It seems in some cases, when ffmpeg times out, the harvester will attempt to retry the jobs, but eventually get stuck on the :new status and not progress past the extraction phase
Error output from an example job:
{"error":"\nExternal Program: status=;killed=true;pid=19973;time_out_sec=60.0;time_taken_sec=61.27372472197749;timed_out=true;exceptions=[];command=ffmpeg -hide_banner -loglevel repeat+verbose -nostdin -i \"/data/harvester_to_do/harvest_12/Toorale-National-Park-Dry-B_323/267/20210105_-30.2647+145.3586/data\" -codec copy -f null -\n\tStandard output: \n\tStandard Error: \n\n\nExternal Program: status=;killed=true;pid=23317;time_out_sec=60.0;time_taken_sec=61.27367147500627;timed_out=true;exceptions=[];command=ffmpeg -hide_banner -loglevel repeat+verbose -nostdin -i \"/data/harvester_to_do/harvest_12/Toorale-National-Park-Dry-B_323/267/20210105_-30.2647+145.3586/data\" -codec copy -f null -\n\tStandard output: \n\tStandard Error: \n\n\nExternal Program: status=;killed=true;pid=22938;time_out_sec=60.0;time_taken_sec=61.28113416500855;timed_out=true;exceptions=[];command=ffmpeg -hide_banner -loglevel repeat+verbose -nostdin -i \"/data/harvester_to_do/harvest_12/Toorale-National-Park-Dry-B_323/267/20210105_-30.2647+145.3586/data\" -codec copy -f null -\n\tStandard output: \n\tStandard Error: \n\n\nExternal Program: status=;killed=true;pid=22115;time_out_sec=60.0;time_taken_sec=61.28208795504179;timed_out=true;exceptions=[];command=ffmpeg -hide_banner -loglevel repeat+verbose -nostdin -i \"/data/harvester_to_do/harvest_12/Toorale-National-Park-Dry-B_323/267/20210105_-30.2647+145.3586/data\" -codec copy -f null -\n\tStandard output: \n\tStandard Error: \n\n\nExternal Program: status=;killed=true;pid=19794;time_out_sec=60.0;time_taken_sec=61.26551218307577;timed_out=true;exceptions=[];command=ffmpeg -hide_banner -loglevel repeat+verbose -nostdin -i \"/data/harvester_to_do/harvest_12/Toorale-National-Park-Dry-B_323/267/20210105_-30.2647+145.3586/data\" -codec copy -f null -\n\tStandard output: \n\tStandard Error: \n\n\nExternal Program: status=;killed=true;pid=22986;time_out_sec=60.0;time_taken_sec=61.269231615937315;timed_out=true;exceptions=[];command=ffmpeg -hide_banner -loglevel repeat+verbose -nostdin -i \"/data/harvester_to_do/harvest_12/Toorale-National-Park-Dry-B_323/267/20210105_-30.2647+145.3586/data\" -codec copy -f null -\n\tStandard output: \n\tStandard Error: \n\n\nExternal Program: status=;killed=true;pid=24335;time_out_sec=60.0;time_taken_sec=61.256726833991706;timed_out=true;exceptions=[];command=ffmpeg -hide_banner -loglevel repeat+verbose -nostdin -i \"/data/harvester_to_do/harvest_12/Toorale-National-Park-Dry-B_323/267/20210105_-30.2647+145.3586/data\" -codec copy -f null -\n\tStandard output: \n\tStandard Error: \n\n\nExternal Program: status=;killed=true;pid=24472;time_out_sec=60.0;time_taken_sec=61.26816164003685;timed_out=true;exceptions=[];command=ffmpeg -hide_banner -loglevel repeat+verbose -nostdin -i \"/data/harvester_to_do/harvest_12/Toorale-National-Park-Dry-B_323/267/20210105_-30.2647+145.3586/data\" -codec copy -f null -\n\tStandard output: \n\tStandard Error: \n\n\nExternal Program: status=;killed=true;pid=25891;time_out_sec=60.0;time_taken_sec=61.26841467095073;timed_out=true;exceptions=[];command=ffmpeg -hide_banner -loglevel repeat+verbose -nostdin -i \"/data/harvester_to_do/harvest_12/Toorale-National-Park-Dry-B_323/267/20210105_-30.2647+145.3586/data\" -codec copy -f null -\n\tStandard output: \n\tStandard Error: \n\n\nExternal Program: status=;killed=true;pid=22482;time_out_sec=60.0;time_taken_sec=61.26929898210801;timed_out=true;exceptions=[];command=ffmpeg -hide_banner -loglevel repeat+verbose -nostdin -i \"/data/harvester_to_do/harvest_12/Toorale-National-Park-Dry-B_323/267/20210105_-30.2647+145.3586/data\" -codec copy -f null -\n\tStandard output: \n\tStandard Error: \n\n\nExternal Program: 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It seems in some cases, when ffmpeg times out, the harvester will attempt to retry the jobs, but eventually get stuck on the :new status and not progress past the extraction phase
Error output from an example job:
Harvest item id: 879076