Transcoder crashes on access errors

[sa2000]

@Emcee

I can replicate the transcoder crash by manually requesting a library rescan while watching a file that is transcoding. I’ve done all of the available updates to Plex, Windows, and Intel Graphics drivers.

For now I’ll set the auto library scan to just daily. Are there any logs/data you would like me to provide? I have multiple of the plex logs but no netstats.

Edit: For what it’s worth, I have 5900 episodes and about 800 movies on separate hard drives.

I do not need any more logs.

The clue is this -138 error in the Plex Media Server logs

[Transcoder] [tcp @ xxxxxxxxx] Connection to tcp://127.0.0.1:32400 failed: Error number -138 occurred

The movies libraries can be upgraded to the new in-line Movies Scanner and should therefore not cause an issue with the port usage for scanning

The TV Shows is still scanning in a separate process and so remains a problem

A curl update to be incorporated into Plex Media Server will reduce port usage by 66% whilst scanning which should help and will resolve the issue for some users. For others and until that fix is out, may need to split the TV Shows library and increase the dynamic ports and reduce time_wait

See my post earlier today which links to another

SOLUTION: Conversion failed. The transcoder exited due to an error

Thanks for the logs I can see evidence of the tcp dynamic port exhaustion issue This -138 error is one of the clues to the problem Nov 10, 2020 17:38:04.586 [8624] ERROR - [Transcoder] [tcp @ 00acb0c0] Connection to tcp://127.0.0.1:32400 failed: Error number -138 occurred The system ran out of tcp dynamic ports whilst scanning/refreshing the TV Shows library. We run out of ports when scanning / analyzing large libraries. This happened when we got to about half way through the TV Shows libra…