Hi.
I share my library with my family . With my iPhone I record many videos in 4K I keep on the server along with copies to 1080p. What I want is that people with whom I share my files to see as much video at 1080p and 4K files hide to avoid saturating the server with the transcode (my processor does not have power to 4K ) .
You can do that now ?
Thanks a lot.
There may be a better way to do it but off the top of my head I’d say create a separate directory for the 1080p copies and share that. Do not share the directory with the 4k video that way your family will not see it at all.
You could also check the plexignore function. Not sure if it will provide the necessary functionality, but it might be worth a shot. https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/201375253-Excluding-New-Content-with-plexignore
Have 2 libraries, the one with both 4K and 1080p points to both sets of folders. The other just points to the 1080p shared folder. About the easiest way to set it up.
You can do something very similar with lower reso videos for bitrate limiting, too. If you want your remote users to only use 4Mbps, make a separate folder for that media, and either OM it form the original files into that folder (main library needs to have both folder paths for this to work.) or make another copy outside of Plex at the target bitrate. Then a shared library is created pointing only to the OM folder, and this is what gets shared to remote users. They never see the high bitrate stuff, so they can never stream it.
