diff --git a/app/services/waveform_service.rb b/app/services/waveform_service.rb
index 87bf904b5d..219c309de2 100644
--- a/app/services/waveform_service.rb
+++ b/app/services/waveform_service.rb
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ def get_normalized_peaks(uri)
   def get_wave_io(uri)
     headers = "-headers $'Referer: #{Rails.application.routes.url_helpers.root_url}\r\n'" if uri.starts_with? "http"
     normalized_uri = uri.starts_with?("file") ? Addressable::URI.unencode(uri) : uri
-    timeout = 3600000000 # Must be in microseconds. Current value = 1 hour.
+    timeout = 60000000 # Must be in microseconds. Current value = 1 minute.
     cmd = "#{Settings.ffmpeg.path} #{headers} -rw_timeout #{timeout} -i '#{normalized_uri}' -f wav -ar 44100 - 2> /dev/null"
     IO.popen(cmd)
   end
diff --git a/spec/services/waveform_service_spec.rb b/spec/services/waveform_service_spec.rb
index 4c60308dc4..09ec6a1a5f 100644
--- a/spec/services/waveform_service_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/services/waveform_service_spec.rb
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@
 
     context "http file" do
       let(:uri) { "http://domain/to/video.mp4" }
-      let(:cmd) {"#{Settings.ffmpeg.path} -headers $'Referer: http://test.host/\r\n' -rw_timeout 3600000000 -i '#{uri}' -f wav -ar 44100 - 2> /dev/null"}
+      let(:cmd) {"#{Settings.ffmpeg.path} -headers $'Referer: http://test.host/\r\n' -rw_timeout 60000000 -i '#{uri}' -f wav -ar 44100 - 2> /dev/null"}
 
       it "should call ffmpeg with headers" do
         service.send(:get_wave_io, uri)
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@
 
     context "local file" do
       let(:uri) { "file:///path/to/video.mp4" }
-      let(:cmd) {"#{Settings.ffmpeg.path}  -rw_timeout 3600000000 -i '#{uri}' -f wav -ar 44100 - 2> /dev/null"}
+      let(:cmd) {"#{Settings.ffmpeg.path}  -rw_timeout 60000000 -i '#{uri}' -f wav -ar 44100 - 2> /dev/null"}
 
       it "should call ffmpeg without headers" do
         service.send(:get_wave_io, uri)
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@
       context 'with spaces in filename' do
         let(:uri) { 'file:///path/to/special%20video%20file.mp4' }
         let(:unencoded_uri) { 'file:///path/to/special video file.mp4' }
-        let(:cmd) {"#{Settings.ffmpeg.path}  -rw_timeout 3600000000 -i '#{unencoded_uri}' -f wav -ar 44100 - 2> /dev/null"}
+        let(:cmd) {"#{Settings.ffmpeg.path}  -rw_timeout 60000000 -i '#{unencoded_uri}' -f wav -ar 44100 - 2> /dev/null"}
 
         it "should call ffmpeg without url encoding" do
           service.send(:get_wave_io, uri)