# Transcoding Errors

**URL:** <https://forums.plex.tv/t/transcoding-errors/777487>\
**Category:** Plex Media Server\
**Tags:** server-linux\
**Created:** [February 21, 2022, 12:18am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/transcoding-errors/777487 "2022-02-21T00:18:42Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 16, 2022, 2:48pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/transcoding-errors/777487/5 "2022-03-16T14:48:58Z")

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@samuel_oida_icu

Deleting codecs won’t help this. You’re getting transcoding so the codecs are fine.  
(won’t even start transcoding without codecs)

Wouldyou please recreate this , with [DEBUG logging](https://support.plex.tv/articles/201643703-reporting-issues-with-plex-media-server/#toc-1) enabled, and attach the logs?

It’s not possible to see what’s happening from a 5 line snippet

Also,

```auto
 and transcode is only for audio.

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Is this dolby audio (EAC3, etc)? If so, you’ve probably exceeded the maximum number of notification slots your kernel allows by default (Kernel , not container).

You must count the number of directories being monitored and determine the appropriate value to increase the kernel table to.

This condition can be verified by restarting Plex and downloading the logs after 3 minutes. If you see “No space left on device” then the table is full.

This procedure, (performed on the host), will remedy it.

> [@Linux Tips](https://forums.plex.tv/t/linux-tips/276247/9):
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> 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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