# Plex Sync without transcoding **URL:** \ **Category:** Feature Suggestions\ **Created:** [August 27, 2017, 2:23am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-sync-without-transcoding/204024 "2017-08-27T02:23:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![rayrluff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a6a055/32.png) [@rayrluff](https://forums.plex.tv/u/rayrluff)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2017, 2:23am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-sync-without-transcoding/204024/1 "2017-08-27T02:23:19Z")
Plex is not always able to correctly determine which codecs are supported on my Android phone. If I could simply disable transcoding when I am syncing that would be preferable. I don’t mind if it chooses to convert the audio and copy the video but I don’t want to wait for it to convert the video. ---
**Author:** ![tom80H](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/tom80h/32/19753_2.png) [@tom80H](https://forums.plex.tv/u/tom80H)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2021, 10:45pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-sync-without-transcoding/204024/2 "2021-06-09T22:45:34Z")
Early 2021 clean-up: duplicate > [@Sync to devices without transcoding](https://forums.plex.tv/t/sync-to-devices-without-transcoding/73614): > > Yesterday I bought PremPass so I could sync series and movies to my phone, but today I found out that due to Plex NEEDING to encode everything before it can sync, I am not able to sync to devices since my Synology DS213 does not seem to be able to transcode.   Since I am able to stream everything just fine without transcoding, I do not understand why transcoding is a MUST since it seems to be working without it just fine.   Therefore I'd like to be able to sync movies/series without transcod… ---
**Author:** ![tom80H](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/tom80h/32/19753_2.png) [@tom80H](https://forums.plex.tv/u/tom80H)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2021, 12:43am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-sync-without-transcoding/204024/3 "2021-06-10T00:43:26Z")