Questions About Getting High Quality Streams With Plex

General Discussions
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Hi, I wanted to ask some of you about getting the highest video quality possible while using Plex on a Roku. I have a fairly inexpensive Acer laptop that I’ve had for a few years - it has a AMD Ryzen 3 2200U with Radeon Vega Mobile Gfx processor, with only 2 cores. It has AMD Radeon Vega 3 Graphics. I have the quality setting in Plex set to 8 mbps 1080p for both internet streaming and home streaming. I have ripped about a dozen of my Blu Ray discs so far with MakeMKV and have them in a Movies folder so I can stream them through Plex and watch with Roku. I’ve noticed that the processor on my laptop is at or near 100% when streaming the movies and the movies stutter at times while playing. Would my best option be to get a laptop with a better processor with more than 2 cores and with better graphics? I have fast WiFi at my house so I don’t think that is affecting it. Thanks for any help you can give me.

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Why not leave Home on max? it is likely transcoding because because it is lowering quality. (also each app has it’s own quality settings)

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I didn’t know that leaving Home on max would actually make it better. Do you mean each app, as in my Roku, has it’s own quality settings? If you could leave the settings for quality that you would recommend, I would appreciate it. Thanks for the help!

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Max/original means it won’t lower quality assuming the player can play that file type. I don’t know what quality your blueray rips/remuxes are but if it is a 4k with a 30mb/s bit rate then setting the home setting at 8mbps 1080p it is lowering quality.

granted wifi may not be fast enough for a max stream so it might need to lower due to that as well.

Yes. changing the quality in the web player will not change the quality for a different player. It is not a server setting it is a player setting.

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basically the server quality/bandwidth settings control maximum quality

the client quality can be set to a lower quality/bandwidth, when/where necessary, but if possible leave at the highest/max quality in order to direct play (no transcoding on the server).

the server may still have to transcode, if the client isn’t fully compatible with the file’s codecs.

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Thanks for your help!