Plex multiple movie versions! Please acknowledge:(

[pshanew]

The selection of the “best” version to stream for a given connection and client should already be working:

How does Plex handle transcoding when there are multiple versions of a library item available?

What I mean is the following…say a Movie has 3 versions: 720p @ 3 Mbps 1080p @ 8 Mbps 4k @ 30 Mbps Now, let’s say a user has configured max quality as 720p, 4 Mbps. Will Plex: a) Try to direct play the 720p version or; b) Will it pick the highest quality version (in this case 4k) and transcode it down to 4 Mbps? I’m hoping Plex is smart enough so it’s “a” because “b” is basically the worst thing it could be doing since right off the bat it knows what versions and bitrates are available f…

If it does not, you may need to pursue that in another thread for troubleshooting.

As for the multiple versions of the same movie, that’s been requested elsewhere. This is the best I can find right now [Edit: Otto’s links for this feature below are better]:

[Implemented] - Multiple Cuts Of Movie

Expanding the current SD/HD version functionalityW00t first thread in here! I'll copy/paste from a thread elsewhere previously :). What would be great is if Plex lists a movie once, but when you select it it then comes up with all the multiple different cuts that you've got in your PMS.