EDITED Hello, it would be IMMENSELY helpful if you guys could add a “NO TRANSCODING” allowed feature. Probably better said as “DIRECT PLAY ONLY” I have to constantly tell people I have shared with to change their settings so that they direct play… Like…ALL THE TIME!!! I know their client hardwa…

[image] leo_037: IT WILL STILL TRANSCODE. That should not be possible with that setting enabled. If you can reproduce and provide your server log, I will take a look. To be clear, that setting only affects transcoding video. It will still direct stream video and/or transcode audio.

I think OP rather wants Default All Clients to Max Internet Streaming

You mean beside sparing the CPU/GPU for other tasks, preventing a system/server’s fans from ramping up to 100%, and saving a bunch of power, better quality, less buffering and less issues overall if the server can’t actually handle the transcoding? Or the reduced loading time, less times the player…

LOL. This is ridiculous at this point. Whoever makes these decisions at Plex needs to get a clue. If it’s a group effort to make these decisions then hire one more person.

I find that when I’m remote it takes less time to start a movie with transcoding than without, as it it may sit there for 10 minutes trying to buffer before failing. But I never see my CPU peg with Hardware transcoding, and That is with 8 simultaneous transcodes. While I agree that the plex client…

If your content is 1080p and you have at least a 1080p monitor it will not transcode, as it doesn’t have to. Unless that 720p 2mbps setting is ticked, then it will. You can set a maximum transcode resolution server-side, you can set a max bandwidth level and adjust some other minor things as norma…

I’m not quite sure why you are arguing with me. I agree have the remote quality set to 720 on the clients is point less at this point. But I will say this though, Not having the upload bandwidth is not always something that the server owner can remedy. Gigabit upload is not available in 90% of th…

You check “disable video stream transcoding” and then post a screenshot of the audio being transcoded. I’m very confused as to why you think disabling the video transcoding will have any affect on the audio?

He doesn’t. I think he was just showing that even a direct video stream could still transcode the audio Then showed that a different video that needed to transcode the video wouldn’t play at all if he disabled video transcoding The OP said that his video was still transcoding even with that optio…

This is exactly what I’m talking about an iphone should play at 1080p direct play! If for whatever reason plex is transcoding to 720p or 480p because it had a hiccup in bandwidth or there isn’t enough bandwidth. I would rather than the stream not happen if it can’t direct play

Please add NO TRANSCODING option (DirectPlay only)

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DeBoet September 29, 2022, 2:45pm 30

For that case there is this:

Thats the original feature request.

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Please add NO TRANSCODING option (DirectPlay only)

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