Would be great if you could disable transcoding on certain libraries! For instance my server can’t handle x265, so would love to be able to disable transcoding for a specific library containing x265 so only direct play is allowed. Especially with 2160p being used a lot, it could be relevant for a l…

Interesting idea. Here’s a topic about disabling transcoding entirely. [image] Disable Plex Transcoder Totally General Discussions 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…

Yea, but i only want it for specific libraries! Some files can be transcoded just fine by my server! 2160p is just way more cpu intensive than 1080p while x265 is way worse than x264. Thinking that 8K will come in the future also, it would be nice to make sure users dont burn down the server

It’s amazing you got no love for this request. I would of figured that some of the folks wanting to disable entirely would/or could start here.lol

I also don’t get it… Some Non-techies also transcode by mistake, when it might be content they could play with direct play. For me it’s logical that the Server should be able to manage what the users can do, so the administrator of the server knows how much of the system ressources could be used.

Still wish this feature was here… prefer not to transcode my 2160p files, but are ok with 1080p files. A feature like this would allow me to do so and with 8K also coming, it will just be a neverending issue

I’ve the same wish. I would like to disable transcoding for my 4K library specific.

Yes! This or disable transcoding by user. I have issues with some less technical users in my family who transcode everything, even though they don’t need to. I’d turn it off entirely, but there is one library my wife uses that requires transcoding for certain videos to play. Some sort of deaper con…

If I only had more votes. Being able to dissable transcoding for certain media would be useful. So long Plex doesnt support tonemapping, the software just seem buggy in its current state.

Also looking for a way to do that… I don’t want my other users to try to transcode 4K when it will just burn my server’s CPU for not selecting the good Audio track or using PGS subs instead of SRT…

Disable transcoding on specific library

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Interesting idea.

Here’s a topic about disabling transcoding entirely.

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Disable transcoding on specific library

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