Allow changing quality of remote streams from server

Feature Suggestions
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It would be great if I can change the streaming quality from the Activity Dashboard, similar to how I can stop a stream from there.

My entire family uses my plex server, with some family members being technology savy and others not so much. I walked them through setting remote quality to Original for all their devices, so by default they stream at that quality. It would be great if I could manually override that setting just for that current stream. For instance, they start streaming a 15Mbps movie which causes alot of buffering. I could select it on my server to convert to a more reasonable stream. Yes, they could do that themselves, but a few family members took weeks to just to teach how to launch Plex (sorry, Mom), so walking them through this over the phone can be painful. Another scenario is if I need to upload a bunch of stuff for work. I could set streams to a lower quality when I require more bandwidth and then set it back to Original when i’m done.

2

Please, do allow server managers the ability to suggest/enforce quality settings

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+1 Due to this feature missing, I may decide to switch back to Emby

4

This is really necessary!

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+1 yes, this would be great. I would find it even better if it were automatic by checking the player’s bandwidth at the beginning of the video

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I’d also like to see the ability to limit but not deny transcoding. We should have the ability to deny transcoding for bitrate with a threshold, but allow it for format. I shared with my sister, and then her friends all wanted in so I shared with them. In the past week my server is getting hammered with transcodes because all their kids are home from school with nothing to do. The majority of them are severely stomping the files down to 0.7Mbps on home devices (absolutely no need since I have symmetrical gigabit and I know they all have Fios or Optimum), basically due to incorrect settings at their end.

I have a lot of older files that do need transcoding on some clients though and have not gotten around to getting them reripped, so I can’t just disable transcoding.

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This has been a request that gets opened and closed so many times. It’s pretty frustrating that this is still an issue. Plex, please share with the community, why this hasn’t been implemented yet. This has to he something that Plex is very aware of. Implement the ability to force the setting at the app, please.