# Plex transcoding stopped working?

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**Category:** Plex Media Server\
**Tags:** server-linux, downloads, ios\
**Created:** [August 25, 2025, 8:12pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-transcoding-stopped-working/930107 "2025-08-25T20:12:51Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 31, 2025, 10:49pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-transcoding-stopped-working/930107/13 "2025-08-31T22:49:56Z")

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> [@joepaiii](#):
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> 87bf6490b152] [eac3\_eae @ 0x7f4e637e3ac0] EAE timeout! EAE not running, or wrong folder? Could not read ‘/run/plex-temp/pms-a2444bc0-bb51-468d-8684-749d76ed3d56/EasyAudioEncoder/Convert to WAV (to 8ch or less)/hz2xpsvgt0awjxp0osr47irv\_822-0-41.wav’  
> Aug 31, 2025 17:21:34.001 [140195634764600] ERROR - [Req#1233/Transcode/hz2xpsvgt0awjxp0osr47irv/6b1d326a-25a9-4e4d-a522-87bf6490b152] [eac3\_eae @ 0x7f4e637e3ac0] error reading output: -5 (I/O error)  
> Aug 31, 2025 17:21:34.001 [140195609000760] ERROR - [Req#1236/Transcode/hz2xpsvgt0awjxp0osr47irv/6b1d326a-25a9-4e4d-a522-87bf6490b152] Error while decoding stream #0:1: I/O error  
> Aug 31, 2025 17:21:39.000 [140195613657912] ERROR - [Req#1239/Transcode/hz2xpsvgt0awjxp0osr47irv/6b1d326a-25a9-4e4d-a522-87bf6490b152] [eac3\_eae @ 0x7f4e637e3ac0] EAE timeout! EAE not running, or wrong folder? Could not read ‘/run/plex-temp/pms-a2444bc0-bb51-468d-8684-749d76ed3d56/EasyAudioEncoder/Convert to WAV (to 8ch or less)/hz2xpsvgt0awjxp0osr47irv\_822-0-42.wav’

It has nothing to do with the QSV. This is a Dolby EAE error.

Specifically, you have more directories to monitor than are currently allocated.

The procedure to remedy this, which you’ll now need to run after every DSM update, is:

> [@Synology FAQ - Questions, Answers, and How-To's](https://forums.plex.tv/t/490215/22):
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> 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…

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