7 hours ago
(This post was last modified: 7 hours ago by QuarkSolution. Edited 1 time in total.)
So, I am at my wit's end. I cannot, for the life of me, figure out what's happening.
There's this one TV show that hangs Jellyfin during playback. For every other media that I have, Jellyfin works flawlessly (be it HDR10, DV, 4k, 1080p, SD, HEVC, AV1, super high bitrate H.264 media from my drone, everything else works).
For that specific show in question, whenever I start playback, Jellyfin's CPU usage goes through the roof (RAM usage too), even though the playback starts as direct play. About 5 second after the playback starts, the Playback Info modal in the playback client gets refreshed, and the playback method is shown to be "null". Jellyfin becomes extremely laggy (and eventually unresponsive), and the dashboard (and Jellystat) shows that there are no active playbacks.
At this point, if I restart my Jellyfin container (Linuxserver version), the Playback Info modal gets refreshed again, and shows the playback method to be direct play, Jellyfin becomes responsive, and the dashboard (and Jellystat) starts showing the active playback. This works until a new episode is played, when the problem resurfaces.
The logs show nothing. As in, literally nothing. There's no mention that any playback started for that specific TV show for newly started playbacks. Every other media is logged whenever a playback is started and stopped, but for that one specific TV show, nothing is logged, and a newly started playback always hangs the server. When I restart the server with an already active playback of that TV show in a client, the logs show what is expected, the active playback is logged normally, and when the episode is completed, Jellyfin logs playback stopped. But when a new episode is started, the same problem resurfaces, no logs, and the server hangs.
This TV show plays fine on Emby, which is my backup media server. And it plays fine on VLC via an SMB mount.
This is the MediaInfo output for an episode of the TV show that hung the server:
There's this one TV show that hangs Jellyfin during playback. For every other media that I have, Jellyfin works flawlessly (be it HDR10, DV, 4k, 1080p, SD, HEVC, AV1, super high bitrate H.264 media from my drone, everything else works).
For that specific show in question, whenever I start playback, Jellyfin's CPU usage goes through the roof (RAM usage too), even though the playback starts as direct play. About 5 second after the playback starts, the Playback Info modal in the playback client gets refreshed, and the playback method is shown to be "null". Jellyfin becomes extremely laggy (and eventually unresponsive), and the dashboard (and Jellystat) shows that there are no active playbacks.
At this point, if I restart my Jellyfin container (Linuxserver version), the Playback Info modal gets refreshed again, and shows the playback method to be direct play, Jellyfin becomes responsive, and the dashboard (and Jellystat) starts showing the active playback. This works until a new episode is played, when the problem resurfaces.
The logs show nothing. As in, literally nothing. There's no mention that any playback started for that specific TV show for newly started playbacks. Every other media is logged whenever a playback is started and stopped, but for that one specific TV show, nothing is logged, and a newly started playback always hangs the server. When I restart the server with an already active playback of that TV show in a client, the logs show what is expected, the active playback is logged normally, and when the episode is completed, Jellyfin logs playback stopped. But when a new episode is started, the same problem resurfaces, no logs, and the server hangs.
This TV show plays fine on Emby, which is my backup media server. And it plays fine on VLC via an SMB mount.
This is the MediaInfo output for an episode of the TV show that hung the server:
General
Unique ID : 159473147278258447040322751687959139258 (0x77F96935203D05365BF10512127653BA)
Complete name : /run/user/1000/doc/46eb51f2/S08E15 - Go Tina on the Mountain.mkv
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Duration : 21 min 37 s
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Encoded date : 2021-10-16 20:53:01 UTC
Writing application : mkvmerge v61.0.0 ('So') 64-bit
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Video
ID : 1
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Title : Encoded by: ImEverlasting
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Audio
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Bit rate mode : Constant
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Channel(s) : 6 channels
Channel layout : L R C LFE Ls Rs
Sampling rate : 48.0 kHz
Frame rate : 31.250 FPS (1536 SPF)
Compression mode : Lossy
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cene 2
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