# Custom "optimised versions" encoding settings **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussions\ **Created:** [April 27, 2016, 1:46am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/custom-optimised-versions-encoding-settings/143432 "2016-04-27T01:46:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Theanorak](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/theanorak/32/290548_2.png) [@Theanorak](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Theanorak)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2016, 1:46am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/custom-optimised-versions-encoding-settings/143432/1 "2016-04-27T01:46:27Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![anon18523487](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/49beb7/32.png) [@anon18523487](https://forums.plex.tv/u/anon18523487)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2016, 2:35pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/custom-optimised-versions-encoding-settings/143432/2 "2016-04-29T14:35:11Z")
You can’t make that setting. The clients don’t support it. ---
**Author:** ![KarlDag](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/91b2a8/32.png) [@KarlDag](https://forums.plex.tv/u/KarlDag)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2016, 2:51pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/custom-optimised-versions-encoding-settings/143432/3 "2016-04-29T14:51:59Z")
> @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? ---
**Author:** ![anon18523487](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/49beb7/32.png) [@anon18523487](https://forums.plex.tv/u/anon18523487)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2016, 4:45pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/custom-optimised-versions-encoding-settings/143432/4 "2016-04-29T16:45:25Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/2/a/2acb9765406f63293d357b4ec509ec39aa28f2ad.png) [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2020, 9:21pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/custom-optimised-versions-encoding-settings/143432/5 "2020-01-07T21:21:07Z")