# \[Feature Request\] Give priority to Optimized versions when streaming
**URL:** https://forums.plex.tv/t/feature-request-give-priority-to-optimized-versions-when-streaming/235266
**Category:** Feature Suggestions
**Created:** [May 10, 2018, 5:13pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/feature-request-give-priority-to-optimized-versions-when-streaming/235266 "2018-05-10T17:13:22Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@TheMichaelMitchell](https://forums.plex.tv/u/TheMichaelMitchell)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2018, 5:13pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/feature-request-give-priority-to-optimized-versions-when-streaming/235266/1 "2018-05-10T17:13:22Z")
I don’t think the client should have to opt in to using the optimized version. If client remote and there is an optimized version, prefer that, even if server needs to transcode. Its infinitely easier to transcode a 720p AVC than a 4k HEVC. Not like clients do much more than hit the play button anyways, why would they dig in settings for alternate versions? The current logic kind of makes the optimized versions irrelevant since they aren’t used.
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### Author:  [@tom80H](https://forums.plex.tv/u/tom80H)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2021, 3:12pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/feature-request-give-priority-to-optimized-versions-when-streaming/235266/2 "2021-05-30T15:12:27Z")
Early 2021 clean-up: duplicate
> [@\[Feature Request\] Allow clients to play only the optimized version if it exists](https://forums.plex.tv/t/feature-request-allow-clients-to-play-only-the-optimized-version-if-it-exists/667571):
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> I would love one or both of the following options in PMS: If an optimized version of a movie exists, only provide that version to clients. OR If an optimized version of a movie exists, default to that version in clients. Either way, when a person goes to a movie in a client and hits Play, the optimized version will automatically play. Compare that to how it currently works: in the Roku client for instance, the user sees a Play button. If you don’t know about optimized versions, you’re just …
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### Author:  [@tom80H](https://forums.plex.tv/u/tom80H)
#### Post date: [June 10, 2021, 12:42am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/feature-request-give-priority-to-optimized-versions-when-streaming/235266/3 "2021-06-10T00:42:28Z")