# Deny transcoding for friends **URL:** \ **Category:** Feature Suggestions\ **Created:** [July 4, 2014, 2:02pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/deny-transcoding-for-friends/70113 "2014-07-04T14:02:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 7
**Author:** ![tom80H](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/tom80h/32/19753_2.png) [@tom80H](https://forums.plex.tv/u/tom80H)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2021, 11:13pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/deny-transcoding-for-friends/70113/7 "2021-05-31T23:13:06Z")
2021 clean-up: duplicate > [@disable transcoding (per user setting)](https://forums.plex.tv/t/disable-transcoding-per-user-setting/86588): > > Hi,   I would love to have a feature that would allow me to disable transcoding on a per-user base. I share my media amongst some users but I have to ask them to only directplay (using the plex theatre app on PC/MAC) because otherwise after 4 concurrent sessions my CPU starts to give up ...   thanks for considering !   edd--     --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.plex.tv/t/deny-transcoding-for-friends/70113)._