Server Version#: 4.157.0
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I have a raspberry pi plex server that Ive had for many years now without no problems. A couple months ago I started having this issue across several TV shows. During scheduled tasks, the sever gets stuck doing some sort of audio analysis on my shows. The jobs don’t seem to ever finish and get capped at about 3 hrs per job. This makes the queue of jobs last all day if I dont interrupt it. This has also seemed to have prevented plex from running my other scheduled tasks like scanning or optimizing.
I have tried the following
1- Deleting the transcode folder in /tmp, forcing it to get recreated the next day.
2- Checked the storage and permissions of folders in /tmp
$ ls -ld /tmp
drwxrwxrwt - root 1 Jan 10:10 /tmp
$ df -h /tmp
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/root 118G 60G 54G 53% /
2- Deleting episode files it seems to be stuck on in case there is something wrong with those files. It always picks a new one.
3- Restarting the server and the device.
4- Reinstalling plexmediaserver on my device.
Logs:
Jan 01, 2026 09:50:50.001 [548419272928] Error — [Req#1d6e6/Transcode/814a4734-693a-4039-8f6a-3c54cd5587ac/db1fbd08-8ffc-4187-933b-da66714dafcb] [eac3_eae @ 0x7fa402b410] EAE timeout! EAE not running, or wrong folder? Could not read '/tmp/pms-e569cf69-db4b-46a4-b7b8-15d30248c6ac/EasyAudioEncoder/Convert to WAV (to 8ch or less)/814a4734-693a-4039-8f6a-3c54cd5587ac_332581-0-1691.wav'
Jan 01, 2026 09:50:50.002 [548429951200] Error — [Req#1d6fe/Transcode/814a4734-693a-4039-8f6a-3c54cd5587ac/db1fbd08-8ffc-4187-933b-da66714dafcb] [eac3_eae @ 0x7fa402b410] error reading output: -5 (I/O error) Jan 01, 2026 09:50:50.004 [548376117472] Error — [Req#1d6ff/Transcode/814a4734-693a-4039-8f6a-3c54cd5587ac/db1fbd08-8ffc-4187-933b-da66714dafcb] Error while decoding stream #0:1: I/O error
Jan 01, 2026 09:50:55.001 [548419272928] Error — [Req#1d702/Transcode/814a4734-693a-4039-8f6a-3c54cd5587ac/
When I run - $ ps aux | grep “Plex Media Server”
plex 332581 89.1 0.2 48888 23856 ? Rl 07:29 143:13 /usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Plex Transcoder -codec:1 eac3_eae -eae_prefix:1 814a4734-693a-4039-8f6a-3c54cd5587ac_ -analyzeduration 20000000 -probesize 20000000 -i /hdd/media/tv/Castlevania/S02/Castlevania.S02E02.1080p.BluRay.10-Bit.DDP5.1.x265-8RM.mkv -filter_complex [0:1] aresample=async=1:ochl=‘5.1’:rematrix_maxval=0.000000dB:osr=48000[0] -map [0] -metadata:s:0 language=eng -codec:0 flac -b:0 4096k -f flac -map_metadata -1 -map_chapters -1 -t 745.72799999999995 /var/lib/plexmediaserver/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/Cache/Transcode/Detection/c7849eab-39c0-4a2d-9335-8a5500f7d8da -y -nostats -loglevel quiet -loglevel_plex error -progressurl ``http://127.0.0.1:32400/video/:/transcode/session/814a4734-693a-4039-8f6a-3c54cd5587ac/db1fbd08-8ffc-4187-933b-da66714dafcb/progress
