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…

I want to second this, with a small twist. I have both a 1080p H264 (blu-ray rip) and 4k HDR HEVC (UHD rip) copies of some movies. Locally I direct play the 4k versions, and all is good. But today I noticed that for a remote user that’s requesting a 720p stream, Plex is choosing the 4k version as th…

Oh one more thing in my case - it’s especially important to choose the 1080p version as the source of transcoding, because Plex does not properly do tone mapping of 10-bit source content when transcoding at this time. So it all just looks washed out. It’s pretty terrible.

I need this too, especially the tone mapping. Just now I have a separate library for 4k HDR movies but It’s not an ideal solution.

Is there any other solution for this? It’s a real pain to have a separate library for 4k stuff.

+1 I’d like to get this as well. I only make “Optimized for TV” versions, but I think the system could pick the right optimized version if there were many depending on the requesting device. iPad request - check for an “Optimized for Mobile” version. LG TV - check for an “Optimized for TV” version.

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YES!!! My iPhone, when on WiFi Direct Streamed the 4k/HDR/HEVC version, but when I took it off WiFi, it automatically selected the 1080p/AVC version of a movie. That should definitely mean AppleTV does the same (same iOS client). I don’t have a Roku to test with, but hopefully it does the same.

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ccutrer April 15, 2019, 4:02pm 9

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Is this #9490 exactly what we need??

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