# "Conversion failed. The transcoder failed to start up." Error

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**Category:** Plex Players\
**Tags:** plex-web\
**Created:** [April 12, 2025, 3:26am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/conversion-failed-the-transcoder-failed-to-start-up-error/912880 "2025-04-12T03:26:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![Vito1010](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/e19adc/32.png) [@Vito1010](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Vito1010)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2025, 3:26am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/conversion-failed-the-transcoder-failed-to-start-up-error/912880/1 "2025-04-12T03:26:18Z")

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Server Version#: 1.41.6.9685  
Player Version#: 4.145.1

When I try to play my Bollywood movies, if the .srt file does not have “.en.srt” I get this error:  
Conversion failed. The transcoder failed to start up

This is recent as it always worked before.  
Any help or solution. I don’t like “.” in my file names

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/2/a/2acb9765406f63293d357b4ec509ec39aa28f2ad.png) [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2025, 3:27am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/conversion-failed-the-transcoder-failed-to-start-up-error/912880/2 "2025-07-11T03:27:11Z")

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