Conversion failed. The transcoder crashed or failed to start up.

@“micaiah&charlotte” said:
hmmmm, ok. I will do that. It’s linked to /tmp/ which is ram. Would permissions bar plex from running there?

Well permissions stopped it from creating the transcode directory area here
/transcode/Transcode/Sessions"

It also stopped it establishing how much space is available on the drive the /transcode is on

@“micaiah&charlotte” said:
I did a few things and the only fix was to chmod the transcode folder to 777. Are there any other things you recommend?

Thanks!

The /transcode directory needs to have full read / write permissions to the plex account that Plex Media Server runs in

The EasyAudioEncoder program is downloaded into /tmp and that must have execute permissions
This is used for DTS and TrueHD

The EasyAudioEncoder temp transcode files would be here
/tmp/pms-93271008-22da-408b-8e85-b376b86fb052/EasyAudioEncoder
and this needs to be fully accessible

The codecs are downloaded into here
/config/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/Codecs/b077134-1269-linux-ubuntu-x86_64/ and there needs to execute permissions as well as read and write