# EAC3 decoder not working

**URL:** <https://forums.plex.tv/t/eac3-decoder-not-working/760864>\
**Category:** Plex Media Server\
**Tags:** server-linux, server-docker\
**Created:** [November 28, 2021, 8:28pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/eac3-decoder-not-working/760864 "2021-11-28T20:28:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![ChuckPa](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/chuckpa/32/79710_2.png) [@ChuckPa](https://forums.plex.tv/u/ChuckPa)\
**Post date:** [May 11, 2022, 10:32pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/eac3-decoder-not-working/760864/44 "2022-05-11T22:32:47Z")

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@akreaxun

You’ve run out of notify slots.

```auto
May 11, 2022 21:38:45.496 [0x7f81e7eb4b38] DEBUG - [Notify] Now watching "/var/hda/files/Serien/Zou"
May 11, 2022 21:38:45.496 [0x7f81e7eb4b38] DEBUG - [Notify] Now watching "/var/hda/files/Serien/Zou/Season 1"
May 11, 2022 21:38:45.496 [0x7f81e7eb4b38] DEBUG - [Notify] Now watching "/var/hda/files/Serien/Star Trek TNG"
May 11, 2022 21:38:45.496 [0x7f81e7eb4b38] ERROR - [Notify] Failed to add watch for "/var/hda/files/Serien/Star Trek TNG/Staffel 4" (28: No space left on device)
May 11, 2022 21:38:45.497 [0x7f81e7eb4b38] ERROR - [Notify] Failed to add watch for "/var/hda/files/Serien/Star Trek TNG/Staffel 6" (28: No space left on device)
May 11, 2022 21:38:45.497 [0x7f81e7eb4b38] ERROR - [Notify] Failed to add watch for "/var/hda/files/Serien/Star Trek TNG/Staffel 2" (28: No space left on device)
May 11, 2022 21:38:45.498 [0x7f81e7eb4b38] ERROR - [Notify] Failed to add watch for "/var/hda/files/Serien/Star Trek TNG/Staffel 7" (28: No space left on device)
May 11, 2022 21:38:45.498 [0x7f81e7eb4b38] ERROR - [Notify] Failed to add watch for "/var/hda/files/Serien/Star Trek TNG/Staffel 1" (28: No space left on device)
May 11, 2022 21:38:45.499 [0x7f81e7eb4b38] ERROR - [Notify] Failed to add watch for "/var/hda/files/Serien/Star Trek TNG/Staffel 3" (28: No space left on device)
May 11, 2022 21:38:45.499 [0x7f81e7eb4b38] ERROR - [Notify] Failed to add watch for "/var/hda/files/Serien/Star Trek TNG/Staffel 5" (28: No space left on device)
May 11, 2022 21:38:45.518 [0x7f81e957eb38] DEBUG - Request: [127.0.0.1:34824 (Loopback)] GET /:/plugins/com.plexapp.system/resourceHashes (8 live) GZIP Signed-in Token (akreaxun)
May 11, 2022 21:38:45.518 [0x7f81e957eb38] DEBUG - [com.plexapp.system] Sending command over HTTP (GET): /:/plugins/com.plexapp.system/resourceHashes
May 11, 2022 21:38:45.518 [0x7f81e957eb38] DEBUG - HTTP requesting GET http://127.0.0.1:40767/:/plugins/com.plexapp.system/resourceHashes
May 11, 2022 21:38:45.520 [0x7f81e7f3ab38] DEBUG - [HttpClient] HTTP/1.1 (0.0s) 404 response from GET http://127.0.0.1:40767/:/plugins/com.plexapp.system/resourceHash

```

The transcoder needs 2 to run EAE.

> [@Linux Tips](https://forums.plex.tv/t/linux-tips/276247/9):
>
> Increase the number of directories Linux can monitor (inotify) for PMS The default size of the Linux inotify table is 8192 directories (\*1). When PMS is configured to update automatically when media is added, with properly organized media, especially music, this table rapidly fills and exceeds the default allocation requiring you to increase it. The solution to this is straight forward. Increasing the table size is easy. The first step is to determine how many directories to alloca…

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