Before I even start let me say that I know the suggestion is to put 4k into it own library…

99% of my movies are 1080p and that is my preference for space and quality balance. However, there are a few choice movies that I’ll want a 4k version of. I would rather my users get defaulted to the highest non-4k version but then have the option to select a different version if they were savy enough to do that.

Feels like it shouldn’t be a terribly complicated feature. Have a “include x quality in default version selection”. Or hell for my random case use if I could just manually reorder them I’d be happy.

  • hayander@lemmyngton.auEnglish
    21·
    11 months ago

    I think the only way to do this is as a client setting.

    For example, I have this on iOS but other plex players have this as well.

    However, I’m not sure if this will force a transcode or not

    • bauhaus@lemmy.mlMEnglish
      2·
      11 months ago

      this doesn’t affect version access, this will merely determine whether the version they access with be transcoded or not, which opens up a whole other can of worms.