Coming here from another thread that’s a year old now with zero responses I’d like to see this feature implemented as well, simply because material I have can be easily direct-streamed using other apps (like VLC) while Plex (my everyday video hub) tries to transcode effectively resulting in unplayable video (CPU not powerful enough)
Make it a config-file toggle that nobody can change from the UI, I don’t care. But please let power users make this adjustment