I am not a server master so excuse any noobness on my part. Last week or so a bunch of movies and TV series have become unplayable. All the files up until then have played just fine. Just spinning ring of death. I found the error below and tried some things to try and fix the issue. I have restart…

I will look into this for sure. Would this issue only affect windows? The files play fine on android and ios.

The difference would be transcoding versus direct play. It sounds like Brave/Edge has to transcode the audio (browsers have notoriously poor codec support), invoking Easy Audio Encoder, which encounters this error. Android and iOS support the video/audio codec, so it’s direct playing, so doesn’t nee…

Yes it does work thank you. I’m not sure what could of made it have issues all the sudden. I never used the app before. Always the browser. Been using Plex for like 6 or 7 years. Browser is just easier. Anywhere I can go to get maybe more compatible codecs that will work with the web player? Or any …

[image] Fallenfederation: I’m not sure what could of made it have issues all the sudden.[…] Been using Plex for like 6 or 7 years. It’s unlikely to run into issues with a small library, but as you add more folders to your library, the number of inotify slots increases, and it sounds like you’…

[image] DTR: The link in my first comment should be the resolution (and this post goes into a bit more details about why the inotify causes EAE errors). Yea for sure ill look into it see if that could be the issue. I have almost 9k movies and about 200 series and about 60k music. But about 4 …

Recent Playback Problems EAE

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A full inotify table can cause EAE timeouts. Increasing the size of the table may help: Linux Tips - General Discussions / Tips, Tricks & How-Tos - Plex Forum

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