Server Version#: 1.41.4.9463 Player Version#: 4.143.0 After upgrading my PMS to the latest version available for my DS920+ (running DSM 7.2.2-72806 Update 3), transcoding fails. As far as I can tell from the logs, the h264 codec is missing and upon download, the Plex webserver returns a 429: Feb…

Confirmation for this working on Ubuntu or, in my case, running Plex as an LXC container on Proxmox. Tried to write down what I did as a workaround: Go to your proxmox webinterface Click on your node > Shell pct enter <id of your plex container> Enter the LXC container cd /var/lib/plexmediaserver…

Still broken on Plex HTPC (Flatpak latest, 1.70.1.303-5bbf114f). Using the same “problematic”(?) hashed directory ~/.var/app/tv.plex.PlexHTPC/data/plex/Plex Media Server/Codecs/e613bce-97f23d579c1001d8e9cc0d2e-ubuntu-x86_64/, missing libhevc_decoder.so and libh264_decoder.so. Removing said directory…

On Windows 10 with the latest PMS update. I can confirm this is still broken. I’ve tried the codec folder fix and rolled it back to a previous update. Neither resolved the issue.

For fellow raspberry pi users: wget https://downloads.plex.tv/codecs/e613bce-97f23d579c1001d8e9cc0d2e/linux-aarch64-standard/libaac_decoder.so wget https://downloads.plex.tv/codecs/e613bce-97f23d579c1001d8e9cc0d2e/linux-aarch64-standard/libaac_encoder.so wget https://downloads.plex.tv/codecs/e613bc…

I just updated to the latest version and now getting ERROR - Codecs: Download failed: Failed to verify SHA1sum of codec! Feb 18, 2025 15:04:47.906 [1964] WARN - Codecs: Failed to download aac decoder; bailing out I have tried a few times with deleting codec folder with a backup. and let it creat…

Hi @ChuckPa @Atomatth I’m afraid I’ve just updated Plex and am running into this same issue. I’ve stopped PMS, renamed the codec folder, and restarted, but still getting the error when trying to play a film. The key bits from the log appear to be related to SHA1sum error: Feb 18, 2025 16:23:23.82…

If you are still observing issues can you please enable Debug logging and share you entire PMS logs, not just snippets. If you see a 429 response message in your logs when attempting to download codecs, this means that you’re spamming this call and our backend is temporarily blocking these requests…

Thanks for the reply. Tried again and still getting the error, so have attached the log. Plex Media Server.log (220.1 KB)

I experienced this 429 issue right after I updated PMS on my Ubuntu system. However to be fair, I didn’t get the original logs that might have caused this issue before restarting multiple times. I’ve shut down PMS and will wait ~60 minutes before attempting again. If I still receive this 429 error,…

PMS transcoding h264 broken on DS920+

Plex Media Server

BadTripProduction February 18, 2025, 3:19pm 118

Okay i fixed it, i deleted only the hashed folder with all the dll files, and replaced it with the hashed file in this zip. Can be found in the link: Playback Error after recent Plex Media Server update

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PMS transcoding h264 broken on DS920+

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