I have a movie with a 1080p and 4k file following the naming convention as set by Plex, but when I press play it will just start playing the 1080p version straight away.
After a bit of searching I found the option to select which option I want to play tucked away in the menu (the 3 dots), which seems odd to me.
Since there’s no way to select it during playing in the quality settings (which I think should be added as an option too, because any legal version of a movie will always have the same length), it would make sense that when you hit play a popup should appear asking which of the 2 (or more) versions you’d like to start the playback of.
We use to show options but users found it too intrusive, so it was changed to default to a certain version only. You need to manually select another version if that is what you want.
I can see it being intrusive, perhaps a popup when pressing play isn’t the best idea.
But I’d still like to see in the quality menu (while playing) to see options for each different quality-version the movie has file-wise.
Something along the lines of this (dutch, but you’ll get the idea):
edit: And select the default version to play based on the device resolution (or if that data is unavailable, use the user’s player quality settings instead)
edit2: I actually just now noticed that if it plays the 1080p version, it doesn’t even offer the option to play 4K at all. Adding that would fix my issue too I suppose.
There isn’t a way to switch versions after it starts playing. If you have the quality settings on your player set to something other than original, and you have a version that fits and can be direct played, that version should get chosen.
Yes I know, but that’s why this is a feature request.
Plex already has the ability to have the player play another movie, and even to start playing from a specified time, thus having the option to switch between the 2 versions shouldn’t be too hard to realize.
