Extremely High Disk Usage Playing Particular File

[awakemargaret]

Hey everyone!

I am hoping I can maybe get some help with a weird issue I've been having.

Every media file, whether it needs to be transcoded or not, seems to work great on my Jellyfin server.

However, there is one single episode of one show that causing the disk usage in the VM that Jellyfin is running in to spike significantly, crashing the entire VM. It doesn't happen for any media except this episode, and the episode in the series just before that plays fine.

Here is what it looks like when the media is running. The extremely high spike in disk usage is right before I had to restart the VM:



I attached a normal video playback log, as well as a crash log. Feel free to let me know if you need more info.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

[TheDreadPirate]

The file is probably corrupt. I've found that if ffmpeg encounters a corrupt file it either crashes immediately or tries to workaround it, depending on the kind and severity of the corruption. The spike in disk usage tells me it is trying to workaround the issue.