# Adaptive Streaming

**URL:** <https://forums.plex.tv/t/adaptive-streaming/178050>\
**Category:** Dev/API Corner\
**Tags:** other-dev\
**Created:** [February 1, 2017, 4:27pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/adaptive-streaming/178050 "2017-02-01T16:27:26Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Jonesh55](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/da6949/32.png) [@Jonesh55](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Jonesh55)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2017, 4:27pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/adaptive-streaming/178050/1 "2017-02-01T16:27:26Z")

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Hi guys,

I’m currently building an adaptive streaming service for a client which will take into input any video file and will output HLS + MPEG-DASH. I was wondering if there was a way to use PLEX with this system meaning force PLEX to use the m3u8 and mpd of my system instead of going through the internal transcoding. Any help will be much appreciated.

Thx

J

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**Author:** ![gjames2467](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/13edae/32.png) [@gjames2467](https://forums.plex.tv/u/gjames2467)\
**Post date:** [October 12, 2018, 3:42pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/adaptive-streaming/178050/2 "2018-10-12T15:42:33Z")

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J - did you ever make any headway on this. I am trying to do the same thing.

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/2/a/2acb9765406f63293d357b4ec509ec39aa28f2ad.png) [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)\
**Post date:** [January 8, 2020, 8:01pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/adaptive-streaming/178050/3 "2020-01-08T20:01:57Z")

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