PMS Version: 1.23.6.4881 PMP Version: 8.20.1.26670 Platform (Windows/macOS/Embedded RPi/Embedded Intel): Android Google Pixel 4a I have a problem, sometimes when I read a movie, plex starts to transcode the movie. It transcodes it from H264 to H264. The film is in .mkv. Direct reading and dire…

There’s a number of technical parameters that influence if a file can be played directly or not. In your particular case that seems to be related to some of the encoding parameters of the h264 video. The video is encoded using “high” baseline while the player/profile only supports “baseline”. Tha…

Transcoding problem

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FordGuy61 August 1, 2021, 5:43pm 3

FYI, looks like your running into this bug:

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