PMS crashing because of the transcoder

[Lexingtonian]

@zzzzeb @twobit88

This is resolved for me. @Afullmark’s post put me on the right track. Hope this is helpful for you.

RESOLVED: PMS 1.23.0.4480 - 1.23.1.4528 Crash on macOS Mojave 10.14.16 (Roll back to 1.22.3.4392 works fine) Transcoder Issue on Mac Os?

This is now resolved. I’m currently on Plex 1.23.4.4712 and it made through scheduled tasks cycle with no issues. This issue was, whatever Plex changed in 1.23 branch in the transcoder was causing a crash on one file in my library. Here’s how I found it. Below is an excerpt from my Plex Media Server.log file as it crashed. (Set Plex in Debug mode to capture) At the top of the log notice it starts a new Activity “Generating video preview thumbnails” and assigned it with an activity ID of 18e16a0…