Hiya Due to the devices i stream to i do have to change the profile from all my videos to 4.1. Past couple of days i’ve done the exact same thing, removed the file from directory, remove from plex, use H264LevelEditor, drag the file back into the directory, rescan and it usually shows the change a…

[image] faycee: it works on the actual video file itself when i check with a 3rd party application which displays codec information. All it does is to replace the label in the file header, which used to say e.g. ‘Level 5.1’ with a label which now says ‘Level 4.1’. Most other software just re…

Any ideas? Is there a way i can completely remove metadata /media information from plex so it picks up the new information? where would old information be stored in plex because its not picking up the updated info… ? regards

[image] faycee: Is there a way i can completely remove metadata /media information from plex [image] The Plex Dance ™ Tips, Tricks & How-Tos The purpose of this is to remove all cached metadata and xml data for an item that Plex usually keeps. This helps when you wa…

[image] faycee: use H264LevelEditor All this tool does is to misrepresent what is in the video data stream. i.e. it “lies” to the player which is reading the mediainfo of that file. That will only ever work if the level has been set wrong in the first place. If however the level is correctl…

sounds like, ‘you need a bigger boat’. ie, you need better devices that can play the files you want to play. or re-rip/re-encode the files to the proper profile level.

Youre 100% correct in saying that it misrepresents the actual value BUT for some reason its been working. Chromecast2 supports upto 4.1 and i genuinely felt that this application was far-fetched but it worked and it works on the actual video file itself when i check with a 3rd party application whic…

Okay that makes sense. Ive come across one of your responses :https://forums.plex.tv/t/solved-h264-maximum-level-solution/189370 . I think so far i’ve just had luck with the content i was alternating the levels to. Theres obviously alot that i need to learn. Thanks guys!

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