Hi! So there is this annoying error while we try to play a movie with direct playing, tried with multiple clients ( PS5, LG OLED, SONY Android, iOS…) Only my windows client is able to play the movie and nothing else and every time it shows “playback error - there is not enough space on the disk to …

Direct play only works if the client can play the different tracks as-is. There’s no „forcing“ direct play if the client cannot play the tracks or the combination of tracks.

Okay, there is no forced my fault… but the fact is its not working and i cant believe only windows can play this movie, if i play directly from file all of the devices are able to play without any problem… but this is not how i want to watch the movies that’s why i paid for plex and maintain my serv…

[image] bocinet: i dont think this only not works for me Take a look at the file encoding, odds are its format does not match other direct stream files. The Windows client has more features that most of the other clients which is why it can play it directly while the others cannot.

I did a fresh new install to a Windows server PMS (currently i use linux PMS) and the movies that didn’t work before now work, regardless of client… interesting

That would imply that you changed a setting to something non-standard and broke Plex. When you did a fresh install you reset that setting.

Thank you! Looks like these playback issues only comes with the TrueHD audio based movies…

Direct Play requires the native operating system to support playing the codecs. If you are using a third party app on the Android-based devices you have, those may work because they include their own decoders. Plex relies on the native support of the device. If it can’t natively support each part o…

I'm tired of this... Forced direct playing but transcode error appears

Plex Media Server

OttoKerner January 1, 2024, 5:58pm 7

A few things to check: TrueHD audio transcoding BUG = error not enough space - #2 by OttoKerner

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I'm tired of this... Forced direct playing but transcode error appears

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