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Lazyman Plex Channel
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Setting to force Plex to Transcode Stream for iOS? #3

Open fkick opened 6 years ago

fkick commented 6 years ago

Hi

I’ve got the plugin working solid in Plex.tv and working on iOS, however, in order to play on iOS devices, you need to click the three little dots, select playback settings, and change the quality from original to a lower quality, ie 720p at 3mbps. This forces Plex to transcode the stream for iOS clients. In earlier releases of Plex iOS there was a global setting to disable direct play and direct stream, however they decided to remove it from the client a few updates ago.

In theory forcing a transcode for the appletv client should work as well (as it had for me last season when again there was a global disable direct play option).

Is it possible to build in an option into the Lazyman plugin to disable direct play/stream so that it’s easier to use with iOS and appletv?

Thanks!

unclenoriega commented 6 years ago

As far as I know, there's no way for a channel to force transcoding. The plugin API is really poorly documented, though, so I'll keep an eye out for a way to do this.