There’s a few other posts about this, but they’re all archived, and this is worth raising. For years now, I’ve been dealing with the same issue : Plex tells me there are “too many active streams”, and there are exactly Zero “Active” streams. This bug is really easy to reproduce, and others have m…

So, I just had - I think - the exact same error. Well, error message anyway. But I’m pretty sure I know what caused it. I started a stream/video playing, and in a separate tab opened my notifications; this caused my single stream (it seems) to be running on both tabs. Unfortunately, I closed my ori…

I am traveling in France - my sister’s account started to show a « too many active streams » error message. Note I had set the max video transcode streams to 3. Retracing our steps: My iOS phone was downloading episodes My sister started one download on her app We started seeing the active stream…

I keep getting the same error code… This is what I pulled from the debug log. I have logged out and cleared cache on any of the devices I have tried to use. It works for a day then this happens for a while then back again. I am not sure what else I can do. It’s my bf’s account and he even increased …

I have been battling several different forms of the “Playback Error: You have too many active streams” issue for several months now. I do have “Maximum simultaneous video transcode” set to 7. I do have “Remote streams allowed per user” set to 1. However, due to: Closing browser tabs and reopenin…

Any updates here from the Plex team? This issue is driving me nuts, it’s been going on for way too long!

Under Plex server settings > Network I had to change Remote streams allowed per user to unlimited. Seems to work now… I think Downloads/Sync somehow makes Plex think there are multiple streams when downloading a file.

I am having this issue as well. Friend clicked on download by mistake on Plex App iOS. Cancels it. Plays any media - too many streams error. App is not paid yet; account is just a normal user (not plex pass). No issues for me as an admin when I repeated the steps. Current streams by other users ar…

Appreciate the suggestion on this! I’m dealing with many users shared out, so unlimited streams isn’t that feasible, since it could potentially cause more issues than it is worth. A broader question to the community/Plex Admins - how can we get this looked at so a resolution is finally reached? It’s…

This error seems to happen when a user sync some media onto their portable device. For some reason the server doesn’t acknowledge the sync has been completed and maxes out the user’s stream allowance. I dont want to keep increasing said allowance (which is a quick way to fix the issue temporarily) o…

Yup, confirming that it’s due to downloads not being “closed out” as a stream once they are complete. (Not that this is necessarily part of the symptom, but) I’ve also noticed that the client app has a significantly lagging awareness of download progress. If that awareness behaviour is also respons…

@anon18523487 This is still an issue. I’d be happy to provide fresh iOS logs if you guys are still looking into this.

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anon18523487 March 29, 2023, 7:37am 62

We finally isolated this problem. We will have a fix in a future PMS update.

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