I searched the forums but couldn't find any info on this, but is it possible to restrict certain users access to plexweb on my server? Because if some users decide to use plexweb for streaming my media the CPU usage goes to 100% and other users may experience bad performance or even cannot play …

To clarify, do you mean you want to block users that you have shared your server with from using plex web to watch media? If so, that isn't possible as you can't restrict which clients shared users can use. The CPU usage is likely due to the media they're playing requiring transcoding. This could b…

Yes thats wat i want to setup, i understand but it would be Nice if it was possible, and i think all the users are using subtitles so i understand why transcoding is needed.

Yes thats wat i want to setup, i understand but it would be Nice if it was possible, and i think all the users are using subtitles so i understand why transcoding is needed. If you're using external srt subtitle files, very few clients need to transcode to add them. Most of the time Plex just p…

Just voted on this request. Expanding the request a little I would like to see the ability to restrict different types of clients. Eg all Chrome or all Safari or all Apple TV etc. The objective is to manage the amount of transcoding that happens on the server. I know we can tune the transcoding …

The CPU usage is likely due to the media they're playing requiring transcoding. This could be for many reasons (they don't have a fast enough download speed, your server doesn't have a fast enough upload speed, they enabled subtitles, etc), but in almost all of those scenarios transcoding would be r…

I want to add some info on this, The CPU usage is likely due to the media they're playing requiring transcoding. This could be for many reasons (they don't have a fast enough download speed, your server doesn't have a fast enough upload speed, they enabled subtitles, etc), but in almost all of tho…

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