RAM Leak on Emby Server while Live TV Streaming

[dietera 1]

Hello,

since mid of december I got a strange RAM Leak problem occruing with the latest emby server version(s) for windows. While streaming videos and series (and transcodes of them) are no problem at all, the RAM starts leaking when starting a stream over the Live TV streaming. One single tv stream happens to get the server executable to bloat up to over 12 GB of RAM usage. The process can then only be killed via taskmanager and be started again manually.

I attach the last log when this happened and also include the ffmpeg transcode.

Server:

Windows 10

AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-Core Processor 

24 GB RAM

Emby runs from 2 TB SSD

embyserver-63903075062.txt ffmpeg-directstream-1288ac08-8a5f-4b74-82fc-b46b7c3ef7c5_1.txt

[Abobader 3464]

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[dietera 1]

Anyone has an idea what do?

[Luke 42077]

Hi, please try removing these plugins:

2026-01-03 19:35:21.290 Info App: Loading Emby.Plugin.Ard, Version=4.7.0.51, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null from D:\Emby\programdata\plugins\Emby.Plugin.Ard.dll
2026-01-03 19:35:21.290 Info App: Loading Emby.Plugin.Zdf, Version=4.8.0.20, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null from D:\Emby\programdata\plugins\Emby.Plugin.Zdf.dll2026-01-03 19:35:21.291 Info App: Loading Restart, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null from D:\Emby\programdata\plugins\Restart.dll
2026-01-03 19:35:21.291 Info App: Loading statistics, Version=3.4.2.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null from D:\Emby\programdata\plugins\Statistics.dll
2026-01-03 19:35:21.291 Info App: Loading VirtualTV, Version=2.1.7.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null from D:\Emby\programdata\plugins\VirtualTV.dll

Then restart the server and let us know how things compare. Thanks.

[dietera 1]

Hi, thank you for the answer. I uninstalled all of them and tested a couple of minutes Live TV streaming. For now it seems stable and no RAM leaking detected. Stable at 2.5 to 3 GB usage.

Will keep an eye on that!