I tell my friends to only use direct play because I don’t have the CPU power to transcode. Yet they constantly ■■■■ it up. How do I disable it so that it’s impossible for them to fail? To be clear I mean video transcoding where you change the quality. Not the kind of transcoding where it has to cha…

[image] dane22: If you want to completely disable transcoding, then set the Transcoder temporary directory to a non existing path I would like to clarify this a bit more. Specifically, you have to set the Transcoder temporary directory to a path that Plex has no write access to. Simply set…

If you want to completely disable transcoding, then set the Transcoder temporary directory to a non existing path

Okey. Eany guides on how to do that on a WD PR4100 Nas?

Settings/Transcoder Click on Show Advanced

I have been a Plex member from the start, now with Lifetime Plexpass, I also really want to see this option, I know it is possible. Make it a Plex-Pass feature, because I do not want friends/family or even me to transcode 80 GB 4K bluray remuxes. I do not see the point, if it does not play on the de…

[image] slijkhuis: I made a topic in a feature requests sub forum as well, Already requested here. [image] Disable transcoding on specific library Feature Suggestions Would be great if you could disable transcoding on certain libraries! For instance my server can’t…

Yeah, I made a topic as well. [image] Per Category Transcoding Options Feature Suggestions Hi, Been a long time Plex user, and love it. Soon getting a new NAS or NUC as server. However there is 1 option I am missing. I do not mind ‘transcoding’ of most library’s, but th…

[image] slijkhuis: Yeah, I made a topic as well. We are getting to many request on this. Someone needs to merge them.

There is a workaround to stop transcoding for 4K content (it can be used to stop transcoding for specific user) https://dailysysadmin.com/KB/Article/2894/stop-or-disable-plex-from-transcoding-4k-content-using-tautulli-scripts/

Absolutely Wonderful, I will apply this immediately. Thank you for it. I hope that Plex will integrate this in the future though. :slight_smile:

Is this possible on RasberryPi? Looking to keep Plex from transcoding on the Raspberry Pi.

How to disable transcoding?

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NewPlaza August 1, 2019, 12:19pm 36

Already requested here.

Or here for 4K only

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