# Filter by codec video **URL:** \ **Category:** Feature Suggestions\ **Created:** [January 15, 2013, 11:17am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/filter-by-codec-video/27173 "2013-01-15T11:17:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![kitwalker](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/kitwalker/32/340151_2.png) [@kitwalker](https://forums.plex.tv/u/kitwalker)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2013, 11:17am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/filter-by-codec-video/27173/1 "2013-01-15T11:17:24Z")
Hello All I have a feature request could we have a filter added in movie/video sections for filter/sort by codec. Would be most helpful in identifying non-optimal video files. Regards Lance ---
**Author:** ![tom80H](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/tom80h/32/19753_2.png) [@tom80H](https://forums.plex.tv/u/tom80H)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2021, 2:28pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/filter-by-codec-video/27173/2 "2021-01-17T14:28:11Z")
Early 2021 clean-up: duplicate > [@Filter by video CODEC (for optimization purposes)](https://forums.plex.tv/t/filter-by-video-codec-for-optimization-purposes/129631): > > Being able to filter by video CODEC would be very beneficial. I’m doing some encoding with HEVC currently…but having my server transcode from HEVC-\>H264 appears to take more CPU resources than H264-\>H264. This is holding me back a bit. I’d like the ability to use the media optimizer to pre-build H264 versions of my HEVC media until I can afford to replace more of my clients with HEVC-capable replacements (currently only have 1x Roku 4). ---
**Author:** ![tom80H](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/tom80h/32/19753_2.png) [@tom80H](https://forums.plex.tv/u/tom80H)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2021, 12:47am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/filter-by-codec-video/27173/3 "2021-06-10T00:47:26Z")