@rcork said:
I too made that change a few weeks back but confirmed today that the value you put in Server->Remote Access->Limit remote stream quality overwrites this field in the configuration. So no need to roll it back.
There is no such option in the current pass version.
@AgentMax - not sure what pass version youāre using, but Iām on PlexPass 1.2.2.2857, and there most certainly is the setting rcork refers to. https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/comment/1270183/#Comment_1270183
! Blog Post: https://www.plex.tv/blog/mcstreamy-brain-take-world-two-easy-steps/
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! NEW
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! New Feature - Streaming Brain.
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! (Streaming Brain) Preference for limiting bandwidth on WAN uploads. Limits can be per-stream and total.
! (Streaming Brain) Playback session termination reasons are sent to the client and displayed to the user. This may require an updated client.
! (Streaming Brain) Removed āPrioritize streaming transcodesā preference. Background transcodes such as Sync, Media Optimizer, and video preview thumbnail generation are always prioritized behind streaming transcodes, and will pause completely if the simultaneous transcode limit is reached.
! (Streaming Brain) Removed āCloud Sync upload speed limitā preference. Sync traffic automatically scales based on streaming WAN usage, and uses whatever bandwidth is left unused.
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(Itās not in DVR with a vengeance v3 if youāre on that)
Had to reload PlexWeb. Thanks.
@secretdk said:
Now make an option to limit the amount of streams per user. That would be great.
^This, we definitely need this!, I canāt keep telling friends to set bandwidth at 2Mbps or whatever, especially when itās something like 2AMā¦ when I am away from home wanting to watch something that is 11Mbps direct play, ultimately and unfortunately I will end up having to remove friends as users, as my upload speed is a measly 12Mbps.
So it would be great if we could limit the bandwidth of each users.
@tjc2005 - Iām confused.
Hypothetical - I have 10mbps (oh iād be happy) - I set a maximum of 5 streams, and limit each to 2mbps.
Are you saying you want to limit user streams to 1mbps if theyāre trying to watch 2 streams on same account?
Or do you just want that person to only be able to watch one stream at a time?
@tjc2005 said:
@secretdk said:
Now make an option to limit the amount of streams per user. That would be great.^This, we definitely need this!, I canāt keep telling friends to set bandwidth at 2Mbps or whatever, especially when itās something like 2AMā¦ when I am away from home wanting to watch something that is 11Mbps direct play, ultimately and unfortunately I will end up having to remove friends as users, as my upload speed is a measly 12Mbps.
So it would be great if we could limit the bandwidth of each users.
Hello fellow Brit (i assume :P) guessing youāre with VM
If Iām wrong whoops 
This is great but please allow us to configure this per user. Being able to set a max number of streams per user and max bandwidth allocated per user would be great.
@fudsak said:
This is great but please allow us to configure this per user. Being able to set a max number of streams per user and max bandwidth allocated per user would be great.
Please enlighten me, why is this a needed thing? I see people asking for it, but I donāt understandā¦ how and why do you have single users streaming more than one thing at once?
@KarlDag said:
@fudsak said:
This is great but please allow us to configure this per user. Being able to set a max number of streams per user and max bandwidth allocated per user would be great.Please enlighten me, why is this a needed thing? I see people asking for it, but I donāt understandā¦ how and why do you have single users streaming more than one thing at once?
People using their account to stream in multiple rooms or sharing their login with others whom the server owner didnāt give accessā¦ both plausible, and I imagine not uncommon, scenarios.
@owtlaw333 said:
People using their account to stream in multiple rooms
^^ This.
I have both friends and family Iāve shared with that have multiple room/device entertainment.
Using Plexpy, Iāve seen a large household family member stream 3 streams at once from same (router) wan ip. Fortunately, I could barely just handle it, but if another remote friend/family had tried at same time, all might have suffered.
Max amount of streams over-all helps somewhat, but then might affect my own household.
@owtlaw333 said:
@KarlDag said:
@fudsak said:
This is great but please allow us to configure this per user. Being able to set a max number of streams per user and max bandwidth allocated per user would be great.Please enlighten me, why is this a needed thing? I see people asking for it, but I donāt understandā¦ how and why do you have single users streaming more than one thing at once?
People using their account to stream in multiple rooms or sharing their login with others whom the server owner didnāt give accessā¦ both plausible, and I imagine not uncommon, scenarios.
The sharing the login scenario, that user should get his sharing privileges revoked on the spot.
I guess I can see how a husband and wife might use the same account though. In my mind theyād be different usersā¦ Thanks.
@KarlDag said:
@owtlaw333 said:
@KarlDag said:
@fudsak said:
This is great but please allow us to configure this per user. Being able to set a max number of streams per user and max bandwidth allocated per user would be great.Please enlighten me, why is this a needed thing? I see people asking for it, but I donāt understandā¦ how and why do you have single users streaming more than one thing at once?
People using their account to stream in multiple rooms or sharing their login with others whom the server owner didnāt give accessā¦ both plausible, and I imagine not uncommon, scenarios.
**The sharing the login scenario, that user should get his sharing privileges revoked on the spot. **
I guess I can see how a husband and wife might use the same account though. In my mind theyād be different usersā¦ Thanks.
Absolutely. Sometimes one just wants to skip the confrontation and leave the opportunity off the table from the get go, lol.
I have this happen when a kid gets onto userās family roku, the dad is at work on his phone watching, the mom is in the other room with chrome browser. Then the kid leaves a movie paused for 3 hours on the roku, tying up another transcoder processor.
@blurb2m said:
- Ability to kill streams, especially if left paused. Donāt make me shutdown PMS and restart it.
Used to be, even resetting your server wouldnāt stop the Rokuās from showing up as paused. Thankfully this finally got fixed a while back.
@KarlDag said:
Please enlighten me, why is this a needed thing? I see people asking for it, but I donāt understandā¦ how and why do you have single users streaming more than one thing at once?
Other users have already commented on many possible scenarios. For me, my (older) parents share a login and will often forget they left the Roku or Chromecast going and may start up an additional stream. It doesnāt matter how many times I speak to them about how to stop it, proper usage, etiquette, etc. I would just like having more control from the server side to limit them as opposed to relying on them to understand, remember, and do what I asked.
@JamminR said:
(Itās not in DVR with a vengeance v3 if youāre on that)
Damn! I may have to ditch the DVR beta so I can use this new feature. With only a 10Mbps upload, and several family members using my server, I would like to individually limit their upstream quality.
As a cable subscriber with 96% of my channels DRM protected, the DVR is just a mostly useless toy anyway!
@kd6icz said:
@JamminR said:
(Itās not in DVR with a vengeance v3 if youāre on that)
Damn! I may have to ditch the DVR beta so I can use this new feature. With only a 10Mbps upload, and several family members using my server, I would like to individually limit their upstream quality.
As a cable subscriber with 96% of my channels DRM protected, the DVR is just a mostly useless toy anyway!
Itās in there. Reload or restart Plex. Itās under āremoteā
@neebski said:
Itās in there. Reload or restart Plex. Itās under āremoteā
Okā¦ I misunderstood what this discussion was about. I was hoping for a setting for each user. Not one setting for everybody.
I have a couple of family members that have very slow (2 Mbps) Internet. They are not tech savvy so I would like to throttle them on my end.
Then I have another that thinks they own my server and watches two shows at the same time! I also want to throttle themā¦
Then there are others that I would like to allow 4 Mbps 720p.
But it sounds like this option isnāt available yet.
Not yet, no. This is the feature we asked for in this request, though. Per user limits. So far what weāve gotten is an over-all cap, and the ability to set the maximum transcoding sessions via remote. Unfortunately for some, this transcoding is also somehow working on their local connections, too.
We were told that what we got was a preview of things to come. But itās been a while since we got it, so until DVR Beta and Plex Cloud Beta are finally fully functional, I would expect weāre going to just have to wait. Unless someone comes out with another fringe item they want to run PMs onā¦ In which case itāll likely get bumped to the top of the heapā¦ 
Our requested features have lower priority than a router with a cell phone CPU in itā¦
