Plex has been incredible to use, but just the other day it all of the sudden started to error whenever a movie or tv show needed to be transocded. I’ve come to realize that this error shows up whenever I try to transcode media with an audio codec of TrueHD. I am not sure what’s going on, and I hav…

The file I am currently on is 13.5 GB. I’m willing to help out any way that I can!

Plex doesn’t have a site nor do I have one. The only thing I have which might be of use is GoogleDrive I can hold it there but not sure how to get the file from you to me. Might you have GoogleDrive or some other cloud service we can tap for a few minutes?

I do have GoogleDrive and I just checked if I have enough space to utilize it. It says I’ve got 15 GB so we should be good!

I did get some audio/video not in sync messages here and there as well when playing the movie. It also would indefinitely sync at the begging after multiple tries and would play if i skipped passed that part.

@ChuckPa hey any update on the issue and if there will be a fix. Sorry just curious since im having a hard time figuring out how to downgrade my server to the previous code version.

Engineering has everything and are working on it now. I don’t know when they’ll have it fixed but, given the holidays, I would consider temporarily backing down to PMS 1.29.2 so you have TrueHD over the holidays.

Awesome thank you for the information.

TO ALL FOLLOWING HERE I just got out of a call with the Engineering team about this. They (and I – because I’m doing some investigating for them now – ) is the smallest sample which reproduces it + the PMS logs. What I will do (they showed me how) they want the debugger & strace run Can anyon…

Chuck you want more samples of the 7.1 truehd files? Everytime i attempted to recreate the issue with reducing the file it wouldnt fail. Would you like pms logs of the issue?

Trouble Transcoding (Decoder error: 121)

Plex Media Server

ChuckPa December 21, 2022, 10:32pm 104

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Check your PM from me.

TrueHD 7.1 Transcoding Issues - "Error while decoding stream #0:1: No space left on device"

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Trouble Transcoding (Decoder error: 121)

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