That would mean plex does not and never has listend to users. Good to know, thanks for the clarification.
No, he was right.
I’m almost always irritated in some way by Plex.
That causes me to be disingenuous at times.
My bad.
That was quoted a little out of context 
(I actually agreed with him)
You’re confusing “listening” to an idea and implementing that idea in that exact manner. We may iterate on an idea in a different way because we need to be cognizant of how all users might use the feature that may not fall in line with the feature request. For example some folks have datacaps, and for the exact same reason given multiple times that it’s too hard to tell x user how to find the menu to increase, many people need to lower because they have caps
Are we working on something so stream can be at max for those who want without fuss. Yes
Are we simply going to make max the default for everyone. No
If Plex defaulted the clients to max and also enabled Auto adjust quality doesn’t this already solve the problem? Like… if maximum is too much Plex should automatically lower the quality by itself. Isn’t this what the feature is for? And vice versa?
Auto adjust forces transcoding, which is the opposite of what most want.
How do you figure that it forces a transocde? The point of auto adjust is literally to give the user the quality they can handle.
Because plex currently cannot dynamically switch between direct play and transcoding, so automatic adjust starts with transcoding.
No because once the decision is made it cant be changed. Currently Auto Quality cannot switch between transcoding and direct play. Though making it do that is part of what we are working on as far as I am aware
I really hope that whatever the solution is, that I as a server owner get some control on how transcoding happens. My server (NAS) is not suited for 1080p transcoding, but a couple of 720p transcodes are okay in a scenario where direct playback isn’t possible. But I really, really don’t want my users to be able to transcode to 1080p on my server.
According to the replies from plex staff, you shouldn’t have the ability to change YOUR END USERS settings and stop them from transcoding. Even though some of us have spent thousands of dollars on servers, we shouldn’t be able to change their settings when they connect to OUR SERVERS according to them.
Currently If you do not want your server to transcode you can disable video transcoding on your server. Many folks have access to multiple servers and a single sever owner does not get to control the experience from all.
I don’t think I need to explain yet again why this is NOT the solution that we are looking for.
You should take a peek at the thread. Plenty of alternative solutions have been offered that would have taken a fraction of the amount of time that the current implementation is taking.
Consider throwing us a bone to provide a better experience for everyone while your over engineered solution is worked on along with all the other features nobody wants.
Literally no one asked for that.
the actual feature request
I meant disable it on a per user basis. I have some users that need transcoding, but most can direct play.
Then you should make a request for that if you feel it is different than this one. This feature request is pretty specific.
To be clear even though this feature request is specific and will never happen as originally asked for. The reason it is not closed is because we are aware of the nuances to this. What it is not is some simple “just to X and everyone will be happy” type of thing. We have to consider the millions of users outside the ones who voted for this.
As I have already said we are working on thing to improve situation for all. I’m sorry it is not happening in some timeframe folks have decided it is supposed to happening. i’m sorry it is not as easy have folks decided it must be.
I know it’s quite the lengthy thread, but over time that request has evolved (and many suitable alternatives have been proposed). Pointing to it is a straw man argument.
If I find some free time, I will go through the thread and update the OP with all of the most viable (and Plex rejected) solutions so that this doesn’t happen anymore.
And they have been considered and not as simple as you seem to think they are. Some inform the solution that will ultimately be in place. Whatever is ultimately in place will surely be refactored after feedback as well.
If we out right rejected them this topic would have already been closed.
From their server, yes not from other people’s servers. You have not read the thread, have you?
