[BUG] Unable to start transcription with large video files.

[Davide9908]

Hi, i'm trying to transcribe a large file (3h of gameplay, 13.4 GB) but the file is stuck on "Waiting for transcription..."
Once the file is uploaded the web page first returns an error:

then after a couple of second the "backend" process inside the container crashes and it is restarted with the following logs:

I'm runnning docker in Windows 11 using a Nvidia gpu

I think this issue may be related to #79

[Satanic-Spirit]

I'm facing the same issue. It seems that if I send a bigger file the backend crashes.

[Satanic-Spirit]

I looked into it further and found out that Whishper docker was using too much ram and the kernel was killing the process. I tried to put the limits but no success. Is there any way to limit the memory usage and then restart the job from same point?

[Steltek]

Have you tried rendering out just the audio from the video and uploading just that? (If the memory usage comes from the file getting loaded into RAM somewhere, this should drastically reduce it.)

[Satanic-Spirit]

I can give that a shot, but I'm running 16 GB ram on the system with proxmox needing like 1 to operate. Even if a video file is 2 GB it should have sufficient memory but it skyrockets like no tomorrow.