Another server admin here who has been watching this thread for years. I’ve noticed now some of my users who install Plex on smart tv’s, the settings never stick when they go in and up their remote streaming quality settings, literally the very next time they log in and boom set back to 2 Mbps 720p with crap audio. So it isn’t even a solution to reach out to them to change it anymore because it always defualts back to Plex’s ridiculously low default every damn time they launch the Plex app! Which as everyone has already stated means more CPU impact on my server to transcode and a lower quality video/audio experience for my users. The default remote streaming quality setting in Plex is just absolutely dumb in 2022. Plex please, if not maximum then at least bump up the default to something that isn’t so absurdly low.
9 Likes
