Hello. Yesterday I start use a PlexMediaServer with my Odroid-XU4 device. All just fine, but one thing which I need - is to disable transcode at all, I want that PlexMediaServer give an original stream instead of transcoded one. All my devices supports a lot of media formats and streams, I dont need…

The Plex server transcodes media when the Plex client is not capable of playing the original stream ( Direct Play or Direct Stream in Plex terms). It is not possible to disable transcoding in Plex. Were it possible, any media now transcoding would simply not play at all. There are many threads on …

There is a long ongoing topic for this very thing. Main Topic [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…

Force only direct stream, no transcoding at all

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NewPlaza June 18, 2019, 6:29pm 3

There is a long ongoing topic for this very thing.

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Ways to disable transcoding

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Force only direct stream, no transcoding at all

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Ways to disable transcoding

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