Possible to disable server-side resizing/transcoding of photos?

Plex Media Server NAS & Devices
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I love Plex for my music & movies, but have never been able to use it comfortably for my photos because it always does server-side resizing/transcoding of photos and my Synology NAS is so slow at attempting that task compared to my client devices.

We’re talking about JPG’s mainly, and all my client devices on my local network would happily receive an original JPG quickly over my LAN and resize as needed for the client screen size very efficiently themselves. But there’s no option in Plex to allow that, and therefore PMS is always trying to resize them and takes about 10 seconds per photo and therefore makes it unbearable to browse my photo collection on any of my plex clients. It’s basically like needing ‘Direct Play’ for JPG’s. Surely pretty easy to add an on/off switch into settings that defaults to current behaviour?

FYI I’ve the latest versions of server and clients with PMS on a Synology DS214 NAS, and client is Apple TV 4k (or web client on windows, or iphone for that matter - same unusable slow result on all clients).

Here’s a previous post on the same topic that ended up getting nowhere Add feature to disable photo transcoding

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I think of it like Direct Play for movies. Ironically I have no trouble playing the latest HEVC 10 bit formats on my ageing Synology, because of Direct Play. Yes, the DS214 isn’t a super performer, but it doesn’t need to be when we have features like Direct Play. I’m just looking to have similar features added to Photos. I suspect it wouldn’t be too hard - default to current behaviour, but provide users the option to disable server-side transcode of Photos (JPG’s at least).

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