Hello, I just built Plex using the official Plex Docker repo… and am having issues getting Plex to begin transcoding (don’t even get to a potential ‘access denied’ issue with /transcoder folder… which I tested to be writable from within container). From any device I’ve tried… clicking ‘Play’ button just gives me the web player and a spinning circle. Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated!
FYI - Direct/original playback is working from LAN browsers. Transcoding does not… just verified /transcoder folder is populating with /Transcoder/Sessions folders as soon as I press play for a transcoded playback session… no contents are being created in the Sessions folder though.
I have a similar issue, everything works fine but when I select “Convert Automatically” in any media, it plays for 30 sec and then stops.
Ok… figured it out:
PMS needs the ability to execute contents of the /config folder (like the codecs)… I was using Docker to mount a host volume that did not have ‘exec’ enabled (in /etc/fstab)… Apparently, it is important where ‘exec’ sits when mounting a volume… I had this (/D-Drive is where I was pointing /config to for Plex) in my /etc/fstab:
/dev/sdb /D-Drive ext3 rw,suid,dev,exec,auto,user,async 0 0
Changed to this:
/dev/sdb /D-Drive ext3 rw,suid,dev,auto,user,async,exec 0 0
And rebooted.
Afterwards, I ran: sudo chmod 777 -R /D-Drive/plex/config/
… which recursively gives all the contents of that folder permissions to be executed (like the codecs needed to transcode videos)… without doing anything else… transcoding started working immediately. Hope this helps others!
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