Optimizing Music Videos

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Server Version#: 1.20.5.3600
Player Version#: Web 4.47.1

I’ve got a few music videos in 4K that I would prefer to stream to things like an iPad off my network. Although I can change the quality, I run Plex off a Raspberry Pi, so it isn’t exactly practical. Anyone know if I’m just missing where you can optimize the videos?

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Are these music videos attacked to your music library? If so, you can’t run the optimizer on these. You’ll have to do it manually. If it’s just a video library, the option should be there. I see it.

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They are “attached” with inline method per the documentation on Plex’s website. How would I manually optimize them?

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You can’t optimize them, that’s a Plex term. You can manually re-encode them using a program like FFMPEG. If that’s something you’re not familiar with here is a slightly more complicated method.

  • copy all the videos into a new folder
  • make a new movie library pointing to this new folder
  • optimize all the files
  • copy the optimized versions and overwrite the original version
  • delete this new movie library
  • delete this new folder and all the files in it
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That blows. I have used FFmpeg before, as well as other solutions like handbrake (specifically the CLI version). I wish I could still have both versions to switch between though. What a shame.

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