# EAC3 Transcodes completely broken. "EAE timeout! EAE not running, or wrong folder?"

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**Category:** Plex Media Server\
**Tags:** server-linux\
**Created:** [September 2, 2023, 8:36pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/eac3-transcodes-completely-broken-eae-timeout-eae-not-running-or-wrong-folder/852352 "2023-09-02T20:36:22Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 2, 2023, 9:41pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/eac3-transcodes-completely-broken-eae-timeout-eae-not-running-or-wrong-folder/852352/2 "2023-09-02T21:41:59Z")

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Sep 02, 2023 16:28:56.000 [140025930193720] ERROR - [Req#174/Transcode/fsa8d3qpsyq6b92ik982zeny/be37a85b-d36a-4f0a-bc2c-161bbccd7067] [eac3_eae @ 0x7fdf60759a40] EAE timeout! EAE not running, or wrong folder? Could not read ‘/tmp/pms-eb140b00-078d-4658-86d6-c954e3829cb1/EasyAudioEncoder/Convert to WAV (to 8ch or less)/fsa8d3qpsyq6b92ik982zeny_339-0-0.wav’

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commonly ALSO occurs when you run out of Notify slots.  
(The transcoder EAE needs 2 slots)

If the table is full, then EAE will fail.

Easy check for this:

1. DEBUG loggging on. (SAVE if changes)
2. Restart PMS
3. Give it 3-4 minutes to fully come up and stabilize (add all folders)
4. Download logs
5. Open “Plex Media Server.log”
6. Search for “No space left on device” (full table)

If this is the case, the solution is this procedure

> [@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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