completely stolen+inspired from infuse+vlc,
but holycrud that’s a lot of formats that
they’re playing natively.
just imagine, even on the slowest
of plex servers, hand off time to your
(in my case, ios) device is now
limited by network speed, not
processing power.
i’m buying infuse as well, but golly,
paired with a plex server? now i
can catch up on a season on
the road with an hour of prep
instead of several nights of transcoding.
pretty please? vote me into the stratosphere?
This seems like it would be a great option.
+1
yeah.. i thought too "why the heck needs a 200mb avi file to be converted?" AVPlayer supports almost any format for years on iOS... Plex seems to only supports the native iOS mp4 format , or not?!
Other than the windows/Mac/Linux desktop client which is a fork of xbnc, Plex clients are just wrappers on the platforms native player.
On Android there is the possibility to provide a custom player engine however that would significantly increase the scope of work for maintaining the client.
I think the Plex team has previously indicated they are at least considering a custom player on android but in the meantime they jus use the native one.
well,
infuse hit #1 in entertainment in the ios app store. the promise of plexsync, with zero-transcoding-just-transfer-time.
granted over a cable right now, but they just sent out a survey asking what protocols people would like.
all for $5.
videos i could never get to work via plexsync? first try.
scrobbles+autograbs subtitles, too.
meet to compete on this one.
+1
Other than the windows/Mac/Linux desktop client which is a fork of xbnc, Plex clients are just wrappers on the platforms native player. On Android there is the possibility to provide a custom player engine however that would significantly increase the scope of work for maintaining the client. I think the Plex team has previously indicated they are at least considering a custom player on android but in the meantime they jus use the native one.
Does this mean, that something like infuse will never be possible with Plex for iOS?
+1
I'd like to suggest a specific implementation of this feature: add an option "original file" for sync quality (where possible).
+1
+1. Please make this possible. No trasncoding, no re-muxing, just the original file untouched.
would love to see plexsync without a transcode for video and audio
just copy the original file to the device - and offer the option to hand it over to any system-video-player
+1
+1 too,
no need to transcode for remote file push or even for local playback.
LANs can nowadays easily handle high bitrate HD files (15 GB BR H264 rips play perfectly fine over GB eth... more problematic with 802.11n wifi but the new "Gigabit" wifi will solve that pretty soon.
and it will be soon the same thing for 4G mobile networks...
screw transcoding for people who don't need it !
LET USE USE OUR DATAPIPES AT CAPACITY :D :lol:
I agree playing natively would be great. But that doesn't mean Plex shouldn't attempt to remux if it can. I am not interested in PlexSync at all; if this feature came I would want it to work with streaming.
I agree playing natively would be great. But that doesn't mean Plex shouldn't attempt to remux if it can. I am not interested in PlexSync at all; if this feature came I would want it to work with streaming.
It does, as far as I know. I have a fairly week server, and I know when I stream media (not Sync, but I think it's the same process) it does remux. If I'm streaming H.264 video and AC3 Audio, it only transcodes the audio (to AAC), not the video.
That being said, this feature would be great. Wouldn't ever use it, really, cause I don't have the space for full quality files on my iPad, but hey, it sounds great.
infuse. today.
plex, i love you. i want you to win.
i own infuse. i own plex.
i own lifetime plexpass.
please don’t lose customers
over this. there’s still a need
for transcoding, but there’s
a bigger need for not transcoding.
+1
just a quick update:
infuse now has wifi sync (well, via browser, ftp, and a few others).
so, plex still has time to crush.
it’s a push model (“server” to client initiated), instead of pull (client pulls from “server”), which, in my case, a headless “server,” is not as convenient as it could be.
so, um, chop-chop, eh, guys? 
+1
IMHO the PlexSync quality options are too vague at the moment (highest, high, medium etc). It would be awesome to have an option to either sync the file as is or only transcode what is required for playback on the device you are syncing to.
Just a quick question. I sync stuff to my galaxy nexus, which has a 720p screen. I assumed the highest quality selection when syncing, whether it be on a SD or 720p HD file, would simply match the resolution and details of the source file and sync that. However, when playing back a file I noticed that you can change for example, a 720p file to playback at specifications way above it (1080p 40Mbps or something ridiculous like that). Is the high or highest quality options available when syncing able to go above the specifications/details of the original file? Hopefully I made sense.
The options you saw are just there, and don't actually asplode the bitrate of the file. However, if you push the bitrate to the right settings it will just direct play (or direct stream / transcode to same quality as source if it absolutely has to be transcoded for hard subs) the file from that point up.
However, if you sync on highest quality plex just hands off the file if compatible. Now if you set your playback profile to "External Player" and select highest quality you get the file all the time (iirc)
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