Emby Server: Transcoding-temp filling up C drive with 150GB+ ts file

[Traction Tim 11]

Bit of a weird one this. I logged in to my Emby server and noted that Blue Iris was complaining about low hard drive capacity on my usually 1/3 full 250GB C drive. I had a search and found C:\Users\Tim\AppData\Roaming\Emby-Server\programdata\transcoding-temp had a 159GB ts file in it that was still growing and I only had 2GB left. I stopped Emby server, and checked what it was and then deleted the file. There was a second file that when opened showed a terrestrial tv program that I don't ever watch. Am I being hacked by UK Soap TV watchers I thought ?

As far as I understand, my FireTV and Nvidia Shield Emby clients are all HD and don't need anything to be transcoded. This has never happened before, and Emby has been working very well for months.

I think I have added the correct log file - this happened on Sunday the 11th April 2021 and I realised I had a problem at around 20:00. Users could be Tim or Liz.

Can you see what happened ?

embyserver-63753782402.txt

[Guest]

I see transcoding for Top Gear.. One of my Favs.. Someone else will have to look at it in detail..

( Love watching Chris Review Cars.. and the rest of the guys too.. good show )

I had this happen a long time ago but it only happened once... I caught it before it got too bad though... Never happened again.

I don't get transcoding issues either ( most options for conversion are even turned off on mine ) I Direct Play but I do not have a Live TV tuner going either...

[Traction Tim 11]

The HDHomerun quatro combined with Emby works very well, and has made normal tv seem very old fashioned.

I did note in the log that 192.168.2.45 was active fairly late on. That didn't make much sense, as it is a FireTV 4k stick on the kitchen tv and I hadn't been in there for an hour or two. I rebooted that firestick just in case.