Hello Plex team,
It would be great if we could sync a specific version of a multi-version media file to the device. Is this a feature that could easily be implemented? With the growing presence of 4K versions, I believe more and more users follow the approach of having a second, lower quality, version of the movie available for remote playing.
Looking forward to hearing your thoughts,
Filipe
Plex team, can we get a response to this question? I would like to be able to encode specific versions of videos to be synced and be able to choose the version on the device. As it stands:
For me, improving this particular feature will be critical to me maintaining my Plex pass subsciprtions
I think as more and more of us being to add 4K content to our Plex libraries, this feature becomes more important. I donāt want to spend CPU energy and time trying to take a 4K HDR file and make it 4mbps 720p for mobile.
For 4K movies I typically have a 720/1080 second copy for streaming remotely, where I can choose which version to watch. We just need that same ability when choosing which version to sync for offline use.
Anything on this yet? I still canāt download an existing smaller optimized version, choosing download starts downloading the original file. Sync was better.
Anything?
We need to be able to download optimized versionās. Android and iOS.
Strongly seconded. Iāve put so much effort into creating transparently transcoded, as-small-as-possible 10-bit HEVC versions of my favorite shows and movies that I want to be able to download those versions to mobile while still defaulting to the original, lossless versions for home theater viewing.
hello?
After more than 4 years, this is becoming more and more annoying. Can we get an update? With new video and audio formats being added to Plex libraries and the in-house default ādownloadā transcoder not managing to work properly with the highest quality (think Dolby Vision e.g.) weāre basically doomed to have multiple libraries to separate the filesā¦ Seems much easier to add a āDownload Versionā and allow users to select the version they want to transcode / download.
This is still needed, 5 years after this suggestion was originally made.
Plex does not always choose the āsmartā source file to download from, so it is important for the user to be able to select the version copy they want. Iām seeing 4K HDR copies manually one-off transcoded to a 1080p copy for download, when a 1080p copy already exists as a separate version in that library item. That is highly wasteful of the serverās resources.
Can we please get a feature where Download function in iOS apps would offer already optimized versions for download, in addition to downloading a custom settings version?
Many of us Optimize media on the Plex server for downloading, and while we can try to Download the same settingsā version in hope that it will use the Optimized version (which doesnāt mostly work), it would be great if we could choose to download already Optimized version. It just makes sense.
Thanks.
On android we have Play Version where you can select a different resolution of video fileā¦ we need to this option as well for downloading a file
5 years later and this still doesnāt work? the āqualityā settings on download options does nothing and the download function makes files bigger, example:
7.2gb 4k movie on my server, use download function in plex android app for kids tablet with quality set to āhighā, it downloads, movie is now 7.7gb ą² _ą²
remove download, change download settings in their app to āmediumā quality, download again, and itās 7.7gb again, still 4k and .5gb bigger than the source
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You need to make sure in Transcoder, under Settings in Plex Web (or through the Dash App) go to āBackground transcoding x264 presetā and make sure it is set to āVery Slowā.
This will give you a higher quality, but smaller file.
Also, if you Optimize a file you can download that optimized version. In the app you want to download it to go to Settings, then Downloads. Make sure the " Quality" is set to your optimized version.
For example I Optimised for Mobile a Bluray Remux file. Then I changed the settings in the app like I mentioned above. Then it downloaded that optimised file. I only know it happened because in the Dash app I did not see my CPU usage go up at all while it was downloading.
iāll look at that, but thatās just dumb if plex makes us create an optimized verison of a file we already have and take up more disc space just to download (and ideally optimize at the time) a verison for the remote device
