Docker and plex failed to transcode

HackitZ · 14. April 2019

Hi

Ok i have been asking over at the plex forums and have a tempo fix, but was advised to look for a permanent fix here.
Here's my issue
i have plex working all my data is showing and up to date.
if i try to play music or movies i get: Conversion failed. The transcoder exited due to an error.

In the plex forum i was advised to change noexec to exec in fstab on one of my media drives. i was also told this is a temp fix

Here's how i setup plex
under Volume and bind mount table i have /media set to /sharedfolders.
This was the only way i could get plex to see my movies, MMA, kids Movies and music folders.
All my media is spread over 3 drives.
I have tried to add /media /movies, /media /movies2, /media /kids moves under Volume and bind mount table and so on but the container errors out. which closes the container and i have to re add plex.

in the plex forum i was advised to ask,
how to make the required changes to /etc/default/openmediavault and /etc/openmediavault/config.xml such that data drives are mounted exec.

Thanks for any and all help.

geaves · 14. April 2019

Zitat von HackitZ

how to make the required changes to /etc/default/openmediavault and /etc/openmediavault/config.xml such that data drives are mounted exec.

Here

HackitZ · 15. April 2019

fyi for the next person, make sure you remove noexec from all drives with media. guide just shows one drive.
if i'm wrong please advise.
tnx

gderf · 15. April 2019

Only necessary to remove noexec from the drive that has the Plex media server library on it (/config location when using the docker). This is where the transcoders are located. Not necessary to do on drives with only media on them.

But in my case I removed noexec on all data drives anyway.

Blabla · 15. April 2019

Hi,
I'm having the same error too.
I already followed the guide and removed the noexec from every hdd where I have media or plex config folder.
I still get this error:
Error creating directory "/transcode/Transcode/Sessions/plex-transcode-jzs2bx03gmrjoxka4hbdg30r-989c59c5-8d63-4df8-af76-5b9ea4df5841": boost::filesystem::create_directories: Permission denied: "/transcode/Transcode/Sessions"

This is my Plex configuration:

This is the disk where I keetp the folder /config:
/dev/sdc3 /srv/dev-disk-by-label-Applicazioni ext4 rw,relatime,discard,jqfmt=vfsv0,usrjquota=aquota.user,grpjquota=aquota.group 0 0

What am I doing wrong?

EDIT:
in case someone else got this error too: I just put the /transcode folder into
./Config/Plex/Transcoding/Transcode

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