So I bought a lifetime subscription to plex… decide to try out sync, and since I have all of my files at a certain quality that makes them pretty light weight, I figure… hey, why not try sync?
This seems broken. Original still ends up transcoding files (or attempting to) that play just fine on my mobile device without being transcoded. Cmon plex… it’s been years… people bring this up constantly!
Usual rules apply even for “lightweight” videos.
If the client cannot play the specific combination of container (mkv, mp4, mov, avi…), audio/video/subtitle codecs (h264, h265 / AC3, DTS, aac, mp3… / srt, pgs, vobsub…) and other parameters (# of channels, base level, bitrates…) directly, your Plex Media Server will transcode the video to a level the client can deal with.
Odd, because the client can’t seem to play what the device can play natively? The file plays fine even within Plex Android client at original quality… Just seems that sync ALWAYS wants to transcode…no matter what… Even if original quality is chosen.
I read the other threads and this once again looks like a very low priority for Plex devs.
If you select “Original”, mp4 files with h264/mpeg4 video and stereo aac audio will sync without needing to be converted.
It is a known limitation of the existing implementation of Sync that some files direct play but need to be converted before they’re synced. We’d love to address this limitation in the future but it will require a significant rewrite of the feature so we can’t provide an ETA on when that will happen.
That seems accurate. That’s what I was saying though. This has been the way it is for quite a while - years, and no one seems to have any plan to change or fix it. I don’t understand why “original” doesn’t just copy the file to the client device…
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