Hi all, PMS Version 1.20.4.3517 OS: Linux raspberrypi 5.4.51-v7+ Brand new PMS install. I’m getting “Conversion failed. The transcoder exited due to an error” on every single file. I’ve verified permissions for the ~/Library branch as well as for the transcoder. What logs to y’all need, and w…

For the benefit of the community, this turned out to be my fault. The setup: Since I’m running PMS on a raspberry pi, I have a very limited / partition. To get around this, I remapped the ~Library to an external drive. In the root partition: /var/lib/plexmediaserver has a symbolic link to the L…

Conversion failed. The transcoder exited due to an error

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ChuckPa November 12, 2020, 8:37pm 2

Going to need logs which capture it happening.

Check your PM

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Conversion failed. The transcoder exited due to an error

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