# Indirect playing does not work for SOME title **URL:** \ **Category:** Remote Access\ **Tags:** server-synology\ **Created:** [July 5, 2021, 3:17pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/indirect-playing-does-not-work-for-some-title/726862 "2021-07-05T15:17:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![klein95](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ed655f/32.png) [@klein95](https://forums.plex.tv/u/klein95)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2021, 3:17pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/indirect-playing-does-not-work-for-some-title/726862/1 "2021-07-05T15:17:05Z")
![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/0/7/07b932f61ca80fb1d03ed0ae4333f80cfa3fec7e.jpeg) Why won’t some files play when I am not connected to my network and others play fine. Thanks for the help ---
**Author:** ![klein95](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ed655f/32.png) [@klein95](https://forums.plex.tv/u/klein95)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2021, 1:36am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/indirect-playing-does-not-work-for-some-title/726862/6 "2021-07-06T01:36:10Z")
[Plex Media Server Logs\_2021-07-05\_20-25-26.zip](https://forums.plex.tv/uploads/short-url/tR3wrnKxDzLcDd7rI84T9vpd59w.zip) (7.5 MB) [plex.txt](https://forums.plex.tv/uploads/short-url/yWuyFU367pdIK2qrBBfFoNjZyll.txt) (7.0 KB) sorry about that. I hope that’s what you want. ---
**Author:** ![klein95](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ed655f/32.png) [@klein95](https://forums.plex.tv/u/klein95)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2021, 1:51am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/indirect-playing-does-not-work-for-some-title/726862/8 "2021-07-06T01:51:10Z")
should I play the file again? ---
**Author:** ![klein95](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ed655f/32.png) [@klein95](https://forums.plex.tv/u/klein95)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2021, 1:58am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/indirect-playing-does-not-work-for-some-title/726862/10 "2021-07-06T01:58:37Z")
[Plex Media Server Logs\_2021-07-05\_20-57-36.zip](https://forums.plex.tv/uploads/short-url/1PeFfMpfWDSFa5n3iwDgvdfsy32.zip) (6.4 MB) ---
**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:** [July 6, 2021, 2:06am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/indirect-playing-does-not-work-for-some-title/726862/11 "2021-07-06T02:06:23Z")
Thanks. The table is overflowing (not a big deal). Linux default is 8192 directories. Well organized media easily exceeds that. This FAQ shows how to fix it. 1. Set it up (get the values) 2. Re-run it whenever you have trouble with the trancoder Easy Access Encoder or PMS not automatically detecting media. > [@Synology FAQ - Questions, Answers, and How-To's](https://forums.plex.tv/t/topic/490215/22): > > FAQ 16: Increase the number of folders Plex can monitor Applicable to all supported versions of DSM. When the Linux ‘inotify’ table fills up, this will cause when Plex to stop automatically detecting new media you add to the server. It will also manifest when there are transcoder problems with Dolby audio codecs. Linux has a default table size which is static. We can increase this at will. On some versions it’s 8192. On newer kernels, the default is 65536 folders. This is easy to incr… ---
**Author:** ![klein95](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ed655f/32.png) [@klein95](https://forums.plex.tv/u/klein95)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2021, 2:07am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/indirect-playing-does-not-work-for-some-title/726862/12 "2021-07-06T02:07:41Z")
thank you very much! I will give it a shot. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/2/a/2acb9765406f63293d357b4ec509ec39aa28f2ad.png) [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2021, 2:08am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/indirect-playing-does-not-work-for-some-title/726862/13 "2021-10-04T02:08:36Z")
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