It seems like today is one of those days where the Roku client inexplicably reverts the streaming quality to 720p, because multiple family members on multiple Rokus are all watching media and transcoding when they should be direct playing. My server is unusable right now (my library is x265 and 4k and there are currently 6 streams getting transcoded to x264 and 720p).
@elan my simple suggestion years ago could’ve avoided all of this (and it happens frequently enough that it’s at the point of being rage inducing). Since your preferred solution is taking years to implement, the decent thing to do would’ve been to start with the simple community suggestion to alleviate the problem, and then take however long you needed to do things the way you want to.
This has been one of my biggest complaints about Plex over the past few years. Instead of fixing problems with the simple solution, you opt for the most complicated, system shaking fix that could possibly be thought of.
We’re much more low maintenance than that. We just want our servers to work normally. Maybe next time fix the problem, and then embark on whatever multiyear journey you need to come up with a solution to your liking.
