Hello, I came over around 50 of articles and forum posts ,but i cannot seem to find a way to completely disable Encoding/Transcoding on Plex Server Completely. Please Suggest me Something.that will Force Direct Play and won’t Transcode anyway. thanks

If you must… you can move the 2 transcoder files in different folder and it will stop transcoding. Transcoder lives here: /usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Resources/Plex\ Transcoder /usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Resources/Plex\ New\ Transcoder No server restart required even if you move it back but make sure…

This Does not Helped,if i Rename then Plex Cannot Play online ,Says,There is error playing FIle.

If you are seeing that error, it could possibly mean that the file required transcoding to make it playable on the device you are using. Why do you want it disabled so badly? It could also be that there was a change made since people started doing this that has caused it to not work as it once did,…

If you are seeing that error, it could possibly mean that the file required transcoding to make it playable on the device you are using. Why do you want it disabled so badly? Answer - No, This Error only happens if i rename/move The Transcoder file as mentioned above.and get fixed if i put transcod…

If you want to use Plex without the ability to transcode your media, why not just use Kodi?

@Giga-Rapid said: Answer - No, This Error only happens if i rename/move The Transcoder file as mentioned above.and get fixed if i put transcoders back. Because The CPU of my Server is not Very Good,Its already Loaded with Other Works,Can Not Let it encode.It will be to slow if i encode and stream…

@drinehart said: If you want to use Plex without the ability to transcode your media, why not just use Kodi? I’m in a similar situation. Except I have other devices that are sharing libs with me. So using Plex makes sense, except my local NAS is not capable of transcoding more than 1 thing and w…

I also would LOVE to have an option to limit transcoding. If that means the video can’t play, that’s fine. I just can’t have 3 people trying to transcode all at once. Actually, what would work perfectly is an option in the user settings where I could select which users were allowed to transcode. …

Disable Plex Transcoder Totally

General Discussions

sdlsatcom August 2, 2015, 3:45am 2

Can’t be done or forced through the server but on your mobile client you can set your remote and local quality to original, that is direct play. On your htpc client you can set your remote and local quality to 20Mbps or maximum and this will direct play it as well. This is all assuming that the video rate of the recorded file is below 20Mbps.

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Disable Plex Transcoder Totally

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