Trying to download some of my movies but don’t need the full size (lots of 4k movies). Before the I updated on both windows and mac my Plex (unraid) server would transcode the smaller file. But once both apps updated it was no longer transcoding just downloading the full files. Is this a common issu…

Downloads not transcoding

ItsMattL August 27, 2025, 11:28pm 4

Came here to report the same issue. Plex for Mac 1.110.0.351-4e48eb83 completely ignores the quality setting. Tried every value there; it always downloads at original quality making downloading a full season of a show completely unusable.

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Downloads not transcoding

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