I’ve searched a bit - but not finding the answer to this question: is Plex capable of selecting the best version of an optimized video to stream to clients? I have friends who use my server - there’s no way I can realistically expect them to select specific versions from the UI. I have set up opt…

Optimizer/Automatic Version Selection

ccutrer April 15, 2019, 4:02pm 9

!!!

Is this #9490 exactly what we need??

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