Failed to write frame to ffmpeg: Broken pipe (os error 32)

[louis030195]

ERROR screenpipe_server::video] Failed to write frame to ffmpeg: Broken pipe (os error 32)

this is a new error, did not exist last week

gotta look at what changed but this error is nondeterminisitc (e.g. sometime just restart and it works) and affects only the screen video encoding

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[louis030195]

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[tmahmood]

Interested about this. Can you describe how to reproduce this error? When this error occurs?

[louis030195]

i have no idea

does not happen frequently, seems random

[tmahmood]

Any debug log? Does this happen to fresh install? Is it fatal? I'm seeing many errors about missing files, but have not seen this one.

[louis030195]

@tmahmood what do you mean missing files?

did not see anyone complaining about this for 3-4 days so i think you might just look at solving other issues and maybe it will come up

[booti386]

Which operating system? It looks like ffmpeg closes its input stream (crashes maybe?) before receiving all the data.

[louis030195]

@booti386 saw this on linux (some user) and on my mac once

[louis030195]

[MinisculeGirraffe]

There's no practical way to debug this because you're not pinning a known ffmpeg version with the application.

For some reason, ffmpeg is closing it's input stream, so that log is being generated.

I could add retry logic so when the input stream is closed it re-creates a new process. But that doesn't exactly solve the root issue here of "It's going to do weird stuff because platform/feature flag/version differences".

[louis030195]

@MinisculeGirraffe probably solving this https://github.com/mediar-ai/screenpipe/issues/194 would be a more long term investment if you want to give a try

[heo001997]

@louis030195 this is the exact way to fix the error on my macos (fresh install DEC 17)

brew reinstall x265

And that Failed to write frame to ffmpeg: Broken pipe (os error 32) will be completely gone, good luck!

[amori1729]

brew reinstall x265

Didn't work for me, but brew reinstall ffmpeg did. Also on macos