What is "dynamicmedialinkserver" and where does it suddenly come from?

[Danny51]

I wanted to render a video in photoshop, and after opening the Render Video window my mac suddenly started launching an app called dynamicmedialinkserver that I have never seen before, and it got stuck on launchmode and since I didn't know what it was I just force quit it. Then I proceeded trying to render my video and got an error message. I figured out that these 2 things are related but I don't really understand what's happening since that app looks entirely unfamiliar to me.

I restarted photoshop and tried rendering the video again, this time without closing the app that poped up and it worked...

[Aleke]

Hi @Danny51!

Just a heads-up, dynamiclinkmediaserver is part of the video support for several Adobe apps, so it's completely normal to see it running.

Thanks so much! 😊

Alek

[Trevor.Dennis]

It sounds like it might be to do with Media Encoder.  Does Photoshop use Media Encoder to render video?