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

When you say mpeg4 are you referring to “AVI” or “H.264”? The software I use to create the .mp4 files is WinX DVD Ripper Platinum. The format I use is “mpeg4 + AAC”. In Plex Server, when I hover my mouse over an actively playing movie, I see “Video Transcoding MPEG4 to H264”. I’m sorry, but th…

That’s what I thought. You are using an old format codec that has “come and gone” and been replaced with better codecs like H.264. That is likely why Plex is transcoding all of this content. You’d be far better off ripping to mp4/H.264 directly.

[image] cayars: You’d be far better off ripping to mp4/H.264 directly That’s planned for when the new computer arrives, as described above. This still leaves me with one problem. I’d like to bulk-transcode around 1500 files from mpeg4 to H264. Is it possible to use the Plex Transcoder to do…

I’d suggest the conversion scripts I have in the cayars thread. You can tune them to do exactly what you want such as pull subtitles to make them external (more compatible), exclude language tracks you don’t need, etc

[image] cayars: I’d suggest the conversion scripts I have in the cayars thread OK. Which thread is that exactly? A link would be helpful. Please remember, I’m new here and haven’t had the time to figure out where everything is. Thanks.

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OK. I found your app - GitHub - mdhiggins/sickbeard_mp4_automator: Automatically convert video files to a standardized format with metadata tagging to create a beautiful and uniform media library It appears to be Windows-focused. I’ll be running my Plex server on Linux (CentOS). What I’ll probab…

It will run on any OS that has python installed. Works on MAC, Linux or Windows. It’s much easy to just query the DB for that info then to probe every file since Plex has already done it for you. I should have the SQL to do that in the cayars thread. I USED to have it all indexed but after the f…

This thread has a lot of posts, to pardon me if the answer is in one of them. I have an issue playing back video files on my Mi Box S. Essentially the majority of video files I use are 1080p 30fps out of my Canon T4i MP4 or Canon S110 MOV. Both are H.264. Client is Mi Box S, on wired ethernet usin…

There an issue when using an usb/ethernet dongle that I’m looking into. Basically, the app is treating this connection as a remote connection and droping the quality.

Disable Plex Transcoder Totally

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Disable Plex Transcoder Totally

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