[Config Support]: Sudden issues causing skipped frames and lost recordings

[AssistMyHome]

Describe the problem you are having

My notifications (through HA) are not working. Logs in HA show the automation is never being triggered pointing me to an issue with Frigate. I noticed this is likely due to detect streams having issues (warnings in logs) and I also noticed windows of time (sometimes >1 hour) have no recordings at all.

Version

0.17.1

Frigate config file

mqtt:
  host: 10.105.90.2
  port: 1883
  user: *
  password: *

audio:
  enabled: true

review:
  alerts:
    labels:
      - car
      - person
      - speech

detectors:
  ov0:
    type: openvino
    device: GPU
  ov1:
    type: openvino
    device: GPU

model:
  width: 300
  height: 300
  input_tensor: nhwc
  input_pixel_format: bgr
  path: /openvino-model/ssdlite_mobilenet_v2.xml
  labelmap_path: /openvino-model/coco_91cl_bkgr.txt

record:
  enabled: true
  alerts:
    pre_capture: 8
    post_capture: 10
    retain:
      days: 14
  detections:
    pre_capture: 8
    post_capture: 10
    retain:
      days: 14

  continuous:
    days: 14
  motion:
    days: 14
detect:
  enabled: true

objects:
  track:
    - person
    - car
    - cat
    - dog

snapshots:
  enabled: true
  clean_copy: true
  timestamp: true
  bounding_box: true
  crop: false

go2rtc:
  streams:
    # Reolink Cams
    Front_Door:
      - ffmpeg:https://10.105.90.8/flv?port=1935&app=bcs&stream=channel0_main.bcs&user=*&password=*
    Front_Door_sub:
      - ffmpeg:https://10.105.90.8/flv?port=1935&app=bcs&stream=channel0_sub.bcs&user=*&password=*
    Frontyard:
      - ffmpeg:https://10.105.90.31/flv?port=1935&app=bcs&stream=channel0_main.bcs&user=*&password=*

    # Empire Tech Cams
    Northside:
      - rtsp://*:*@10.105.90.32/cam/realmonitor?channel=1&subtype=0

cameras:
  Front_Door:
    enabled: true
    ffmpeg:
      hwaccel_args: preset-intel-qsv-h264
      inputs:
        - path: rtsp://127.0.0.1:8554/Front_Door
          input_args: preset-rtsp-restream
          roles:
            - audio
            - record
        - path: rtsp://127.0.0.1:8554/Front_Door_sub
          input_args: preset-rtsp-restream
          roles:
            - detect
    webui_url: https://10.105.90.8/
    zones:
      CloseUp:
        coordinates: 
          0.002,0.997,0,0.647,0.187,0.708,0.533,0.705,0.851,0.623,1,0.629,0.999,0.998
        loitering_time: 0
        inertia: 3
        objects:
          - cat
          - dog
          - person
      AtTheDoor:
        coordinates: 0.119,1,0.615,1,0.59,0.778,0.244,0.782
        loitering_time: 0
      NoCars:
        coordinates: 
          0,0.657,0.2,0.732,0.563,0.719,0.883,0.615,1,0.647,1,0.274,0.001,0.247
        loitering_time: 0
        objects:
          - cat
          - dog
          - person
        inertia: 3
    review:
      alerts:
        required_zones: CloseUp
    motion:
      mask:
        - 0,0,0,0.48,0.246,0.48,0.297,0.406,0.28,0.338,0.317,0
        - 0.53,0.063,0.603,0.066,0.601,0.002,0.53,0.002
        - 0.246,0.299,0.906,0.327,1,0.247,1,0.145,0.89,0,0.309,0
  Frontyard:
    enabled: true
    face_recognition:
      enabled: false
    ffmpeg:
      hwaccel_args: preset-intel-qsv-h264
      inputs:
        - path: rtsp://127.0.0.1:8554/Frontyard
          input_args: preset-rtsp-restream
          roles:
            - audio
            - record
    webui_url: https://10.105.90.31/
  Northside:
    enabled: true
    face_recognition:
      enabled: false
    ffmpeg:
      hwaccel_args: preset-intel-qsv-h264
      inputs:
        - path: rtsp://127.0.0.1:8554/Northside
          input_args: preset-rtsp-restream
          roles:
            - audio
            - record
    webui_url: https://10.105.90.32/
version: 0.17-0
camera_groups:
  Turrets:
    order: 1
    icon: LuCctv
    cameras:
      - Frontyard
      - Northside
  Driveway:
    order: 2
    icon: LuCar
    cameras:
      - Frontyard
      - Front_Door
  Test:
    order: 3
    icon: LuAccessibility
    cameras:
      - Frontyard
      - Northside

logger:
  logs:
    frigate.record.maintainer: debug

Relevant Frigate log output

info    | 2026-04-03 14:43:04 | startup                   | Preparing Frigate...
info    | 2026-04-03 14:43:05 | startup                   | Starting Frigate...
info    | 2026-04-03 14:43:08 | frigate.util.config       | Checking if frigate config needs migration...
info    | 2026-04-03 14:43:08 | frigate.util.config       | frigate config does not need migration...
warning | 2026-04-03 14:43:11 | frigate.util.services     | Did not detect hwaccel, using a GPU for accelerated video decoding is highly recommended
info    | 2026-04-03 14:43:25 | frigate.app               | Starting Frigate (0.17.1-416a9b7)
info    | 2026-04-03 14:43:25 | peewee_migrate.logs       | Starting migrations
info    | 2026-04-03 14:43:25 | peewee_migrate.logs       | There is nothing to migrate
info    | 2026-04-03 14:43:25 | frigate.app               | Recording process started: 735
info    | 2026-04-03 14:43:25 | frigate.app               | Review process started: 748
info    | 2026-04-03 14:43:25 | frigate.app               | go2rtc process pid: 127
info    | 2026-04-03 14:43:25 | frigate.app               | Embedding process started: 758
info    | 2026-04-03 14:43:25 | frigate.app               | Output process started: 812
info    | 2026-04-03 14:43:25 | frigate.camera.maintainer | Camera processor started for Front_Door: 850
info    | 2026-04-03 14:43:25 | frigate.camera.maintainer | Capture process started for Front_Door: 920
info    | 2026-04-03 14:43:25 | frigate.audio_manager     | Audio processor started (pid: 839)
info    | 2026-04-03 14:43:25 | frigate.camera.maintainer | Camera processor started for Frontyard: 1026
info    | 2026-04-03 14:43:25 | frigate.camera.maintainer | Capture process started for Frontyard: 1091
info    | 2026-04-03 14:43:25 | frigate.camera.maintainer | Camera processor started for Northside: 1168
info    | 2026-04-03 14:43:26 | frigate.camera.maintainer | Capture process started for Northside: 1234
info    | 2026-04-03 14:43:26 | frigate.api.fastapi_app   | Starting FastAPI app
info    | 2026-04-03 14:43:26 | frigate.api.fastapi_app   | FastAPI started
debug   | 2026-04-03 14:43:55 | frigate.record.maintainer | Found 1 old frames.
info    | 2026-04-03 14:43:56 | watchdog.Northside        | No frames received from Northside in 20 seconds. Exiting ffmpeg...
info    | 2026-04-03 14:43:56 | watchdog.Northside        | Waiting for ffmpeg to exit gracefully...
debug   | 2026-04-03 14:44:15 | frigate.record.maintainer | Found 1 old frames.
info    | 2026-04-03 14:44:26 | watchdog.Northside        | FFmpeg did not exit. Force killing...
error   | 2026-04-03 14:44:26 | frigate.video             | Northside: Unable to read frames from ffmpeg process.
info    | 2026-04-03 14:44:26 | logging                   | 
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debug   | 2026-04-03 14:45:05 | frigate.record.maintainer | Found 2 old frames.
debug   | 2026-04-03 14:45:05 | frigate.record.maintainer | Copied /media/frigate/recordings/2026-04-03/14/Front_Door/43.51.mp4 in 0.05321812629699707 seconds.
debug   | 2026-04-03 14:45:05 | frigate.record.maintainer | Copied /media/frigate/recordings/2026-04-03/14/Front_Door/44.01.mp4 in 0.05825686454772949 seconds.
warning | 2026-04-03 14:45:10 | frigate.record.maintainer | Too many unprocessed recording segments in cache for Frontyard. This likely indicates an issue with the detect stream, keeping the 6 most recent segments out of 7 and discarding the rest...
info    | 2026-04-03 14:45:16 | watchdog.Northside        | FFmpeg did not exit. Force killing...
error   | 2026-04-03 14:45:16 | frigate.video             | Northside: Unable to read frames from ffmpeg process.
info    | 2026-04-03 14:45:16 | logging                   | Last message repeated 98 times
info    | 2026-04-03 14:45:16 | watchdog.Northside        | Waiting for capture thread to exit...
error   | 2026-04-03 14:45:16 | frigate.video             | Northside: Unable to read frames from ffmpeg process.
error   | 2026-04-03 14:45:16 | frigate.video             | Northside: ffmpeg process is not running. exiting capture thread...
error   | 2026-04-03 14:45:16 | watchdog.Northside        | The following ffmpeg logs include the last 100 lines prior to exit.
error   | 2026-04-03 14:45:16 | ffmpeg.Northside.detect   | libva info: VA-API version 1.22.0
error   | 2026-04-03 14:45:16 | ffmpeg.Northside.detect   | libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/iHD_drv_video.so
error   | 2026-04-03 14:45:16 | ffmpeg.Northside.detect   | libva info: Found init function __vaDriverInit_1_22
error   | 2026-04-03 14:45:16 | ffmpeg.Northside.detect   | libva info: va_openDriver() returns 0
error   | 2026-04-03 14:45:16 | ffmpeg.Northside.detect   | [aac @ 0x62ebac34ce80] Too many bits 8832.000000 > 6144 per frame requested, clamping to max
info    | 2026-04-03 14:45:16 | watchdog.Northside        | Restarting ffmpeg...
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info    | 2026-04-03 14:46:06 | watchdog.Northside        | Restarting ffmpeg...
warning | 2026-04-03 14:46:10 | frigate.record.maintainer | Too many unprocessed recording segments in cache for Frontyard. This likely indicates an issue with the detect stream, keeping the 6 most recent segments out of 7 and discarding the rest...
unknown | 2026-04-03 14:46:10 | unknown                   | [ WARN:0@183.402] global cap.cpp:175 open VIDEOIO(CV_IMAGES): raised OpenCV exception:
unknown | 2026-04-03 14:54:31 | unknown                   | 26-04-03 14:46:10.648756084
unknown | 2026-04-03 14:46:10 | unknown                   | OpenCV(4.11.0) /io/opencv/modules/videoio/src/cap_images.cpp:267: error: (-215:Assertion failed) number < max_number in function 'icvExtractPattern'
unknown | 2026-04-03 14:54:31 | unknown                   | 26-04-03 14:46:10.648758580
unknown | 2026-04-03 14:54:31 | unknown                   | 26-04-03 14:46:10.648759263
warning | 2026-04-03 14:46:10 | frigate.record.maintainer | Invalid or missing video stream in segment /tmp/cache/Northside@20260403144518+0000.mp4. Discarding.
warning | 2026-04-03 14:46:20 | frigate.record.maintainer | Too many unprocessed recording segments in cache for Frontyard. This likely indicates an issue with the detect stream, keeping the 6 most recent segments out of 7 and discarding the rest...
warning | 2026-04-03 14:46:25 | frigate.record.maintainer | Too many unprocessed recording segments in cache for Front_Door. This likely indicates an issue with the detect stream, keeping the 6 most recent segments out of 7 and discarding the rest...
info    | 2026-04-03 14:46:26 | watchdog.Northside        | No frames received from Northside in 20 seconds. Exiting ffmpeg...
info    | 2026-04-03 14:46:26 | watchdog.Northside        | Waiting for ffmpeg to exit gracefully...

Relevant go2rtc log output

info    | 2026-04-03 14:43:05 | startup | Preparing new go2rtc config...
info    | 2026-04-03 14:43:05 | startup | Starting go2rtc...
info    | 2026-04-03 14:43:05 | startup | go2rtc platform=linux/amd64 revision=df95ce3 version=1.9.10
info    | 2026-04-03 14:43:05 | startup | config path=/config/go2rtc_homekit.yml
info    | 2026-04-03 14:43:05 | rtsp    | listen addr=:8554
info    | 2026-04-03 14:43:05 | api     | listen addr=:1984
info    | 2026-04-03 14:43:05 | webrtc  | listen addr=:8555
info    | 2026-04-03 14:43:14 | startup | Starting go2rtc healthcheck service...
info    | 2026-04-03 14:44:07 | streams | can't add track error="wrong media: audio, sendonly, PCMU/8000, G726/8000, MPEG4-GENERIC/16000"
warning | 2026-04-03 14:44:07 | startup | github.com/AlexxIT/go2rtc/internal/streams/producer.go:170 > error="start from CONN state" url=rtsp://*:*@10.105.90.32/cam/realmonitor?channel=1&subtype=0
info    | 2026-04-03 14:44:10 | streams | can't add track error="wrong media: audio, sendonly, PCMU/8000, G726/8000, MPEG4-GENERIC/16000"
warning | 2026-04-03 14:44:10 | startup | github.com/AlexxIT/go2rtc/internal/streams/producer.go:170 > error="start from CONN state" url=rtsp://*:*@10.105.90.32/cam/realmonitor?channel=1&subtype=0

Frigate stats

{
  "cameras": {
    "Front_Door": {
      "camera_fps": 5,
      "process_fps": 0.1,
      "skipped_fps": 5,
      "detection_fps": 0,
      "detection_enabled": true,
      "pid": 850,
      "capture_pid": 920,
      "ffmpeg_pid": 978,
      "audio_rms": 46.723,
      "audio_dBFS": -56.9184
    },
    "Frontyard": {
      "camera_fps": 5,
      "process_fps": 0.1,
      "skipped_fps": 5,
      "detection_fps": 0,
      "detection_enabled": true,
      "pid": 1026,
      "capture_pid": 1091,
      "ffmpeg_pid": 1157,
      "audio_rms": 195.2532,
      "audio_dBFS": -44.497
    },
    "Northside": {
      "camera_fps": 0,
      "process_fps": 0,
      "skipped_fps": 0,
      "detection_fps": 0,
      "detection_enabled": true,
      "pid": 1168,
      "capture_pid": 1234,
      "ffmpeg_pid": 144282,
      "audio_rms": 25.8067,
      "audio_dBFS": -62.0743
    }
  },
  "detectors": {
    "ov0": {
      "inference_speed": 10,
      "detection_start": 0,
      "pid": 790
    },
    "ov1": {
      "inference_speed": 10,
      "detection_start": 0,
      "pid": 800
    }
  },
  "camera_fps": 10,
  "process_fps": 0.2,
  "skipped_fps": 10,
  "detection_fps": 0,
  "embeddings": {

  },
  "gpu_usages": {
    "intel-qsv": {
      "gpu": "50.0%",
      "mem": "-%",
      "clients": {
        "465": "0.0%",
        "790": "0.0%",
        "800": "0.0%",
        "978": "0.0%",
        "1157": "0.0%",
        "144282": "0.0%"
      }
    }
  },
  "cpu_usages": {
    "frigate.full_system": {
      "cpu": "8.5",
      "mem": "18.0"
    },
    "1": {
      "cpu": "0.0",
      "cpu_average": "0",
      "mem": "0.0",
      "cmdline": "/package/admin/s6/command/s6-svscan -d4 -- /run/service"
    },
    "17": {
      "cpu": "0.0",
      "cpu_average": "0",
      "mem": "0.0",
      "cmdline": "s6-supervise s6-linux-init-shutdownd"
    },
    "18": {
      "cpu": "0.0",
      "cpu_average": "0",
      "mem": "0.0",
      "cmdline": "/package/admin/s6-linux-init/command/s6-linux-init-shutdownd -d3 -c /run/s6/basedir -g 3000 -C -B"
    },
    "27": {
      "cpu": "0.0",
      "cpu_average": "0",
      "mem": "0.0",
      "cmdline": "s6-supervise s6rc-fdholder"
    },
    "28": {
      "cpu": "0.0",
      "cpu_average": "0",
      "mem": "0.0",
      "cmdline": "s6-supervise go2rtc-healthcheck"
    },
    "29": {
      "cpu": "0.0",
      "cpu_average": "0",
      "mem": "0.0",
      "cmdline": "s6-supervise certsync"
    },
    "30": {
      "cpu": "0.0",
      "cpu_average": "0",
      "mem": "0.0",
      "cmdline": "s6-supervise certsync-log"
    },
    "31": {
      "cpu": "0.0",
      "cpu_average": "0",
      "mem": "0.0",
      "cmdline": "s6-supervise frigate"
    },
    "32": {
      "cpu": "0.0",
      "cpu_average": "0",
      "mem": "0.0",
      "cmdline": "s6-supervise go2rtc-log"
    },
    "33": {
      "cpu": "0.0",
      "cpu_average": "0",
      "mem": "0.0",
      "cmdline": "s6-supervise frigate-log"
    },
    "34": {
      "cpu": "0.0",
      "cpu_average": "0",
      "mem": "0.0",
      "cmdline": "s6-supervise s6rc-oneshot-runner"
    },
    "35": {
      "cpu": "0.0",
      "cpu_average": "0",
      "mem": "0.0",
      "cmdline": "s6-supervise nginx"
    },
    "36": {
      "cpu": "0.0",
      "cpu_average": "0",
      "mem": "0.0",
      "cmdline": "s6-supervise go2rtc"
    },
    "37": {
      "cpu": "0.0",
      "cpu_average": "0",
      "mem": "0.0",
      "cmdline": "s6-supervise nginx-log"
    },
    "48": {
      "cpu": "0.0",
      "cpu_average": "0",
      "mem": "0.0",
      "cmdline": "/package/admin/s6-2.13.2.0/command/s6-fdholderd -1 -n 256 -i data/rules"
    },
    "49": {
      "cpu": "0.0",
      "cpu_average": "0",
      "mem": "0.0",
      "cmdline": "/package/admin/s6/command/s6-ipcserverd -1 -- /package/admin/s6/command/s6-ipcserver-access -v0 -E -l0 -i data/rules -- /package/admin/s6/command/s6-sudod -t 30000 -- /package/admin/s6-rc/command/s6-rc-oneshot-run -l ../.. --"
    },
    "97": {
      "cpu": "0.0",
      "cpu_average": "0",
      "mem": "0.0",
      "cmdline": "s6-log -b -- T 1 n0 s10000000 T /dev/shm/logs/nginx"
    },
    "102": {
      "cpu": "0.0",
      "cpu_average": "0",
      "mem": "0.0",
      "cmdline": "s6-log -b -- T 1 n0 s10000000 T /dev/shm/logs/go2rtc"
    },
    "103": {
      "cpu": "0.0",
      "cpu_average": "0",
      "mem": "0.0",
      "cmdline": "s6-log -b -- T 1 n0 s10000000 T /dev/shm/logs/frigate"
    },
    "104": {
      "cpu": "0.0",
      "cpu_average": "0",
      "mem": "0.0",
      "cmdline": "s6-log -b -- T 1 n0 s10000000 T /dev/shm/logs/certsync"
    },
    "127": {
      "cpu": "8.8",
      "cpu_average": "7",
      "mem": "0.1",
      "cmdline": "/usr/local/go2rtc/bin/go2rtc -config=/config/go2rtc_homekit.yml -config=/dev/shm/go2rtc.yaml"
    },
    "136": {
      "cpu": "0.0",
      "cpu_average": "0",
      "mem": "0.0",
      "cmdline": "bash ./run.user go2rtc-healthcheck"
    },
    "137": {
      "cpu": "1.5",
      "cpu_average": "2",
      "mem": "0.9",
      "cmdline": "python3 -u -m frigate"
    },
    "143": {
      "cpu": "0.0",
      "cpu_average": "0",
      "mem": "0.0",
      "cmdline": "nginx: master process nginx"
    },
    "206": {
      "cpu": "0.1",
      "cpu_average": "0",
      "mem": "0.0",
      "cmdline": "nginx: worker process"
    },
    "207": {
      "cpu": "0.1",
      "cpu_average": "0",
      "mem": "0.0",
      "cmdline": "nginx: worker process"
    },
    "208": {
      "cpu": "0.0",
      "cpu_average": "0",
      "mem": "0.0",
      "cmdline": "nginx: worker process"
    },
    "209": {
      "cpu": "0.0",
      "cpu_average": "0",
      "mem": "0.0",
      "cmdline": "nginx: worker process"
    },
    "215": {
      "cpu": "0.0",
      "cpu_average": "0",
      "mem": "0.0",
      "cmdline": "nginx: cache manager process"
    },
    "344": {
      "cpu": "0.0",
      "cpu_average": "0",
      "mem": "0.0",
      "cmdline": "bash ./run.user certsync"
    },
    "432": {
      "cpu": "0.0",
      "cpu_average": "0",
      "mem": "0.0",
      "cmdline": "/usr/bin/python3 -Wignore:::numpy.core.getlimits -c from multiprocessing.resource_tracker import main;main(5)"
    },
    "433": {
      "cpu": "0.0",
      "cpu_average": "0",
      "mem": "0.5",
      "cmdline": "/usr/bin/python3 -Wignore:::numpy.core.getlimits -c from multiprocessing.forkserver import main; main(5, 7, ['sqlite3', 'numpy', 'cv2', 'peewee', 'zmq', 'ruamel.yaml', 'frigate.camera.maintainer'], **{'sys_path': ['/opt/frigate', '/usr/lib/python311.zip', '/usr/lib/python3.11', '/usr/lib/python3.11/lib-dynload', '/usr/local/lib/python3.11/dist-packages', '/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages']})"
    },
    "456": {
      "cpu": "7.3",
      "cpu_average": "7",
      "mem": "0.3",
      "cmdline": "/usr/bin/python3 -Wignore:::numpy.core.getlimits -c from multiprocessing.forkserver import main; main(5, 7, ['sqlite3', 'numpy', 'cv2', 'peewee', 'zmq', 'ruamel.yaml', 'frigate.camera.maintainer'], **{'sys_path': ['/opt/frigate', '/usr/lib/python311.zip', '/usr/lib/python3.11', '/usr/lib/python3.11/lib-dynload', '/usr/local/lib/python3.11/dist-packages', '/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages']})"
    },
    "465": {
      "cpu": "0.0",
      "cpu_average": "0",
      "mem": "0.1",
      "cmdline": "/usr/lib/ffmpeg/7.0/bin/ffmpeg -init_hw_device vaapi -f lavfi -i testsrc2 -t 1 -vf format=nv12,hwupload -c h264_vaapi -f null -"
    },
    "735": {
      "cpu": "1.7",
      "cpu_average": "1",
      "mem": "0.3",
      "cmdline": "frigate.recording_manager                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               "
    },
    "748": {
      "cpu": "0.1",
      "cpu_average": "0",
      "mem": "0.3",
      "cmdline": "frigate.review_segment_manager                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          "
    },
    "758": {
      "cpu": "0.0",
      "cpu_average": "0",
      "mem": "0.4",
      "cmdline": "frigate.embeddings_manager                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              "
    },
    "790": {
      "cpu": "0.0",
      "cpu_average": "0",
      "mem": "0.8",
      "cmdline": "frigate.detector:ov0                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    "
    },
    "800": {
      "cpu": "0.0",
      "cpu_average": "0",
      "mem": "0.8",
      "cmdline": "frigate.detector:ov1                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    "
    },
    "812": {
      "cpu": "0.1",
      "cpu_average": "0",
      "mem": "0.4",
      "cmdline": "frigate.output                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          "
    },
    "839": {
      "cpu": "6.5",
      "cpu_average": "7",
      "mem": "0.4",
      "cmdline": "frigate.audio_manager                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   "
    },
    "850": {
      "cpu": "0.3",
      "cpu_average": "0",
      "mem": "0.3",
      "cmdline": "frigate.process:Front_Door                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              "
    },
    "919": {
      "cpu": "0.7",
      "cpu_average": "0",
      "mem": "0.1",
      "cmdline": "/usr/lib/ffmpeg/7.0/bin/ffmpeg -vn -threads 1 -hide_banner -loglevel warning -threads 2 -user_agent FFmpeg Frigate/0.17.1-416a9b7 -rtsp_transport tcp -timeout 10000000 -i rtsp://127.0.0.1:8554/Front_Door -threads 1 -f s16le -ar 16000 -ac 1 -y pipe:"
    },
    "920": {
      "cpu": "0.4",
      "cpu_average": "0",
      "mem": "0.3",
      "cmdline": "frigate.capture:Front_Door                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              "
    },
    "932": {
      "cpu": "2.1",
      "cpu_average": "1",
      "mem": "0.1",
      "cmdline": "/usr/lib/ffmpeg/7.0/bin/ffmpeg -hide_banner -v error -fflags nobuffer -flags low_delay -i https://10.105.90.8/flv?port=1935&app=bcs&stream=channel0_main.bcs&user=*&password=* -c copy -user_agent ffmpeg/go2rtc -rtsp_transport tcp -f rtsp rtsp://127.0.0.1:8554/0ec0a54a1ad7a89ac378b4bf6dabf6f2"
    },
    "964": {
      "cpu": "0.8",
      "cpu_average": "0",
      "mem": "0.1",
      "cmdline": "/usr/lib/ffmpeg/7.0/bin/ffmpeg -vn -threads 1 -hide_banner -loglevel warning -threads 2 -user_agent FFmpeg Frigate/0.17.1-416a9b7 -rtsp_transport tcp -timeout 10000000 -i rtsp://127.0.0.1:8554/Frontyard -threads 1 -f s16le -ar 16000 -ac 1 -y pipe:"
    },
    "978": {
      "cpu": "1.4",
      "cpu_average": "1",
      "mem": "0.1",
      "cmdline": "/usr/lib/ffmpeg/7.0/bin/ffmpeg -hide_banner -loglevel warning -threads 2 -hwaccel qsv -qsv_device /dev/dri/renderD128 -hwaccel_output_format qsv -c:v h264_qsv -bsf:v dump_extra -user_agent FFmpeg Frigate/0.17.1-416a9b7 -rtsp_transport tcp -timeout 10000000 -i rtsp://127.0.0.1:8554/Front_Door_sub -r 5 -vf vpp_qsv=framerate=5:w=640:h=480:format=nv12,hwdownload,format=nv12,format=yuv420p -threads 2 -f rawvideo -pix_fmt yuv420p pipe:"
    },
    "988": {
      "cpu": "5.5",
      "cpu_average": "5",
      "mem": "0.1",
      "cmdline": "/usr/lib/ffmpeg/7.0/bin/ffmpeg -hide_banner -loglevel warning -threads 2 -user_agent FFmpeg Frigate/0.17.1-416a9b7 -rtsp_transport tcp -timeout 10000000 -i rtsp://127.0.0.1:8554/Front_Door -f segment -segment_time 10 -segment_format mp4 -reset_timestamps 1 -strftime 1 -c:v copy -c:a aac /tmp/cache/Front_Door@%Y%m%d%H%M%S%z.mp4"
    },
    "992": {
      "cpu": "2.4",
      "cpu_average": "2",
      "mem": "0.1",
      "cmdline": "/usr/lib/ffmpeg/7.0/bin/ffmpeg -hide_banner -v error -fflags nobuffer -flags low_delay -i https://10.105.90.31/flv?port=1935&app=bcs&stream=channel0_main.bcs&user=*&password=* -c copy -user_agent ffmpeg/go2rtc -rtsp_transport tcp -f rtsp rtsp://127.0.0.1:8554/545acf3344b0166a17a0022320233fc5"
    },
    "1007": {
      "cpu": "1.7",
      "cpu_average": "1",
      "mem": "0.1",
      "cmdline": "/usr/lib/ffmpeg/7.0/bin/ffmpeg -vn -threads 1 -hide_banner -loglevel warning -threads 2 -user_agent FFmpeg Frigate/0.17.1-416a9b7 -rtsp_transport tcp -timeout 10000000 -i rtsp://127.0.0.1:8554/Northside -threads 1 -f s16le -ar 16000 -ac 1 -y pipe:"
    },
    "1025": {
      "cpu": "0.6",
      "cpu_average": "0",
      "mem": "0.1",
      "cmdline": "/usr/lib/ffmpeg/7.0/bin/ffmpeg -hide_banner -v error -fflags nobuffer -flags low_delay -i https://10.105.90.8/flv?port=1935&app=bcs&stream=channel0_sub.bcs&user=*&password=* -c copy -user_agent ffmpeg/go2rtc -rtsp_transport tcp -f rtsp rtsp://127.0.0.1:8554/7f4c8efaf1a7550d1cacf70edf236dac"
    },
    "1026": {
      "cpu": "0.3",
      "cpu_average": "1",
      "mem": "0.4",
      "cmdline": "frigate.process:Frontyard                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               "
    },
    "1076": {
      "cpu": "0.0",
      "cpu_average": "0",
      "mem": "0.0",
      "cmdline": "/usr/lib/ffmpeg/7.0/bin/ffmpeg -threads 1 -f rawvideo -pix_fmt yuv420p -video_size 640x480 -i pipe: -threads 1 -f mpegts -s 960x720 -codec:v mpeg1video -q 8 -bf 0 pipe:"
    },
    "1081": {
      "cpu": "0.0",
      "cpu_average": "0",
      "mem": "0.0",
      "cmdline": "/usr/lib/ffmpeg/7.0/bin/ffmpeg -threads 1 -f rawvideo -pix_fmt yuv420p -video_size 2560x1920 -i pipe: -threads 1 -f mpegts -s 960x720 -codec:v mpeg1video -q 8 -bf 0 pipe:"
    },
    "1086": {
      "cpu": "0.0",
      "cpu_average": "0",
      "mem": "0.0",
      "cmdline": "/usr/lib/ffmpeg/7.0/bin/ffmpeg -threads 1 -f rawvideo -pix_fmt yuv420p -video_size 2688x1520 -i pipe: -threads 1 -f mpegts -s 1273x720 -codec:v mpeg1video -q 8 -bf 0 pipe:"
    },
    "1091": {
      "cpu": "3.3",
      "cpu_average": "2",
      "mem": "0.6",
      "cmdline": "frigate.capture:Frontyard                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               "
    },
    "1092": {
      "cpu": "0.0",
      "cpu_average": "0",
      "mem": "0.1",
      "cmdline": "/usr/lib/ffmpeg/7.0/bin/ffmpeg -threads 1 -f rawvideo -pix_fmt yuv420p -video_size 1280x720 -i pipe: -threads 1 -f mpegts -s 1280x720 -codec:v mpeg1video -q 8 -bf 0 pipe:"
    },
    "1157": {
      "cpu": "15.6",
      "cpu_average": "13",
      "mem": "0.2",
      "cmdline": "/usr/lib/ffmpeg/7.0/bin/ffmpeg -hide_banner -loglevel warning -threads 2 -hwaccel qsv -qsv_device /dev/dri/renderD128 -hwaccel_output_format qsv -c:v h264_qsv -bsf:v dump_extra -user_agent FFmpeg Frigate/0.17.1-416a9b7 -rtsp_transport tcp -timeout 10000000 -i rtsp://127.0.0.1:8554/Frontyard -f segment -segment_time 10 -segment_format mp4 -reset_timestamps 1 -strftime 1 -c:v copy -c:a aac /tmp/cache/Frontyard@%Y%m%d%H%M%S%z.mp4 -r 5 -vf vpp_qsv=framerate=5:w=2560:h=1920:format=nv12,hwdownload,format=nv12,format=yuv420p -threads 2 -f rawvideo -pix_fmt yuv420p pipe:"
    },
    "1168": {
      "cpu": "0.1",
      "cpu_average": "0",
      "mem": "0.3",
      "cmdline": "frigate.process:Northside                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               "
    },
    "1234": {
      "cpu": "0.2",
      "cpu_average": "0",
      "mem": "0.3",
      "cmdline": "frigate.capture:Northside                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               "
    },
    "139554": {
      "cpu": "0.0",
      "cpu_average": "0",
      "mem": "0.0",
      "cmdline": "sleep 60"
    },
    "140939": {
      "cpu": "0.0",
      "cpu_average": "0",
      "mem": "0.0",
      "cmdline": "sleep 30s"
    },
    "144282": {
      "cpu": "0.0",
      "cpu_average": "0",
      "mem": "0.1",
      "cmdline": "/usr/lib/ffmpeg/7.0/bin/ffmpeg -hide_banner -loglevel warning -threads 2 -hwaccel qsv -qsv_device /dev/dri/renderD128 -hwaccel_output_format qsv -c:v h264_qsv -bsf:v dump_extra -user_agent FFmpeg Frigate/0.17.1-416a9b7 -rtsp_transport tcp -timeout 10000000 -i rtsp://127.0.0.1:8554/Northside -f segment -segment_time 10 -segment_format mp4 -reset_timestamps 1 -strftime 1 -c:v copy -c:a aac /tmp/cache/Northside@%Y%m%d%H%M%S%z.mp4 -r 5 -vf vpp_qsv=framerate=5:w=2688:h=1520:format=nv12,hwdownload,format=nv12,format=yuv420p -threads 2 -f rawvideo -pix_fmt yuv420p pipe:"
    }
  },
  "service": {
    "uptime": 914,
    "version": "0.17.1-416a9b7",
    "latest_version": "0.17.1",
    "storage": {
      "/media/frigate/recordings": {
        "total": 37996780.5,
        "used": 2281253.3,
        "free": 33808029.7,
        "mount_type": "ext4"
      },
      "/media/frigate/clips": {
        "total": 37996780.5,
        "used": 2281253.3,
        "free": 33808029.7,
        "mount_type": "ext4"
      },
      "/tmp/cache": {
        "total": 953.7,
        "used": 69.9,
        "free": 883.8,
        "mount_type": "tmpfs"
      },
      "/dev/shm": {
        "total": 396,
        "used": 150.7,
        "free": 245.3,
        "mount_type": "tmpfs",
        "available": 346,
        "camera_frame_size": 17.3,
        "shm_frame_count": 20,
        "min_shm": 396
      }
    },
    "temperatures": {

    },
    "last_updated": 1775228319
  },
  "processes": {
    "recording": {
      "pid": 735
    },
    "review_segment": {
      "pid": 748
    },
    "go2rtc": {
      "pid": 127
    },
    "embeddings": {
      "pid": 758
    },
    "audio_detector": {
      "pid": 839
    }
  }
}

Operating system

Debian

Install method

Docker Compose

docker-compose file or Docker CLI command

services:
  frigate:
    container_name: frigate
    privileged: true 
    restart: unless-stopped
    stop_grace_period: 30s 
    image: ghcr.io/blakeblackshear/frigate:stable
    shm_size: "396mb" 

    devices:
      - /dev/dri/renderD128:/dev/dri/renderD128

    volumes:
      - /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro
      - /mnt/savabeast/dockerFolders/frigateStorage:/media/frigate
      - /mnt/savabeast/dockerFolders/frigateStorage/CONFIG_FILE:/config
      - type: tmpfs # Optional: 1GB of memory, reduces SSD/SD Card wear
        target: /tmp/cache
        tmpfs:
          size: 1000000000
    ports:
      - "5000:5000" # Main web UI
      - "8971:8971"
      - "8554:8554" # RTSP feeds
      - "8555:8555/tcp" # WebRTC over tcp
      - "8555:8555/udp" # WebRTC over udp
      - "1935:1935" # RTMP feed
    environment:
      FRIGATE_RTMP_USERNAME: "*"
      FRIGATE_RTMP_PASSWORD: "*"

Object Detector

OpenVino

Screenshots of the Frigate UI's System metrics pages

Any other information that may be helpful

Logs show hwaccel is not working. My system was a qnap nas that I installed Ubuntu server on instead, it has an Intel Xeon W-1250 with integrated UHD Graphics P630. Afaik this is not old enough for the LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME=i965 variable to be set but I tried that and it caused the logs to be spammed with errors indicating it cannot record so I removed it. Note that after removing this line from the compose file, I stopped the container, deleted frigate.db, and started it again. I am still getting the LIBVA errors in the logs.

I had been receiving a warning stating shm size was too low. Before today, my three cameras were set to detect with a sub stream res of 640x480. The formula in the docs works out to be ~67mb and my shm size was 256mb. That should be plenty even with spikes but I had a warning telling me to bump to 264, then to 320, and last was 396. I have not seen another warning since updating to 396. Not sure if its relevant and I have no issues allocating that much but wanted to include.

Debug logs show that files/frames are being copied in under 0.2 seconds at the highest, often under 0.1.
I.E. Copied /media/frigate/recordings/2026-04-03/14/Front_Door/43.41.mp4 in 0.05061197280883789 seconds.
The AI on the docs page says that this indicates CPU usage is likely the limiting factor. HTOP shows my cpu usage floating from 7-15% at most so I really doubt that. Despite that, I added a second openvino detector at the recommendation of the AI which did not seem to do much.

The only thing I can think of that changed around the time this started happening was me starting a new container for another app but stopping it has negligible impact on resources and it did not stop these warning/errors.

[inkeep-ai-assistant[bot]]

Several issues are contributing to your problems:

1. Missing Detect Streams for Frontyard and Northside

Your Frontyard and Northside cameras only have a record role assigned—there's no detect role configured. (1) This means Frigate has no dedicated detect stream to process, which directly causes the "Too many unprocessed recording segments in cache" warnings. (2)

Add a detect stream for each camera. For example:

cameras:
  Frontyard:
    ffmpeg:
      inputs:
        - path: rtsp://127.0.0.1:8554/Frontyard
          input_args: preset-rtsp-restream
          roles:
            - audio
            - record
        - path: rtsp://127.0.0.1:8554/Frontyard_sub  # Add a sub stream for detect
          input_args: preset-rtsp-restream
          roles:
            - detect

(1)

You'll need to add corresponding sub-streams in your go2rtc config for Frontyard and Northside.

2. Northside Stream Connection Failures

The go2rtc logs show audio codec negotiation failures for Northside:

can't add track error="wrong media: audio, sendonly, PCMU/8000, G726/8000, MPEG4-GENERIC/16000"

This indicates the camera's audio format isn't compatible. The ffmpeg watchdog is repeatedly restarting because no frames are being received. You may need to configure go2rtc to handle this stream differently or disable audio for this camera.

3. Hardware Acceleration Warning

The startup warning "Did not detect hwaccel" suggests your GPU device may not be properly passed to the container. Verify that /dev/dri/renderD128 exists on your host and is accessible. You're using preset-intel-qsv-h264 but the ffmpeg logs show it's attempting to use QSV—ensure your Intel GPU drivers are properly installed on the host. (1)

4. Recording Segment Cache Issues

The warning "Too many unprocessed recording segments in cache" typically indicates the detect stream can't keep up. (2) Since your copy times are fast (under 0.2 seconds), this confirms the root cause is the missing detect streams rather than storage performance. (2)

📚 Sources:

1. Getting Started
2. Recordings Errors

---

Have another question? Just tag @inkeep.

[AssistMyHome]

I made the preset change about an hour after you posted and the Frigate logs have no warnings or errors since (yay). go2rtc logs have 4 warnings, they are all what we saw before.

can't add track error="wrong media: audio, sendonly, PCMU/8000, G726/8000, MPEG4-GENERIC/16000"

always followed by

github.com/AlexxIT/go2rtc/internal/streams/producer.go:170 > error="start from CONN state" url=rtsp://*:*@10.105.90.32/cam/realmonitor?channel=1&subtype=0

Once at startup, then 2 hours later, 30 minutes after that, and then about 5 minutes ago when I checked frigate again (the whole ui was non-responsive until I refreshed the page for some reason).

When I attempt to play back the footage from the period of time where this error occurs, i get this error and I have to refresh the page so i can scrub the timeline again.

[NickM-27]

what OS / browser is used for playback?

[AssistMyHome]

Linux Mint, Brave (shield is down)

Edit: tried it in firefox and it did not have the same hiccup. Played right thru that time period. Also note that this is only happening to one or two of the time periods this warning popped up. I'm not too sure if this rabbit is worth chasing. But i'm happy to help try more things if you want to. Otherwise i will post a summary of the steps to fix my issue and mark resolved.

[hawkeye217]

This PIPELINE_ERROR_DECODE message that Frigate displays is usually an indication that your Chromium-based browser itself is failing to decode an audio packet from your recording. This can be caused by a corrupted or damaged audio packet that came from your camera. Chromium-based browsers are more strict about decoding errors than other browsers.

For the best compatibility, make sure that AAC audio is coming from your camera. You could also try transcoding the audio to AAC with go2rtc (that may even be necessary if the AAC coming from your camera is corrupt in some way). Firefox is non-Chromium based, so that's likely why it works there.

[AssistMyHome]

Makes sense. I just switched the cameras audio to AAC so that should fix that. Thank you for all your help through this.

[AssistMyHome]

Summary of the resolution:

Hardware:
Intel W-1250 with UHD p630 integrated graphics

System/Software:
/dev/dri/renderD128 is present and accessible by Frigate.

I had the default i915 driver installed as comes with Ubuntu Jammy. To check your driver, use the following command

vainfo

This should return some info including a line similar to this. Note this previously said i915 instead of iHD.

vainfo: Driver version: Intel iHD driver for Intel(R) Gen Graphics - 25.2.4 ()

This driver is not capable of hwaccel.
https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/please-tell-me-how-to-find-and-install-the-correct-graphics-driver-for-this-system/57038/11

The "intel non free" driver is (in the same forum post above). This can be installed with this command

sudo apt install intel-media-va-driver-non-free

I then restarted my system.

Config update:
Adding the following line to my config under each camera (maybe it can be set globally idk)

ffmpeg:
  hwaccel_args: preset-intel-qsv-h264

I had to switch one camera to AAC audio as chromium browsers throw this error when trying to decode it during playback of whatever weird codec my camera was using.

Note:
The AI on the docs site pointed me to a CPU utilization issue and gave a "non-source-based" tip to use docker stats to check usage. I thought this was the issue for a while due to this showing >100% usage almost always but this command provides CPU stats where each core can use 100% usage. This means if docker stats shows 150% usage, one core is being used at 100% and a second core is being used at 50% (or 150% is spread across all cores). By no means a knock against Frigates AI helper, it warned me it was going beyond the bounds of its knowledge by mentioning that and I should've looked it up earlier on. Just a note for anyone following the same path as me.