Hi @elan
Could you make a statement if such a function is planned in the near future?
Honestly, I find it hard to believe that this is/would be a big deal.
It actually only needs the Disable Transcoding function on the category level to implement this cleanly.
Currently it is just not usable well. Either you disable all transcoding on the server (which is not possible because of many incompatible subtitles and all the phones/pads) or the 4K content kills the server at the latest at the 3rd stream.
Currently I had to set up a 2nd server because of 5 users where I only have the 4K content on it and have disabled the transcoding. Which costs a lot of money and electricity which would not really be necessary.
In addition, it is poorly usable because the users are now on 2 servers. Watch a movie in 4K it is not shown as seen in the normal movies etc. there are so many bad features in this solution, but currently this is not otherwise feasible, just because you can not say please transcode anything in this category.
Would be really really happy if you add something in this direction. It can’t possibly be much work to switch this function from the global level to the categories. You should only be able to set a hook in the category settings, no transcoding.
