding.
I use following script within the go file of unraid.

mkdir /tmp/PlexRamScratch
chmod -R 777 /tmp/PlexRamScratch
mount -t tmpfs -o size=64g tmpfs /tmp/PlexRamScratch

My docker mappings look are the following:

And then mapped within plex as:

Also making sure I’m describing this correctly (apologies!) it appears the /tmp that the Credit Detection is overflowing is the location within the docker container.

AFAIK/can tell the RAM transcoding is working properly. Starting play back that’s HW transcoded I can see new session being created (outside of the container as well if I go to /tmp/PlexRamScratch) on the host.

I could change my docker from using .img to a folder which would remove the size restrictions but… Am worried that if that process continued even if I had a folder setup it would end up filling my cache drive. Also I’ve consider mapping the container’s /tmp to a location on the cache but also nervous for the same reason.

You don’t need RAM memory speed for transcoding.
A single 200 MB/sec HDD will provide 2000 Mbps of video bitrate performance.
Are you transcoding that much at the same time ?

I always leave the transcoder temp at the default.
When in a container on Unraid, /transcode is /mnt/disk1/appdata/transcode

Also, RAM is far more limiting than HDD (space wise).

Remember, /tmp is only 1/2 of the installed RAM.

Here’s my config.

I will try to replicate the credit detection problem you’re having.
I’ll launch it now and see what happens.

My Transcode path: /mnt/disk1/appdata/transcode/
(I have 1 HDD in this test system)

Great to know and something might play around with as well!

The reason I’ve read/wanted to use the RAM location for transcoding is from what I’d seen it was a good way to reduce read/writes to your SSD/Cache location.

I guess also/see how a HDD might also be good for that since you’ also have to worry less about the wear & tear.

Thanks for testing as well! I’ve set my credit detection to never for now but if I can re-enable/produce any log files just let me know!

If you have 256 GB RAM – Go ahead :smiling_imp:
If you have SSD – YES, RAM is best – but 1.2 PB / 2.4 PB TBW SSDs are nice.
If you have HDD – NO, use the HDD

HDD’s (NAS-grade) are designed for this stuff.

Something I thought/wanted to include. It doesn’t appear to happen constantly/always.

I leave my “Generate credits video markers” to “as a scheduled task and when media is added.” and typically wake up to the docker.img being full so it appears to be the scheduled task piece that might be doing it.

Seems to be happening every three days as after it first occurred removed the docker container, recreated and was ~ 3 days fine until it occurred again last night. I do have my scheduled tasks enabled.

I’ve never seen that. In all the server instances I’ve run, nothing like that has occured for me.

I did look about an hour ago and most of my new server instances have intro & credit detection on by default.

If you see it, I should be seeing it first

When it does happen, Please grab me the logs ZIP so I can see whatever state it’s in.

Sure can, I’ve turned credit detection back on. Also just to confirm which logs those are and if I should be enabling verbose logging or anything similar. Thanks!

  1. DEBUG logging only. — We only use VERBOSE when inspecting packets and mouse clicks (not doing that here)

  2. Given the amount of data which will be flying by, it’s best to grab the entire Server Logs ZIP file. ( Settings - Troubleshooting - Download Logs)

That ZIP will give me the scanner (which controls the credits & intro detection) as well as other pieces which interact.

Awesome, thanks a lot for the info!

Just a small addition: If the array is backed by parity disk(s), up to three disks are involved in write operations. Every write operation to disk1 consists of four disk operations on the array then. This reduces performance to 1/3:

And if there is more activity in parallel on disk1 beside Plex transcoding users will recognize Plex stutter or performance degration in other apps.

I don’t have 256 GB RAM, “only” 128 GB. But on my system (running 7/24) all docker containers have /tmp/ mapped to /tmp/ on host. This is working perfect since many, many years. From Nextcloud to Plex - in fact six containers with up to four transcodes in parallel.

The only differences to the thread creator:

  1. I went the risky way. Just /tmp/ no tmpfs mount. I tried this once and went back to plain /tmp/ because I had problems with this solution and Plex. I never found out why …

  2. No docker image, docker directory here instead. A question to the thread starter: What FS in image?

Appreciate the additional insight into unraid!

I do like the idea of just mounting container /tmp into host /tmp/ as it does simplify things. I went ramdisk route as thought it would be a good way to limit Plex’s access to all the host memory.

For your transcoding settings within plex (like below) I’m guessing you set that to /tmp since the direct mapping?

My docker.img is xfs.

Yes,

here are my settings. Please be aware that /tmp/ might be dangerous. As I wrote, 128 GB here, a huge server, and never experienced a problem. But you never know:

Here’s part of my /boot/config/go:

# Temp Directories
# Plex
mkdir /tmp/plex
chmod 777 /tmp/plex

Here’s the container mapping:

image

Here’s the corresponding Plex transcoder setting:

image

A “traditional” Unraid server uses a fast SSD/NVMe pool for appdata and the array for the cold data. I would suggest to use a Docker Directory instead of a Docker Image. I don’t know your level of experience with Unraid. Just hop over to the Unraid forum to get detailled information about how to change from Docker Image to Docker Directory. It’s fairly easy.

EDIT Thinking about it I can’t get why your Docker Image fills up when /tmp/ is mapped to the hosts environment. Did you check that your tmpfs does show the Plex Detection Files or are these files really within the container only?

Thanks for sharing your settings/screenshots!

I’ve been strongly consider deleting my docker.img and swapping it over to a directory. Quick little project for time off during the holidays!

To answer your edit, in my case I’ve mapped host /tmp to /transcode and specify plex to that /transcode/PlexRamScratch location. So in this case my container’s /tmp is never mapped to the host which is where it appears Credit Detection by default stores something during it’s process.

I could certainly change that around to similar setup as you (I’m running 128GB as well) but I think in this case if the issue occurred again (with credit detection) rather than having 115GB in my docker.img it would be in my host memory instead and lead to it’s own problems.

This morning checked server and we’ve got our filling/filled docker container.

Attached Logs:
Plex Media Server Logs_2023-12-20_11-07-01.zip (3.1 MB)

Edit: I may have goofed the logs a bit. I was just looking for previous message and saw where DEBUG was mentioned. Just took a look at my settings and looks like debug logging I uncheck at some point. I’m going to re-check now. I’ll plan on removing the inflated container this evening and allowing to run once again. Maybe there is still some value to the other set of logs but apologies for the oversight!

Thanks again!

Thanks for the logs.

We can see the WHAT’s happening but not which files are causing it.

Dec 20, 2023 03:22:41.827 [22935770667832] INFO - Linux version: 6.1.64-Unraid, language: en-US
Dec 20, 2023 03:22:41.827 [22935770667832] INFO - Processor: 24-core 12th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-12900K
Dec 20, 2023 03:22:41.827 [22935770667832] INFO - Compiler is - Clang 11.0.1 (https://plex.tv 9b997da8e5b47bdb4a9425b3a3b290be393b4b1f)
Dec 20, 2023 03:22:41.827 [22935770667832] INFO - /usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Plex Media Server
Dec 20, 2023 03:22:41.824 [22935401110328] ERROR - [Req#335e67/Transcode/abed8953-3b17-44e4-970b-ac04d621db55/cb21e121-cb28-406e-bee5-f81935734bc4] Error while decoding stream #0:1: Invalid data found when processing input
Dec 20, 2023 03:22:41.824 [22935447620408] ERROR - [Req#335e68/Transcode/abed8953-3b17-44e4-970b-ac04d621db55/cb21e121-cb28-406e-bee5-f81935734bc4] [aac @ 0x148b704b8140] Number of bands (7) exceeds limit (4).
Dec 20, 2023 03:22:41.824 [22935397358392] ERROR - [Req#335e69/Transcode/abed8953-3b17-44e4-970b-ac04d621db55/cb21e121-cb28-406e-bee5-f81935734bc4] Error while decoding stream #0:1: Invalid data found when processing input
Dec 20, 2023 03:22:41.824 [22935417248568] ERROR - [Req#335e6a/Transcode/abed8953-3b17-44e4-970b-ac04d621db55/cb21e121-cb28-406e-bee5-f81935734bc4] [aac @ 0x148b704b8140] Reserved bit set.
Dec 20, 2023 03:22:41.825 [22935374285624] ERROR - [Req#335e6b/Transcode/abed8953-3b17-44e4-970b-ac04d621db55/cb21e121-cb28-406e-bee5-f81935734bc4] [aac @ 0x148b704b8140] invalid band type
Dec 20, 2023 03:22:41.825 [22935456246584] ERROR - [Req#335e6c/Transcode/abed8953-3b17-44e4-970b-ac04d621db55/cb21e121-cb28-406e-bee5-f81935734bc4] Error while decoding stream #0:1: Invalid data found when processing input
Dec 20, 2023 03:22:41.825 [22935367957304] ERROR - [Req#335e6d/Transcode/abed8953-3b17-44e4-970b-ac04d621db55/cb21e121-cb28-406e-bee5-f81935734bc4] [aac @ 0x148b704b8140] Reserved bit set.
Dec 20, 2023 03:22:41.825 [22935372176184] ERROR - [Req#335e6e/Transcode/abed8953-3b17-44e4-970b-ac04d621db55/cb21e121-cb28-406e-bee5-f81935734bc4] [aac @ 0x148b704b8140] Number of scalefactor bands in group (62) exceeds limit (47).
Dec 20, 2023 03:22:41.825 [22935386942264] ERROR - [Req#335e6f/Transcode/abed8953-3b17-44e4-970b-ac04d621db55/cb21e121-cb28-406e-bee5-f81935734bc4] Error while decoding stream #0:1: Invalid data found when processing input
Dec 20, 2023 03:22:41.825 [22935365847864] ERROR - [Req#335e70/Transcode/abed8953-3b17-44e4-970b-ac04d621db55/cb21e121-cb28-406e-bee5-f81935734bc4] [aac @ 0x148b704b8140] skip_data_stream_element: Input buffer exhausted before END element found
Dec 20, 2023 03:22:41.825 [22935420357432] ERROR - [Req#335e71/Transcode/abed8953-3b17-44e4-970b-ac04d621db55/cb21e121-cb28-406e-bee5-f81935734bc4] Error while decoding stream #0:1: Invalid data found when processing input
Dec 20, 2023 03:22:41.825 [22935395248952] ERROR - [Req#335e72/Transcode/abed8953-3b17-44e4-970b-ac04d621db55/cb21e121-cb28-406e-bee5-f81935734bc4] [aac @ 0x148b704b8140] skip_data_stream_element: Input buffer exhausted before END element found
Dec 20, 2023 03:22:41.825 [22935370066744] ERROR - [Req#335e73/Transcode/abed8953-3b17-44e4-970b-ac04d621db55/cb21e121-cb28-406e-bee5-f81935734bc4] Error while decoding stream #0:1: Invalid data found when processing input
Dec 20, 2023 03:22:41.826 [22935464885048] ERROR - [Req#335e74/Transcode/abed8953-3b17-44e4-970b-ac04d621db55/cb21e121-cb28-406e-bee5-f81935734bc4] [aac @ 0x148b704b8140] Number of bands (47) exceeds limit (33).
Dec 20, 2023 03:22:41.826 [22935452019512] ERROR - [Req#335e75/Transcode/abed8953-3b17-44e4-970b-ac04d621db55/cb21e121-cb28-406e-bee5-f81935734bc4] Error while decoding stream #0:1: Invalid data found when processing input
Dec 20, 2023 03:22:41.826 [22935415139128] ERROR - [Req#335e76/Transcode/abed8953-3b17-44e4-970b-ac04d621db55/cb21e121-cb28-406e-bee5-f81935734bc4] [aac @ 0x148b704b8140] channel element 3.5 is not allocated
Dec 20, 2023 03:22:41.826 [22935384832824] ERROR - [Req#335e77/Transcode/abed8953-3b17-44e4-970b-ac04d621db55/cb21e121-cb28-406e-bee5-f81935734bc4] Error while decoding stream #0:1: Invalid data found when processing input
Dec 20, 2023 03:22:41.826 [22935392787256] ERROR - [Req#335e78/Transcode/abed8953-3b17-44e4-970b-ac04d621db55/cb21e121-cb28-406e-bee5-f81935734bc4] [aac @ 0x148b704b8140] channel element 3.3 is not allocated
Dec 20, 2023 03:22:41.826 [22935378504504] ERROR - [Req#335e79/Transcode/abed8953-3b17-44e4-970b-ac04d621db55/cb21e121-cb28-406e-bee5-f81935734bc4] Error while decoding stream #0:1: Invalid data found when processing input
Dec 20, 2023 03:22:41.826 [22935389051704] ERROR - [Req#335e7a/Transcode/abed8953-3b17-44e4-970b-ac04d621db55/cb21e121-cb28-406e-bee5-f81935734bc4] [aac @ 0x148b704b8140] channel element 2.5 is not allocated
Dec 20, 2023 03:22:41.826 [22935382723384] ERROR - [Req#335e7b/Transcode/abed8953-3b17-44e4-970b-ac04d621db55/cb21e121-cb28-406e-bee5-f81935734bc4] Error while decoding stream #0:1: Invalid data found when processing input
Dec 20, 2023 03:22:41.826 [22935376395064] ERROR - [Req#335e7c/Transcode/abed8953-3b17-44e4-970b-ac04d621db55/cb21e121-cb28-406e-bee5-f81935734bc4] [aac @ 0x148b704b8140] channel element 3.10 is not allocated
Dec 20, 2023 03:22:41.826 [22935478455096] ERROR - [Req#335e7d/Transcode/abed8953-3b17-44e4-970b-ac04d621db55/cb21e121-cb28-406e-bee5-f81935734bc4] Error while decoding stream #0:1: Invalid data found when processing input
Dec 20, 2023 03:22:41.827 [22935449729848] ERROR - [Req#335e7e/Transcode/abed8953-3b17-44e4-970b-ac04d621db55/cb21e121-cb28-406e-bee5-f81935734bc4] [aac @ 0x148b704b8140] Reserved bit set.
Dec 20, 2023 03:22:41.827 [22935380613944] ERROR - [Req#335e7f/Transcode/abed8953-3b17-44e4-970b-ac04d621db55/cb21e121-cb28-406e-bee5-f81935734bc4] [aac @ 0x148b704b8140] Prediction is not allowed in AAC-LC.
Dec 20, 2023 03:22:41.827 [22935401110328] ERROR - [Req#335e80/Transcode/abed8953-3b17-44e4-970b-ac04d621db55/cb21e121-cb28-406e-bee5-f81935734bc4] Error while decoding stream #0:1: Invalid data found when processing input
Dec 20, 2023 03:22:41.827 [22935447620408] ERROR - [Req#335e81/Transcode/abed8953-3b17-44e4-970b-ac04d621db55/cb21e121-cb28-406e-bee5-f81935734bc4] [aac @ 0x148b704b8140] TYPE_FIL: Input buffer exhausted before END element found
Dec 20, 2023 03:22:41.827 [22935397358392] ERROR - [Req#335e82/Transcode/abed8953-3b17-44e4-970b-ac04d621db55/cb21e121-cb28-406e-bee5-f81935734bc4] Error while decoding stream #0:1: Invalid data found when processing input
Dec 20, 2023 03:22:41.827 [22935417248568] ERROR - [Req#335e83/Transcode/abed8953-3b17-44e4-970b-ac04d621db55/cb21e121-cb28-406e-bee5-f81935734bc4] [aac @ 0x148b704b8140] Reserved bit set.
Dec 20, 2023 03:22:41.827 [22935374285624] ERROR - [Req#335e84/Transcode/abed8953-3b17-44e4-970b-ac04d621db55/cb21e121-cb28-406e-bee5-f81935734bc4] [aac @ 0x148b704b8140] Number of bands (9) exceeds limit (7).
Dec 20, 2023 03:22:41.827 [22935456246584] ERROR - [Req#335e85/Transcode/abed8953-3b17-44e4-970b-ac04d621db55/cb21e121-cb28-406e-bee5-f81935734bc4] Error while decoding stream #0:1: Invalid data found when processing input
Dec 20, 2023 03:22:41.827 [22935367957304] ERROR - [Req#335e86/Transcode/abed8953-3b17-44e4-970b-ac04d621db55/cb21e121-cb28-406e-bee5-f81935734bc4] [aac @ 0x148b704b8140] skip_data_stream_element: Input buffer exhausted before END element found
Dec 20, 2023 03:22:41.828 [22935372176184] ERROR - [Req#335e87/Transcode/abed8953-3b17-44e4-970b-ac04d621db55/cb21e121-cb28-406e-bee5-f81935734bc4] Error while decoding stream #0:1: Invalid data found when processing input
Dec 20, 2023 03:22:41.828 [22935386942264] ERROR - [Req#335e88/Transcode/abed8953-3b17-44e4-970b-ac04d621db55/cb21e121-cb28-406e-bee5-f81935734bc4] [aac @ 0x148b704b8140] Prediction is not allowed in AAC-LC.
Dec 20, 2023 03:22:41.828 [22935365847864] ERROR - [Req#335e89/Transcode/abed8953-3b17-44e4-970b-ac04d621db55/cb21e121-cb28-406e-bee5-f81935734bc4] Error while decoding stream #0:1: Invalid data found when processing input
Dec 20, 2023 03:22:41.828 [22935420357432] ERROR - [Req#335e8a/Transcode/abed8953-3b17-44e4-970b-ac04d621db55/cb21e121-cb28-406e-bee5-f81935734bc4] [aac @ 0x148b704b8140] Reserved bit set.
Dec 20, 2023 03:22:41.828 [22935395248952] ERROR - [Req#335e8b/Transcode/abed8953-3b17-44e4-970b-ac04d621db55/cb21e121-cb28-406e-bee5-f81935734bc4] [aac @ 0x148b704b8140] Number of bands (15) exceeds limit (7).
Dec 20, 2023 03:22:41.828 [22935370066744] ERROR - [Req#335e8c/Transcode/abed8953-3b17-44e4-970b-ac04d621db55/cb21e121-cb28-406e-bee5-f81935734bc4] Error while decoding stream #0:1: Invalid data found when processing input
Dec 20, 2023 03:22:41.828 [22935464885048] ERROR - [Req#335e8d/Transcode/abed8953-3b17-44e4-970b-ac04d621db55/cb21e121-cb28-406e-bee5-f81935734bc4] [aac @ 0x148b704b8140] channel element 2.8 is not allocated
Dec 20, 2023 03:22:41.828 [22935452019512] ERROR - [Req#335e8e/Transcode/abed8953-3b17-44e4-970b-ac04d621db55/cb21e121-cb28-406e-bee5-f81935734bc4] Error while decoding stream #0:1: Invalid data found when processing input
Dec 20, 2023 03:22:41.828 [22935415139128] ERROR - [Req#335e8f/Transcode/abed8953-3b17-44e4-970b-ac04d621db55/cb21e121-cb28-406e-bee5-f81935734bc4] [aac @ 0x148b704b8140] channel element 3.12 is not allocated
Dec 20, 2023 03:22:41.828 [22935384832824] ERROR - [Req#335e90/Transcode/abed8953-3b17-44e4-970b-ac04d621db55/cb21e121-cb28-406e-bee5-f81935734bc4] Error while decoding stream #0:1: Invalid data found when processing input
Dec 20, 2023 03:22:41.828 [22935392787256] ERROR - [Req#335e91/Transcode/abed8953-3b17-44e4-970b-ac04d621db55/cb21e121-cb28-406e-bee5-f81935734bc4] [aac @ 0x148b704b8140] Prediction is not allowed in AAC-LC.
Dec 20, 2023 03:22:41.829 [22935378504504] ERROR - [Req#335e92/Transcode/abed8953-3b17-44e4-970b-ac04d621db55/cb21e121-cb28-406e-bee5-f81935734bc4] Error while decoding stream #0:1: Invalid data found when processing input
Dec 20, 2023 03:22:41.829 [22935389051704] ERROR - [Req#335e93/Transcode/abed8953-3b17-44e4-970b-ac04d621db55/cb21e121-cb28-406e-bee5-f81935734bc4] [aac @ 0x148b704b8140] Number of bands (7) exceeds limit (5).
Dec 20, 2023 03:22:41.829 [22935382723384] ERROR - [Req#335e94/Transcode/abed8953-3b17-44e4-970b-ac04d621db55/cb21e121-cb28-406e-bee5-f81935734bc4] Error while decoding stream #0:1: Invalid data found when processing input
Dec 20, 2023 03:22:41.829 [22935376395064] ERROR - [Req#335e95/Transcode/abed8953-3b17-44e4-970b-ac04d621db55/cb21e121-cb28-406e-bee5-f81935734bc4] [aac @ 0x148b704b8140] channel element 3.15 is not allocated
Dec 20, 2023 03:22:41.829 [22935478455096] ERROR - [Req#335e96/Transcode/abed8953-3b17-44e4-970b-ac04d621db55/cb21e121-cb28-406e-bee5-f81935734bc4] Error while decoding stream #0:1: Invalid data found when processing input
Dec 20, 2023 03:22:41.829 [22935449729848] ERROR - [Req#335e97/Transcode/abed8953-3b17-44e4-970b-ac04d621db55/cb21e121-cb28-406e-bee5-f81935734bc4] [aac @ 0x148b704b8140] Prediction is not allowed in AAC-LC.
Dec 20, 2023 03:22:41.829 [22935380613944] ERROR - [Req#335e98/Transcode/abed8953-3b17-44e4-970b-ac04d621db55/cb21e121-cb28-406e-bee5-f81935734bc4] Error while decoding stream #0:1: Invalid data found when processing input
Dec 20, 2023 03:22:41.829 [22935401110328] ERROR - [Req#335e99/Transcode/abed8953-3b17-44e4-970b-ac04d621db55/cb21e121-cb28-406e-bee5-f81935734bc4] [aac @ 0x148b704b8140] Prediction is not allowed in AAC-LC.
Dec 20, 2023 03:22:41.830 [22935447620408] ERROR - [Req#335e9a/Transcode/abed8953-3b17-44e4-970b-ac04d621db55/cb21e121-cb28-406e-bee5-f81935734bc4] Error while decoding stream #0:1: Invalid data found when processing input
Dec 20, 2023 03:22:41.830 [22935397358392] ERROR - [Req#335e9b/Transcode/abed8953-3b17-44e4-970b-ac04d621db55/cb21e121-cb28-406e-bee5-f81935734bc4] [aac @ 0x148b704b8140] channel element 3.9 is not allocated
Dec 20, 2023 03:22:41.830 [22935417248568] ERROR - [Req#335e9c/Transcode/abed8953-3b17-44e4-970b-ac04d621db55/cb21e121-cb28-406e-bee5-f81935734bc4] Error while decoding stream #0:1: Invalid data found when processing input
Dec 20, 2023 03:22:41.830 [22935374285624] ERROR - [Req#335e9d/Transcode/abed8953-3b17-44e4-970b-ac04d621db55/cb21e121-cb28-406e-bee5-f81935734bc4] [aac @ 0x148b704b8140] Reserved bit set.
Dec 20, 2023 03:22:41.830 [22935456246584] ERROR - [Req#335e9e/Transcode/abed8953-3b17-44e4-970b-ac04d621db55/cb21e121-cb28-406e-bee5-f81935734bc4] [aac @ 0x148b704b8140] Number of bands (11) exceeds limit (8).
Dec 20, 2023 03:22:41.830 [22935367957304] ERROR - [Req#335e9f/Transcode/abed8953-3b17-44e4-970b-ac04d621db55/cb21e121-cb28-406e-bee5-f81935734bc4] Error while decoding stream #0:1: Invalid data found when processing input
Dec 20, 2023 03:22:41.830 [22935372176184] ERROR - [Req#335ea0/Transcode/abed8953-3b17-44e4-970b-ac04d621db55/cb21e121-cb28-406e-bee5-f81935734bc4] [aac @ 0x148b704b8140] channel element 3.12 is not allocated
Dec 20, 2023 03:22:41.830 [22935386942264] ERROR - [Req#335ea1/Transcode/abed8953-3b17-44e4-970b-ac04d621db55/cb21e121-cb28-406e-bee5-f81935734bc4] Error while decoding stream #0:1: Invalid data found when processing input
Dec 20, 2023 03:22:41.830 [22935365847864] ERROR - [Req#335ea2/Transcode/abed8953-3b17-44e4-970b-ac04d621db55/cb21e121-cb28-406e-bee5-f81935734bc4] [aac @ 0x148b704b8140] skip_data_stream_element: Input buffer exhausted before END element found
Dec 20, 2023 03:22:41.830 [22935420357432] ERROR - [Req#335ea3/Transcode/abed8953-3b17-44e4-970b-ac04d621db55/cb21e121-cb28-406e-bee5-f81935734bc4] Error while decoding stream #0:1: Invalid data found when processing input
Dec 20, 2023 03:22:41.831 [22935395248952] ERROR - [Req#335ea4/Transcode/abed8953-3b17-44e4-970b-ac04d621db55/cb21e121-cb28-406e-bee5-f81935734bc4] [aac @ 0x148b704b8140] Reserved bit set.
Dec 20, 2023 03:22:41.831 [22935370066744] ERROR - [Req#335ea5/Transcode/abed8953-3b17-44e4-970b-ac04d621db55/cb21e121-cb28-406e-bee5-f81935734bc4] [aac @ 0x148b704b8140] Number of bands (29) exceeds limit (12).
Dec 20, 2023 03:22:41.831 [22935464885048] ERROR - [Req#335ea6/Transcode/abed8953-3b17-44e4-970b-ac04d621db55/cb21e121-cb28-406e-bee5-f81935734bc4] Error while decoding stream #0:1: Invalid data found when processing input
Dec 20, 2023 03:22:41.831 [22935452019512] ERROR - [Req#335ea7/Transcode/abed8953-3b17-44e4-970b-ac04d621db55/cb21e121-cb28-406e-bee5-f81935734bc4] [aac @ 0x148b704b8140] ms_present = 3 is reserved.
Dec 20, 2023 03:22:41.831 [22935415139128] ERROR - [Req#335ea8/Transcode/abed8953-3b17-44e4-970b-ac04d621db55/cb21e121-cb28-406e-bee5-f81935734bc4] Error while decoding stream #0:1: Invalid data found when processing input
Dec 20, 2023 03:22:41.831 [22935384832824] ERROR - [Req#335ea9/Transcode/abed8953-3b17-44e4-970b-ac04d621db55/cb21e121-cb28-406e-bee5-f81935734bc4] [aac @ 0x148b704b8140] decode_pce: Input buffer exhausted before END element found
Dec 20, 2023 03:22:41.831 [22935392787256] ERROR - [Req#335eaa/Transcode/abed8953-3b17-44e4-970b-ac04d621db55/cb21e121-cb28-406e-bee5-f81935734bc4] Error while decoding stream #0:1: Invalid data found when processing input
Dec 20, 2023 03:22:41.831 [22935378504504] ERROR - [Req#335eab/Transcode/abed8953-3b17-44e4-970b-ac04d621db55/cb21e121-cb28-406e-bee5-f81935734bc4] [aac @ 0x148b704b8140] channel element 2.1 is not allocated
Dec 20, 2023 03:22:41.831 [22935389051704] ERROR - [Req#335eac/Transcode/abed8953-3b17-44e4-970b-ac04d621db55/cb21e121-cb28-406e-bee5-f81935734bc4] Error while decoding stream #0:1: Invalid data found when processing input
Dec 20, 2023 03:22:41.831 [22935382723384] ERROR - [Req#335ead/Transcode/abed8953-3b17-44e4-970b-ac04d621db55/cb21e121-cb28-406e-bee5-f81935734bc4] [aac @ 0x148b704b8140] skip_data_stream_element: Input buffer exhausted before END element found
Dec 20, 2023 03:22:41.832 [22935376395064] ERROR - [Req#335eae/Transcode/abed8953-3b17-44e4-970b-ac04d621db55/cb21e121-cb28-406e-bee5-f81935734bc4] Error while decoding stream #0:1: Invalid data found when processing input
Dec 20, 2023 03:22:41.832 [22935478455096] ERROR - [Req#335eaf/Transcode/abed8953-3b17-44e4-970b-ac04d621db55/cb21e121-cb28-406e-bee5-f81935734bc4] [aac @ 0x148b704b8140] Reserved bit set.
Dec 20, 2023 03:22:41.832 [22935449729848] ERROR - [Req#335eb0/Transcode/abed8953-3b17-44e4-970b-ac04d621db55/cb21e121-cb28-406e-bee5-f81935734bc4] [aac @ 0x148b704b8140] Number of bands (28) exceeds limit (13).
Dec 20, 2023 03:22:41.832 [22935380613944] ERROR - [Req#335eb1/Transcode/abed8953-3b17-44e4-970b-ac04d621db55/cb21e121-cb28-406e-bee5-f81935734bc4] Error while decoding stream #0:1: Invalid data found when processing input
Dec 20, 2023 03:22:41.832 [22935401110328] ERROR - [Req#335eb2/Transcode/abed8953-3b17-44e4-970b-ac04d621db55/cb21e121-cb28-406e-bee5-f81935734bc4] [aac @ 0x148b704b8140] Reserved bit set.
Dec 20, 2023 03:22:41.832 [22935447620408] ERROR - [Req#335eb3/Transcode/abed8953-3b17-44e4-970b-ac04d621db55/cb21e121-cb28-406e-bee5-f81935734bc4] [aac @ 0x148b704b8140] Number of bands (13) exceeds limit (9).
Dec 20, 2023 03:22:41.832 [22935397358392] ERROR - [Req#335eb4/Transcode/abed8953-3b17-44e4-970b-ac04d621db55/cb21e121-cb28-406e-bee5-f81935734bc4] Error while decoding stream #0:1: Invalid data found when processing input
Dec 20, 2023 03:22:41.832 [22935417248568] ERROR - [Req#335eb5/Transcode/abed8953-3b17-44e4-970b-ac04d621db55/cb21e121-cb28-406e-bee5-f81935734bc4] [aac @ 0x148b704b8140] Prediction is not allowed in AAC-LC.
Dec 20, 2023 03:22:41.832 [22935374285624] ERROR - [Req#335eb6/Transcode/abed8953-3b17-44e4-970b-ac04d621db55/cb21e121-cb28-406e-bee5-f81935734bc4] Error while decoding stream #0:1: Invalid data found when processing input
Dec 20, 2023 03:22:41.833 [22935456246584] ERROR - [Req#335eb7/Transcode/abed8953-3b17-44e4-970b-ac04d621db55/cb21e121-cb28-406e-bee5-f81935734bc4] [aac @ 0x148b704b8140] decode_pce: Input buffer exhausted before END element found
Dec 20, 2023 03:22:41.833 [22935367957304] ERROR - [Req#335eb8/Transcode/abed8953-3b17-44e4-970b-ac04d621db55/cb21e121-cb28-406e-bee5-f81935734bc4] Error while decoding stream #0:1: Invalid data found when processing input
Dec 20, 2023 03:22:41.833 [22935372176184] ERROR - [Req#335eb9/Transcode/abed8953-3b17-44e4-970b-ac04d621db55/cb21e121-cb28-406e-bee5-f81935734bc4] [aac @ 0x148b704b8140] decode_pce: Input buffer exhausted before END element found
Dec 20, 2023 03:22:41.833 [22935386942264] ERROR - [Req#335eba/Transcode/abed8953-3b17-44e4-970b-ac04d621db55/cb21e121-cb28-406e-bee5-f81935734bc4] Error while decoding stream #0:1: Invalid data found when processing input
Dec 20, 2023 03:22:41.833 [22935365847864] ERROR - [Req#335ebb/Transcode/abed8953-3b17-44e4-970b-ac04d621db55/cb21e121-cb28-406e-bee5-f81935734bc4] [aac @ 0x148b704b8140] Prediction is not allowed in AAC-LC.
Dec 20, 2023 03:22:41.833 [22935420357432] ERROR - [Req#335ebc/Transcode/abed8953-3b17-44e4-970b-ac04d621db55/cb21e121-cb28-406e-bee5-f81935734bc4] Error while decoding stream #0:1: Invalid data found when processing input
Dec 20, 2023 03:22:41.833 [22935395248952] ERROR - [Req#335ebd/Transcode/abed8953-3b17-44e4-970b-ac04d621db55/cb21e121-cb28-406e-bee5-f81935734bc4] [aac @ 0x148b704b8140] Reserved bit set.
Dec 20, 2023 03:22:41.833 [22935370066744] ERROR - [Req#335ebe/Transcode/abed8953-3b17-44e4-970b-ac04d621db55/cb21e121-cb28-406e-bee5-f81935734bc4] [aac @ 0x148b704b8140] Prediction is not allowed in AAC-LC.
Dec 20, 2023 03:22:41.833 [22935464885048] ERROR - [Req#335ebf/Transcode/abed8953-3b17-44e4-970b-ac04d621db55/cb21e121-cb28-406e-bee5-f81935734bc4] Error while decoding stream #0:1: Invalid data found when processing input
Dec 20, 2023 03:22:41.834 [22935452019512] ERROR - [Req#335ec0/Transcode/abed8953-3b17-44e4-970b-ac04d621db55/cb21e121-cb28-406e-bee5-f81935734bc4] [aac @ 0x148b704b8140] Prediction is not allowed in AAC-LC.
Dec 20, 2023 03:22:41.834 [22935415139128] ERROR - [Req#335ec1/Transcode/abed8953-3b17-44e4-970b-ac04d621db55/cb21e121-cb28-406e-bee5-f81935734bc4] Error while decoding stream #0:1: Invalid data found when processing input
Dec 20, 2023 03:22:41.834 [22935384832824] ERROR - [Req#335ec2/Transcode/abed8953-3b17-44e4-970b-ac04d621db55/cb21e121-cb28-406e-bee5-f81935734bc4] [aac @ 0x148b704b8140] decode_pce: Input buffer exhausted before END element found

In a nutshell, you’ve got media with badly/incorrectly/damaged AAC audio tracks.

The only problems here are:

  1. The media
  2. The entire set of logs filled up within seconds without a clue of which file(s)

Compounding, you seem to have this running in a HDD img file and this IMG file is what’s filling because Credit Detection is never completing / continuously failing from the bad media files ?

Thanks so much for the information and feel slightly dense for not having checked the logs sooner for an actual error. D’oh!

Compounding, you seem to have this running in a HDD img file and this IMG file is what’s filling because Credit Detection is never completing / continuously failing from the bad media files ?

That’s correct I have a SSD Cache drive setup with a 150GB xfs docker img. And exactly seems the bad media causes Credit Detection to never complete/continue to fail and then in turn fills that docker img.

Knowing the issue is self inflected by bad media, you mentioned currently from these logs it’s impossible to tell which piece file it might be.

If I were to turn on the Debug feature than that information would be captured?

Thanks for your time/assistance in getting to the bottom of this!