Conversion failed. The transcoder exited due to an error

I have plex running on an old gaming pc that has a 5th gen Ryzen cpu and rtx 2060 super graphics card. I am using Ethernet to connect my pc to the router which is 1gb. This PC is not used for anything else. Latest plex version is installed, I pay for plex pass and enabled hardware transcoding.

This only started happening today with a handful of movies. all my movies are 4k. the audio seems to be truehd 7.1 causing issues. issues happening with and without subtitles, This error happens on all my clients and even the local server. looked at the logs and this is the only thing that stood out to me but it doesn’t make sense

May 28, 2023 00:29:34.594 [4864] VERBOSE - [Req#1099f/Transcode] [FFMPEG] - MF_MT_SUBTYPE=MFAudioFormat_AAC
May 28, 2023 00:29:34.595 [4864] DEBUG - [Req#1099f/Transcode] Kingsman: The Golden Circle - audio.channels limitation applies: 8 > 6
May 28, 2023 00:29:34.595 [4864] DEBUG - [Req#1099f/Transcode] MDE: Cannot direct stream audio stream due to profile or setting limitations
May 28, 2023 00:29:34.596 [4864] DEBUG - [Req#1099f/Transcode] MDE: Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017): selected media 0 / 9743
May 28, 2023 00:29:34.596 [4864] DEBUG - [Req#1099f/Transcode] Streaming Resource: Reached Decision id=3455 codes=(General=1001,Direct play not available; Conversion OK. Direct Play=3000,App cannot direct play this item. Direct play is disabled. Transcode=1001,Direct play not available; Conversion OK.) media=(id=9743 part=(id=26808 decision=transcode container=mp4 protocol=dash streams=(Video=(id=103560 decision=copy width=3840 height=1608) Audio=(id=103561 decision=transcode bitrate=256 encoder=aac_mf channels=2 rate=48000))))

Why would direct stream be disabled? I am pretty sure my client (Xbox X) supports direct stream. I also tested this on my phone and same error

I have attached debug logs. any help is very appreciated thankd!! :slight_smile:
Plex Media Server Logs_2023-05-28_00-24-21.zip (2.6 MB)

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