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 the option could be added to Emby, I guess it can be added to Plex as well. The way Emby currently disables transcoding is per user: [image] I would also like to see this happening in Plex. Thing is, there are several forum posts regarding turning off the transcoder, they should be merged in…

In my case its not even a CPU problem… my users (no very tech friendly) complain that the quality is bad, and I have to explain them that they need to select the quality to Original. I have no network problem, and Original quality is 99% of the time the best choice. But for Plex apparently it’s not……

Another +1 for this option. I’d like to keep conversion for sync but disable transcoding of live streams (ideally for certain users but I’d gladly take a global switch).

+1 also from me - there is no point for this ■■■■■■■ transcoding when server and client can flawlessly play every movie without efforts - this always-on-feature just causes more energy consumption and a server which is blocked without reason.

[image] nachocho: If the option could be added to Emby, I guess it can be added to Plex as well. The way Emby currently disables transcoding is per user: [image] I would also like to see this happening in Plex. Thing is, there are several forum posts regarding turning off the transcoder, th…

Hi @NewPlaza Sorry, I’ve tried your trick, but I’m doing for sure some mistakes, it’s not working for me. I have my Plex Server installed on Synology NAS. All my movies/cartoons are in /Media directory. I’ve created a /Media/temp directory with read permissions for plex user. Then I’ve configured …

I’ll ask around internally and make sure there’s awareness.

Much appreciated sir. :slightly_smiling_face:

How to disable transcoding?

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anon18523487 January 8, 2020, 7:52pm 68

You add a “feature suggestion” tag. There is already a request for this. [implemented] Feature request: disable transcoding

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How to disable transcoding?

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