# Photo transcoding / converting - setting to turn it off

**URL:** <https://forums.plex.tv/t/photo-transcoding-converting-setting-to-turn-it-off/882269>\
**Category:** Plex Media Server\
**Tags:** photos-library\
**Created:** [July 10, 2024, 8:36pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/photo-transcoding-converting-setting-to-turn-it-off/882269 "2024-07-10T20:36:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![jayo4K](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9bcb4/32.png) [@jayo4K](https://forums.plex.tv/u/jayo4K)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2024, 8:36pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/photo-transcoding-converting-setting-to-turn-it-off/882269/1 "2024-07-10T20:36:44Z")

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Can we please have a feature to turn off the photo transcoding / converting? This feature seems very outdated, as modern networks are capable of serving multiple megabytes within seconds. The photos on my server are all around 3mb, but when I try to load one it takes over 15 seconds to show up, because the server is trying to transcode/convert/compress the image before serving it.

This doesn’t seem like a hard feature to implement. Can this please be done? [Another user was having the same issue here](https://forums.plex.tv/t/photo-loading-way-too-slow-probably-due-to-transcoding/627619) which perfectly describes the same issue.

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/2/a/2acb9765406f63293d357b4ec509ec39aa28f2ad.png) [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2024, 8:36pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/photo-transcoding-converting-setting-to-turn-it-off/882269/2 "2024-10-08T20:36:51Z")

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