Like many of you, I have 4k HDR versions of some of my media stored in a separate library. While this technically gets the job done, I would love to see a feature where I could store both copies of my media in the same library, and the app can detect if the client is 4K/HDR and choose the appropriate version to play. Many times friends choose 4k when they don’t even have HDR TVs, making the colors look washed out and they don’t understand why. This would solve that for those who are less tech-savvy and use our plex servers.
Dont waste your vote man. If Plex ever implemets this feature, by the time they do so, all of your clients will support HDR.
Id advise on thinking long term.
Nah, I don’t agree. I think the adoption of 4k in the general public is pretty exaggerated. Even if not, there’ll always be bandwidth concerns of using 4k, and this prevents someone from trying to play a 4k file from clogging my upload when they wouldn’t even benefit from it.
Some Plex clients already allow this in a way. I know Android does. If there are multiple versions of a file, the client will ask for the version that best matches the quality setting. If the user has it set to original, then it will ask for the highest bitrate version. Set it to something else and it will ask for the closest match.
Works with PlexWeb too. I think it worked on the Roku too, but I can’t easily test right now.
I also would love to see this feature, also it would be great to restrict versions to users - like user xy only can access the 1080p version while user yz can choose 4k too…
