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…

I really just want the engineering/development team to see/hear my request. This is something that has been discussed at length on the Plex groups on facebook. I am not the only one that has this issue. Now either this can be handled with a server side setting. Or maybe more intelligently. On the…

Serious Question, Why are you so against having Plex Transcode?

[image] leo_037: with the settings the way I want them. Let’s see if the log files show anything. Please provide a screenshot from your server of Settings → Server_Name → Transcoder + Show Advanced. Configure debug, not verbose, logging in Settings → Server_Name → General + Show Advanced. P…

Testing results with my PC. Server: PMS 1.28.2.6151 on Windows 10 Pro. Client: Plex Web 4.91.1.26703 Blu-ray rip: H.264 video; dts audio. Direct streams video, transcodes audio [Screenshot (1459)] DVD rip: MPEG2 video; AC3 audio Chrome cannot direct play MPEG2 video. Video transcoding di…

[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.

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…

Please add NO TRANSCODING option (DirectPlay only)

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OttoKerner September 15, 2022, 7:25am 13

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

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Please add NO TRANSCODING option (DirectPlay only)

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