Plex on ds423+ trying to transcode everything to flac and most of the time kills stream

[ChuckPa]

@tjmac2119

I originally copied my media server files from the mini pc I was using, and then had deleted the codec folder based on other posts with ideas, so I don’t know if that caused more of a problem

Did you do a proper DSM 7 “Import from another OS” ?

DSM 7 is unique in that we can’t just “Drop the files and change ownership”.

This is for any OS to DSM 7

Synology FAQ - Questions, Answers, and a few How-To's

FAQ 26 - Migrate from another OS → DSM 7 Migrating from another PMS installaton to Synology DSM 7 requires a little bit of up-front work. The basic procedure is: Prepare the existing installation for copying Create a “Plex” shared folder on DSM which will be the base share for importing. Create the folders “Plex/Library/Application Support” Copy the “Plex Media Server” folder and contents into “Application Support” Manually set permissions of the Plex share, and all files in the shared fo…