diff --git a/server/src/repositories/media.repository.ts b/server/src/repositories/media.repository.ts
index 5f8449e692..07241c721d 100644
--- a/server/src/repositories/media.repository.ts
+++ b/server/src/repositories/media.repository.ts
@@ -3,10 +3,9 @@ import { ExifDateTime, exiftool, WriteTags } from 'exiftool-vendored';
 import ffmpeg, { FfprobeData, FfprobeStream } from 'fluent-ffmpeg';
 import _ from 'lodash';
 import { Duration } from 'luxon';
-import { execFile as execFileCb } from 'node:child_process';
+import { spawn } from 'node:child_process';
 import fs from 'node:fs/promises';
 import { Writable } from 'node:stream';
-import { promisify } from 'node:util';
 import sharp from 'sharp';
 import { ORIENTATION_TO_SHARP_ROTATION } from 'src/constants';
 import { Exif } from 'src/database';
@@ -44,8 +43,6 @@ const probe = (input: string, options: string[]): Promise<FfprobeData> =>
     ffmpeg.ffprobe(input, options, (error, data) => (error ? reject(error) : resolve(data))),
   );
 
-const execFile = promisify(execFileCb);
-
 sharp.concurrency(0);
 sharp.cache({ files: 0 });
 
@@ -291,33 +288,37 @@ export class MediaRepository {
    * Needed for accurate segments, especially when remuxing, seeking and/or VFR is involved.
    * Scanning packets for keyframes in JS is much faster than -skip_frame nokey since it avoids decoding the video.
    */
-  async probePackets(input: string, streamIndex: number): Promise<VideoPacketInfo | null> {
-    const { stdout } = await execFile('ffprobe', [
-      '-v',
-      'error',
-      '-select_streams',
-      String(streamIndex),
-      '-show_entries',
-      'packet=pts,duration,flags',
-      '-of',
-      'csv=p=0',
-      input,
-    ]);
+  probePackets(input: string, streamIndex: number): Promise<VideoPacketInfo | null> {
+    const ffprobe = spawn(
+      'ffprobe',
+      [
+        '-v',
+        'error',
+        '-select_streams',
+        String(streamIndex),
+        '-show_entries',
+        'packet=pts,duration,flags',
+        '-of',
+        'csv=p=0',
+        input,
+      ],
+      { stdio: ['ignore', 'pipe', 'pipe'] },
+    );
 
     let totalDuration = 0;
     const keyframePts: number[] = [];
     const keyframeAccDuration: number[] = [];
     const keyframeOwnDuration: number[] = [];
     const postDiscard: { pts: number; duration: number }[] = [];
-    for (const line of stdout.split('\n')) {
+    const parseLine = (line: string) => {
       if (!line) {
-        continue;
+        return;
       }
       const [ptsStr, durationStr, flags] = line.split(',');
       const pts = Number.parseInt(ptsStr);
       const duration = Number.parseInt(durationStr);
-      if (Number.isNaN(pts) || Number.isNaN(duration)) {
-        continue;
+      if (Number.isNaN(pts) || Number.isNaN(duration) || !flags) {
+        return;
       }
       // Discarded packets don't contribute to packet count, but still contribute to video duration
       totalDuration += duration;
@@ -332,20 +333,43 @@ export class MediaRepository {
         // Non-keyframes are accounted for in totalDuration.
         keyframeOwnDuration.push(duration);
       }
-    }
-
-    if (postDiscard.length === 0) {
-      return null;
-    }
-
-    return {
-      totalDuration,
-      packetCount: postDiscard.length,
-      outputFrames: this.cfrOutputFrames(postDiscard, postDiscard.length / totalDuration),
-      keyframePts,
-      keyframeAccDuration,
-      keyframeOwnDuration,
     };
+
+    let stderr = '';
+    let remainder = '';
+    ffprobe.stderr.setEncoding('utf8');
+    ffprobe.stderr.on('data', (chunk: string) => (stderr += chunk));
+    ffprobe.stdout.setEncoding('utf8');
+    ffprobe.stdout.on('data', (chunk: string) => {
+      const lines = chunk.split('\n');
+      lines[0] = remainder + lines[0];
+      remainder = lines.pop() as string;
+      for (const line of lines) {
+        parseLine(line);
+      }
+    });
+
+    return new Promise<VideoPacketInfo | null>((resolve, reject) => {
+      ffprobe.on('error', reject);
+      ffprobe.on('close', (code) => {
+        if (code !== 0) {
+          return reject(new Error(`ffprobe exited with code ${code}: ${stderr.trim()}`));
+        }
+        parseLine(remainder);
+        if (postDiscard.length === 0) {
+          return resolve(null);
+        }
+
+        resolve({
+          totalDuration,
+          packetCount: postDiscard.length,
+          outputFrames: this.cfrOutputFrames(postDiscard, postDiscard.length / totalDuration),
+          keyframePts,
+          keyframeAccDuration,
+          keyframeOwnDuration,
+        });
+      });
+    });
   }
 
   transcode(input: string, output: string | Writable, options: TranscodeCommand): Promise<void> {