# Disable transcoding entirely

**URL:** <https://forums.plex.tv/t/disable-transcoding-entirely/761980>\
**Category:** Plex Media Server\
**Tags:** server-linux, server-docker, android-tv, plex-web\
**Created:** [December 3, 2021, 2:33pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/disable-transcoding-entirely/761980 "2021-12-03T14:33:15Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![alive1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c89c15/32.png) [@alive1](https://forums.plex.tv/u/alive1)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2021, 2:33pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/disable-transcoding-entirely/761980/1 "2021-12-03T14:33:15Z")

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Server Version#: 1.25.0.5282  
Player Version#: web version  
So after googling this issue for a while, the only option to disable transcoding is under Transcoding → Disable video stream stranscoding.

Yet plex still thinks it should transcode. FYI, I disabled subtitles on a 4k title and tried to stream it to the web app. Plex tries to transcode it.

I really wish there was an explicit option to “only ever allow streaming or direct play” and let the player fail if it cannot decode the media with a descriptive error as such.

Please, I just want to have a bit-perfect stream to my player of choice.

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**Author:** ![drzoidberg33](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/drzoidberg33/32/4184_2.png) [@drzoidberg33](https://forums.plex.tv/u/drzoidberg33)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2021, 2:38pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/disable-transcoding-entirely/761980/2 "2021-12-03T14:38:05Z")

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> [@alive1](#):
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> I disabled subtitles on a 4k title and tried to stream it to the web app. Plex tries to transcode it.

A browser is not a capable player, the video is probably hevc encoded and the browser likely doesn’t support it.

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**Author:** ![alive1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c89c15/32.png) [@alive1](https://forums.plex.tv/u/alive1)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2021, 2:54pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/disable-transcoding-entirely/761980/3 "2021-12-03T14:54:34Z")

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Fair enough, I will try on my nVidia Shield and report back. However, I’ve generally just accepted that I need to use Kodi on the shield to get any uniformity in frame rates.

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/2/a/2acb9765406f63293d357b4ec509ec39aa28f2ad.png) [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2022, 2:54pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/disable-transcoding-entirely/761980/4 "2022-03-03T14:54:59Z")

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