ffmpeg cpu 100%

[bishop2001 2]

Greetings

i periodically see the ffmpeg process hit 100% even when im not using emby. Is this expected ?

Thanks,

[Luke 42085]

Hi, is it normal? Sometimes yes, but it really depends. Can we please look at an example?

Thanks.

[bishop2001 2]

[Luke 42085]

Can we please look at a specific example using the information requested here:

Thanks !

[Happy2Play 9784]

What happened at those time?  Was media added?  Was media being played?

Are there schedules tasks that happened at about those times?

[bishop2001 2]

No nothing playing, I heard the fan go on and saw this process pegged at 100% each time and last few weeks as well just never really paid attention to it.

Edited May 26, 2022 by bishop2001

[Luke 42085]

5 minutes ago, bishop2001 said:

No nothing playing, I heard the fan go on and saw this process pegged at 100% each time and last few weeks as well just never really paid attention to it.

Hi, can you please attach the emby server and ffmpeg log files from an example? Instructions are in my link above. Thanks.

[visproduction 317]

This appears to be a know issue from ffmpeg.
https://resulthunter.com/search?engine=1&q=ffmpeg+windows+causes+100%+CPU

[Luke 42085]

28 minutes ago, visproduction said:

This appears to be a know issue from ffmpeg.
https://resulthunter.com/search?engine=1&q=ffmpeg+windows+causes+100%+CPU

It's not a known issue, it's just the way that it works. It's going to try and go as fast as your system will allow.

[softworkz 5073]

On 5/27/2022 at 12:57 AM, bishop2001 said:

No nothing playing, I heard the fan go on and saw this process pegged at 100% each time and last few weeks as well just never really paid attention to it.

This still shouldn't happen unless

• A playback is active
• A TV recording is active
• A conversion (convert media/download) is running
• Image extraction is running AND you have a weak system (with few cores)
• Image extraction is running AND the file can't be handled through quick image extraction
  (means the whole video needs to be decoded, frame-by-frame)

Image extraction may run daily, but only when

• You have added new media
• You have changed extraction options for a library
• There's some error and the same extraction is repeated over and over
  (there might be an issue like this currently)

To tell exactly what's happening, we'd need to see the server log
(you can also PM it)