Force only direct stream, no transcoding at all

[NewPlaza]

There is a long ongoing topic for this very thing.

Main Topic

Disable Plex Transcoder Totally

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 Server Completely. Please Suggest me Something.that will Force Direct Play and won’t Transcode anyway. thanks

Ways to disable transcoding

Disable Plex Transcoder Totally

As I stated… as expected… lol. I woke up to three emails from friends asking what’s up with my server… SUCKS for them… LOL… No j/k. Well… My kind of disable. Windows Long File Name (LFN) limitation.

My transcoder temporary directory

C:\Users\NewPlaza\AppData\Local\Temp\Transcode\Sessions\Users\NewPlaza\AppData\Local\Temp\Transcode\Sessions\Users\NewPlaza\AppData\Local\Temp\Transcode\Sessions\Users\NewPlaza\AppData\Local\Temp\Transcode\Sessions\Users\NewPlaza\AppData\Local\Temp\Transcode\Sess…

Disable Plex Transcoder Totally

Lol. That’s something I wouldn’t have thought. I would have just made the “transcode” folder read only.