# Plex on PS4 keeps getting disaster playback error, please help!

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**Category:** Plex Players\
**Tags:** playstation\
**Created:** [June 30, 2020, 3:27am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-on-ps4-keeps-getting-disaster-playback-error-please-help/608882 "2020-06-30T03:27:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![josh\_quesnel29\_hotmail\_com](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e47c2d/32.png) [@josh\_quesnel29\_hotmail\_com](https://forums.plex.tv/u/josh_quesnel29_hotmail_com)\
**Post date:** [June 30, 2020, 3:27am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-on-ps4-keeps-getting-disaster-playback-error-please-help/608882/1 "2020-06-30T03:27:01Z")

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I try to play any video on my ps4 using plex and it always gives me diaster error message, please help anyone!!

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**Author:** ![josh\_quesnel29\_hotmail\_com](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e47c2d/32.png) [@josh\_quesnel29\_hotmail\_com](https://forums.plex.tv/u/josh_quesnel29_hotmail_com)\
**Post date:** [June 30, 2020, 3:29am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-on-ps4-keeps-getting-disaster-playback-error-please-help/608882/2 "2020-06-30T03:29:57Z")

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**Author:** ![primetime43](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/primetime43/32/181572_2.png) [@primetime43](https://forums.plex.tv/u/primetime43)\
**Post date:** [July 9, 2020, 4:00am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-on-ps4-keeps-getting-disaster-playback-error-please-help/608882/3 "2020-07-09T04:00:12Z")

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[https://forums.plex.tv/t/error-code-268434672-disaster/465936/15](https://forums.plex.tv/t/error-code-268434672-disaster/465936/15)

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**Author:** ![Namdor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Namdor](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Namdor)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2020, 3:18pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-on-ps4-keeps-getting-disaster-playback-error-please-help/608882/4 "2020-09-07T15:18:33Z")

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I had this occur and I was able to fix this by going to task manager on my computer and closing all of the plex related tasks and going back to my PS4 and hitting play. There were multiple instances of python script running that was eating 100% of my CPU. Once I closed all of those multiple instances I was able to play shows/movies on my PS4 again.

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/2/a/2acb9765406f63293d357b4ec509ec39aa28f2ad.png) [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2020, 3:18pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-on-ps4-keeps-getting-disaster-playback-error-please-help/608882/5 "2020-12-06T15:18:35Z")

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