Remote/Local Video Quality Settings Gone in 1.9

General Discussions
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Hello,

I was just curious, as I noticed the ability to change local and remote video streaming quality has been removed in release 1.9.2.4285 (Server) and Web (3.20.8). I run Plex on my QNAP just so you know.

I’m wondering simply what was the thought/reasoning on removing that function? It appears the only option we have now is to change the “Internet Streaming” video quality to either “maximum” or less than.

So now we only have one option for both local and remote streaming?

2

If you disable ‘Use recommended settings’ under ‘Home Streaming’ you can still set the quality.

(Although it is rarely necessary to limit the quality setting for the home network.)

3

Correct, for home streaming I don’t limit that. But there was an option as you know on older versions to specifically set both local and remote. I only set the remote quality. Unless you’re telling me that the “Internet Streaming” option is basically the same as “remote” quality from what was in the earlier releases.

I only noticed it because my home videos started playing at lower quality and how I fixed that was to change the Internet Streaming to “maximum”. Which, if that is supposed to be for remote then I’m not sure why that helped.

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@ew0506 said:
Unless you’re telling me that the “Internet Streaming” option is basically the same as “remote” quality from what was in the earlier releases.

Pretty much.

I only noticed it because my home videos started playing at lower quality and how I fixed that was to change the Internet Streaming to “maximum”. Which, if that is supposed to be for remote then I’m not sure why that helped.

Maybe your server did mistake the client as being located in a different network?
This may happen if your home network sometimes separates parts of your network from each other.
Whether that is the case, can be gleaned from the server log files.

For now, inspect the server name as it shows up in your client(s). Is there a yellow exclamation mark on it, or does the word ‘indirect’ or ‘remote’ appear?

5

I see neither.

All good I will just keep moving forward. Thanks!