[BUG]: "Transcode missing" job won't catch videos, where only audio codec is undesired, because there are 0 Bytes transcodes from the previous version about immich

[mertalev]

The missing button uses the database - it doesn't check the files themselves. If a video doesn't get queued, it means the asset has a non-null value for encodedVideoPath. This field gets set at the very end after transcoding is complete, meaning it only gets set if there was no error.

Since the dashboard doesn't refresh that often, it can also be that it does get queued, but is skipped based on the transcode policy.

[mertalev]

Ah, but we don't handle FFmpeg failures very well. If it ran and deleted a previously existing transcode and then threw an error, the result would be a 0 byte file that wouldn't get queued because it already had encodedVideoPath populated. Does that sound like this might be what happened?

[Hely0n]

Yes I would say, that's exactly the case