Any news?
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Good question!!
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…and still no progress 2 years later
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Just reseted again for some users on my server to the amazing default of 4mbps 720p setting and I had to send them a message prompting several annoyed sighs.
I am very disappointed by the handling of that problem by the company and the plex staff.
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what about the 2 households that need to trancode?
yes this, by default it locks everyone at 4mbps. should be max by default
will never happen. although the fix is just a setting change for the Devs.
This whole situation is ridiculous. Awaken the beast!!!
Any updates with this? Not rushing or anything but any chance at a beta test? That would be awesome.
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Plex listened to us on album sorting now it’s up to you to play on this feature that everyone is asking for here! Let’s go Plex team ! 
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@elan Do we have a new timeline? Asking for a friend.
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In order to make the system/function Plex are talking about there are certain things that need to work.
They need to be able to calculate the correct bitrate (and a lot of other things) and as long as fx. embedded covers are making things break I would think theres still some way to go…
From the 2 latest releses:
- (Analysis) Bitrate analysis was sometimes incorrect when file contained image attachments (#12882) ( I still don’t think this is resorted with fx. a .bmp coverfile)
- (Analysis) Bitrate analysis was sometimes incorrect with certain audio tracks (#12955)
I would be surprised to see anything in regards to this in 2021.
Just to clarify, these were fairly minor fixes and completely unrelated to the work germane to this thread.
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Lol I love how he pops in to correct someone and leaves without providing any sort of update or ETA.
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I would really like to know how the function you are talking about would work without having a fairly precise bitrate calculated for the media?
Edit to really clarify: As I understand it plex is basically trying to creates a function that calculates the current bandwitch avaliable between server and client - that should give you a value, let say 10mbit - How would you use that value if your media files have incorrect bitrate values assigned?
So I would not go as far as say:
To be clear.
I did not say the two issues were directly connected to this new function. My point was that the new function would break without a correct bitrate, something plex has had trouble doing correctly.
Edit: If you are trying to make the function you are talking about without knowing the bitrate of the medium, I do better understand why it is taking so long.
So again - I would be surprised to see anything in regards to this in 2021.
Bitrate calculation already worked on the large majority of files.
Some files with attachments embedded got bad values for the total file bandwidth. Individual media stream calculations still looked OK.
I’m not sure I understand the conclusion you’re drawing. Of course the system needs to know the stream’s bitrate requirements.
How does a tangentially-related bugfix rule out the idea that Plex is making progress on this?
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My point was that as long as there are these kind of bugs then the solution in question (As I understand it) would not work…
The reason they are catering to small home deployments is because they certainly out number more advanced users by a massive margin. Plex is successful because of its general ease of use. Those things that make it easy to use and welcoming for everyone seem to clash with what “power users” would like. I agree that they need to do some things to improve it that would like improve the experience for both parties. I think the topic of this thread is one of those features that would really make the experience better all around. But to imply that catering to basic users is asinine, is asinine in itself. You are not the user that will keep Plex afloat, the small fries are. The small guys are why companies are putting massive investment into Plex. They are the ones who will watch Crackle and the other ad supported revenue generating content. They are the ones who will sign up for monthly Plex Pass instead of lifetime. They are the ones who will continue to generate massive revenue for the company into the future. Not us, with our massive ad free content servers. When I started adding more users to my server recently the first thing I was told is how cool they thought it was that Plex had On Demand free movies even if they were ad supported and I don’t disagree with them. Plex is growing into something bigger then any of us probably could’ve dreamed of back when we all started using it (2012ish for me). The hard part about that is they have to cater to a ton of people. Small fries that keep the company afloat with massive revenue from things like ad supported streaming and monthly Plex Pass’s, but also a very loud small group of users who want Plex to be the perfect content delivery platform for them. Both are important, but one of those parties is what supports everything the other party wants.
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That sounds like a change in support strategy if one want’s those small fries to keep paying - normal users don’t normally get satisfied by a forum where one might get an answer.
I don’t disagree. Forums are going to be really off putting to the average user, but coming up with a better support system for them would require diverting more resources from their very loud and vocal forum members. I think Plex is stuck in a pretty weird place right now where they offer a service and platform that has to cater to a pretty technical group of people who have certain expectations and definitely have a little deserved entitlement as they are the reason Plex is here at all today, but they also have to service the average streaming user who will ultimately make up the bulk of their revenue and keep Plex alive well into the future. Those two things frequently clash in their needs and it has to be a nightmare for the Plex team to deal with. I frankly find it amazing that members of the Plex team even show up in these discussions and find that really admirable with what I can only imagine is a massive plate of s**t in front of them every day.
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