go for it devs!
Many other media server packages offer this feature. Kind of baffled why it has not been implemented in PMS at this point. Really shouldnât be rocket science to create a bandwidth maximum per user.
Throttling of streams is no rocket science.
Iâd love to see that feature implemented as well! Some of my users tend to ignore the quality setting. Nowadays, it seems that plex.web does not allow to unconnect users.
It would lovely to have to two variations:
- static limit = fix per connection
â the client would need to disallow quality settings above the static limit or autoselect the static limit, if the client defaul setting is above the limit - dynamic limit = total available bw / number of active clients
â the client would need to adjust the quality settings during playback
A total connection limit would be helpfull for both scenarios. Though it would make sense to have seperate settings for wan/lan users (both the quality and connection limits)
+1 This would be a very useful feature for those with bandwidth concerns
Just wanted to add my voice as well. I check the forums regularly to see if there is any dev acknowledgement and realized I had never chimed in.
Iâm sure itâs more complex than just presenting options XYZ to clients, but I would like to think that it wouldnât be impossible.
big family limited connection need this feature !
Yes please.
Iâm running into bandwidth concerns myself. I could really use a throttling or cap feature too!
Not really a solution, but the startings of an interim workaround
How is the Useful?
That depends. It may not be if you have a powerful PMS and/or very few simultaneous users/devices. If however you often see your main server being ground to halt because of the transcoder and you have access to additional computational capacity, this might be useful to you.
This approach also makes it possible, in theory, to take advantage of scalable computing via services like Amazonâs ECS and Googleâs Compute Engine. By default you could have a dedicated, cheap instance (like ECSâs t2.micro) running PMS, then when a user requests a stream, a larger ECS instance could be spawned to do the encoding. When the user is done watching, the extra ECS instance can be turned off, thereby saving you money.
Theoretically, you could go the other way to restrict transcoding sessions to lower bitrates.
Not for the faint of heart, but itâs an opportunity that could be explored for anyone sufficiently impacted/motivated.
Here too⊠+1
+1 Yes, that would be great!
@deepseth, no you actually couldnât. If youâre not modifying the commands sent to the server, youâre not doing much at all
+1 Vote very useful feature.
Implement this now please!
@random.server said:
@deepseth, no you actually couldnât. If youâre not modifying the commands sent to the server, youâre not doing much at all
Not out of the box, no, but if youâre intercepting all Plex New Transcoder calls, youâre effectively MITMing anything that doesnât direct play. At that point, you can adjust what happens.
@deepseth said:
Not really a solution, but the startings of an interim workaround
Not for the faint of heart, but itâs an opportunity that could be explored for anyone sufficiently impacted/motivated.
Note the caveats 
Hi donât understand why they impelemted the media optimizer, hardware on the own side is not a big deal but limited upload from the provider.
Nice would be somthing like a intelligent remote quality as excample:
It should be possibel to limit the upload for all remote players like the sync option. If I limit the upload to 20mbit/s and one stream is running this stream should get 20. If a second stream starts the quality should change to 2 x 10mbit/s if a thrid stream start it should change to 3 x 6mbit/s.
+1⊠Much needed for administrators of servers with a lot of users!
I would love this feature, but for my purposes even just being able to disable remote streaming for specific users would be enough. Iâm actually really surprised that neither of these options exist.
+1 Iâd really like to see this implemented sooner rather than later. My media bitrates vary and I really donât want to be wasting my bandwidth on a 20Mbps 1080P movie. Iâd rather force a transcode to something much lower.
+1 This request is over two years old and growing⊠I guess the only votes that count are not the users responding to this feature, as it has more pages them almost all the others.
