The discussion went sideways, in my opinion. Ignore the Infuse stuff and really consider what the OP is asking. If I have an 80MB video file in MP4 container, fully supported by iOS natively then why would I want to transcode this?
I think it's important for direct play checks to be more exhaustive before jumping to transcode as the way to go. Not only does it save time, but it saves on CPU cycles/power draw. It saves on HDD writes for the temporary transcode files, etc.
It would be very much appreciated if better direct play support was enabled for the iOS Plex app!
The thing is... Unless there is a bug in the iOS capability sync profile... It already checks it and determines that it is not compatible. We may need someone from Plex to confirm the compatibility profile but Plex as a whole already performs that check. The OP is instead talking about using an external player to be able to play any media format (whether or not it is natively supported). Hence him constantly bringing up infuse.
