Plex quality has disappeared while playing video through browser

[klooz]

When playing files I am no longer able to choose my quality, either to play original, for the play at 0.8mb, 1.2mb, 2mb, 5mb, 8mb, 10mb, 20mb, and original. This also affects when I’m watching live TV, often HD channels are played at a lower resolution when I’ve previously been able to pull HD interlaced streams,

I’ve had a quick look through settings and release logs and there doesn’t seem to be any mention of this, I’m guessing maybe this is being handled automatically but I did like to be able to set my stream bandwidth especially being in remote Australia and often 0.8 or 1,2 is the only thing that works smoothly enough.

Is there an option to turn this feature back on? It is very helpful for myself due to some slow external connections when sharing media.

Thanks for any help I receive, I appreciate it very much

Benjamin R

Server Version#:
Linux media 5.4.0-58-generic #64-Ubuntu SMP Wed Dec 9 08:16:25 UTC 2020 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS
Release: 20.04
Codename: focal

Player Version#: plexmediaserver_1.21.1.3830-6c22540d5_amd64.deb

[tom80H]

Where exactly are you missing those settings?
I can still set my preferred video quality settings per player (e.g. Plex Web, PMP…) and change them during playback using the player settings.

[tom80H]

From what I see there’s no quality settings for Plex’ video on demand – I suppose those are already quite optimized for streaming.

[FordGuy61]

This came up quite awhile back. The discussion was for movie & TV libraries.

Re-analyzing the library seemed to resolve things for some users.

A second suggestion was to sign out of Plex Web, clear the browser cache, restart browser, and sign in again.

No idea if it helps with live TV / DVR recordings (and not applicable to Plex VoD offerings, as mentioned by tom80H).

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[klooz]

Hey everyone thanks for the help, I did the Analyze thing on a library and it re-appeared but was still absent from my live tv streams. I went into LiveTV settings, then device settings of my tuner and even though “CONVERT VIDEO WHILE RECORDING” was “Off”, I’m now not entirely sure what it actually does but regardless I turned it from “Off” to “Transcode”

Thanks everyone

[klooz]

Whats Plex video on demand? No offense but is it all that crud that appears before I get to my library? Because I’ve not ever watched it, there’s no screen grab of me watching it.