# Allow to manually disable transcoder for specific devices

**URL:** <https://forums.plex.tv/t/allow-to-manually-disable-transcoder-for-specific-devices/712103>\
**Category:** Feature Suggestions\
**Created:** [April 26, 2021, 1:39pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/allow-to-manually-disable-transcoder-for-specific-devices/712103 "2021-04-26T13:39:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![tom80H](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/tom80h/32/19753_2.png) [@tom80H](https://forums.plex.tv/u/tom80H)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2021, 4:34pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/allow-to-manually-disable-transcoder-for-specific-devices/712103/2 "2021-04-26T16:34:00Z")

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There’s an existing feature suggestion asking for an option to disable transcoding by device types.  
I suggest to vote/comment in that thread instead of keeping this duplicate in order to avoid distracting/dispersing votes.

> [@Restrict transcoding by device type](https://forums.plex.tv/t/restrict-transcoding-by-device-type/593588):
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> My plex machine isnt capable of handling multiple transcodes and has no expansion options for adding hardware transcoding. Of the people I have on there, none of them actually need to transcode on their TVs/consoles, their devices are capable and they arent subject to transfer limits but their players are configured to do it anyway by default. This issue is even worse when you have media thats x265 and it ends up getting transcoded to something that litterally eats more bandwidth and gives them…

Therefore closing this thread.

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