# \[Powerful Feature\] - AUTOMATED Video Optimization Engine-Allows Direct Stream/Prevents Transcoding **URL:** \ **Category:** Feature Suggestions\ **Created:** [March 16, 2016, 3:19am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/powerful-feature-automated-video-optimization-engine-allows-direct-stream-prevents-transcoding/139016 "2016-03-16T03:19:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 9
**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 27, 2021, 5:32pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/powerful-feature-automated-video-optimization-engine-allows-direct-stream-prevents-transcoding/139016/9 "2021-06-27T17:32:49Z")
2021 clean-up: basic feature to optimize in place, overlap with related suggestions like > [@\[Feature Request\] Keep the optimized movie version only](https://forums.plex.tv/t/feature-request-keep-the-optimized-movie-version-only/129150/17): > > I have several shows that I know are safe to overwrite, and this would save a lot of time going back in and manually replacing them. > [@Plex New Transcoder and qt-faststart](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-new-transcoder-and-qt-faststart/41566): > > Since you guys during initial scanning already detect, if an MP4 file etc are optimized for streaming, I think it would be cool, if this could get embedded into the new transcoder, and when detecting a bad file,  an icon will show saying "Fix media" or siml.   [https://github.com/danielgtaylor/qtfaststart](https://github.com/danielgtaylor/qtfaststart)   Best Regards   Tommy --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.plex.tv/t/powerful-feature-automated-video-optimization-engine-allows-direct-stream-prevents-transcoding/139016)._