Running Plex on a Synology DS412+ which can have problems doing live transcodes of some files. Previously, I manually processed problemative files through ffmpeg but I’m hoping to start using the optimised versions option.
I’d like to create my own encoding profile for 720p/8Mb, but that’s not a default option (720p/4Mb, 1080p/8Mb). I’m guessing there’s probably an XML file or some other textconfig file somewhere that specifies these various options – can anyone point me at it, and are there any caveats people are aware of?
You can’t make that setting. The clients don’t support it.
@MovieFan.Plex said:
You can’t make that setting. The clients don’t support it.
Wait, what? How does that ever happen ? People’s files have any bitrate for any resolution, how can clients not support those (non existing) custom profiles?
Sorry, I wasn’t clear. There is no quality setting for 720p/8 Mbps on the client end, so if the file is set to 720p/8 Mbps, the client would need to have a setting of 1080p/8 Mbps in order to direct play it. So the appropriate optimized version setting would be 1080p/8 Mbps. You can manually create a file for 720p/8 Mbps, but since the optimize feature is designed to line up with the clients, it doesn’t allow that combo.
