Hi everyone, I’ve done the usual searching and I’ve tried a few things but I’m not sure how to proceed.
I have a secondary hard drive /dev/sda1 (EXT4) and when I try to copy CERTAIN files FROM it, I get a dialog box with “Error Splicing File - Input/Output Error” and it asks if I want to skip it or retry. Retry never works. I’ve tried different destination drives.
Relevant Event
I stream on Twitch (I’m one of the few people I know who runs OBS on Manjaro) and I record each of my streams to this drive. Last night, an OBS dialog popped up and told me the drive was full. After stream I deleted a few older video files but I noticed the free space on the drive still said zero.
I deleted a few more files and now, the drive shows 62GB free (its a 1TB drive).
I started copying all of the files off to another drive but I started getting the “Error Splicing File” error on what seems to be random files. A 15GB file will copy fine but a 11GB file will have the error. Sometimes, even a small file will have the error. I don’t get it.
ALSO (and this could be relevant) VLC will no longer play ANY video files. It opens and then immediately closes. BUT I CAN play all of the videos files in another video program, like MPV Media Player, VidCutter, etc.
Even more confusing is ALL of the “Error Splicing File” videos DO PLAY ALL THE WAY THROUGH in these other video programs.
I know that OBS uses VLC to perform some tasks, like saving the stream to a .mov file. Is there some invisible, corrupted VLC temp file somewhere that happened when the drive ran out of space?
Anyway, I did the following:
# umount /dev/sda1
# fsck -f /dev/sda1
fsck from util-linux 2.38.1
e2fsck 1.46.5 (30-Dec-2021)
Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes
Pass 2: Checking directory structure
Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity
Pass 4: Checking reference counts
Pass 5: Checking group summary information
data2: 1738753/61054976 files (1.1% non-contiguous), 225176133/244190208 blocks
But that didn’t fix any of the “Error Splicing File” files.
Any ideas? What’s wrong with VLC?
Thanks