Server Version#: 1.32.8.7639 Player Version#: Multiple - Xbox One/One X/Series X Operating System: Windows Server 2019.Standard Recently Plex started spawning multiple and numerous “Plex Transcoder.exe” processes on the server. The last screenshot I was able to get shows a total of ~92 of these p…

[image] OttoKerner: [image] slizzap: That way when that new version is available It is already there. Plex Media Server - #610 by drzoidberg33 Which specific fix would potentially address my issue? None of the fixes listed sound like they would affect what I’m seeing. The only possible…

I have re-enabled every setting one by one, and in my testing the root cause of this problem is this setting: “Generate credits video markers” (Settings → Library) With this setting enabled, Task Manager shows 2 additional “Plex Transcoder.exe” processes every day after the 2-5 AM scheduled task w…

That seems to be the only setting causing me issues. I disabled “Generate credits video markers” again and the processes stopped incrementing. So it’s that one specifically. Is this a known issue? Was this supposed to be corrected in the newest build?

[image] slizzap: Was this supposed to be corrected in the newest build? There is nothing in the releae notes about credits detection. https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-media-server/30447/last All you can do for now is to disable the credits detection on those videos where it fails repeatedly. …

I’ll keep it disabled until a new version is released that is supposed to correct the issue. The last time I added media was 3 weeks ago, and the only video media I add is all in MKV format ripped myself from movie and TV set DVDs/BluRays. I do have some really old media in AVI format in my library…

[image] slizzap: ’m not even understanding why this process would be running in the background if I haven’t added media. It’s trying to backfill credits on all videos it didn’t process yet. If this is failing each time, it will re-try again and again. That’s why there is a setting in Plex on…

Is there a way for me to determine if there are specific video files causing problems? I used Notepad++ to search every single log file in the \Plex Media Server\Logs folder for “transcoder” and only found 2 “Plex Media Server.*” logs that had a reference to “transcoder”, and wasn’t very helpful. \…

You might want to enable “Debug” logging in your server preferences. (do NOT enable “verbose” logging)

The command line column in Windows Task Manager should show the file path in the ffmpeg command.

Good call. After turning that setting back on and enabling Debug logging , I was able to capture this additional info. Here’s a screenshot of the process and command line: [ProcExpl-PlexTranscoder] Attached is an export of all the search hits looking for “transcoder” in every log file. However, I…

PMS on Windows Server spawning tons of "Plex Transcoder.exe" processes causing Windows to crash

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slizzap February 26, 2024, 1:34pm 44

While it seems Plex is having issues with all of my 4K movies, for whatever reason Spiderman Into the Spiderverse seems to be the most problematic. Reviewing this morning all of my 4K movies are using 2 processes each, but Spiderman is now up to 5.

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PMS on Windows Server spawning tons of "Plex Transcoder.exe" processes causing Windows to crash

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