# Plex transcoding stopped working?

**URL:** <https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-transcoding-stopped-working/930107>\
**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:** [September 1, 2025, 5:07am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-transcoding-stopped-working/930107/19 "2025-09-01T05:07:31Z")

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@joepaiii

I must have been looking at someone else’s logs.

You are using Docker on regular Linux ?

If so, Please accept my apologies.

The Synology instructions will not apply

```auto
sed -i 's/^s2s_watches_max=.*$//' /etc/synoinfo.conf
sed -i 's/^s2s_watches_max=.*$//' /etc.defaults/synoinfo.conf

```

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For regular Linux, on the Linux host (not in the container),  
It’s the same table increase but how regular linux does it instead of Synology proprietary

> [@Linux Tips](https://forums.plex.tv/t/linux-tips/276247/9):
>
> Increase the number of directories Linux can monitor (inotify) for PMS The default size of the Linux inotify table is 8192 directories (\*1). When PMS is configured to update automatically when media is added, with properly organized media, especially music, this table rapidly fills and exceeds the default allocation requiring you to increase it. The solution to this is straight forward. Increasing the table size is easy. The first step is to determine how many directories to alloca…

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