/r/Plex's Moronic Mondays' No Stupid Questions Thread - 2022-09-12

• MediaInfoLib

  61 590 9.2 C++

  Convenient unified display of the most relevant technical and tag data for video and audio files.

  

Is it only one show this is happening for, or is it everything/most things? If it's only a subset of items, can you post the full media info (video/audio/subtitle format, either via Get Info or a third-party tool like MediaInfo)? Also, knowing what Plex is trying to do with the file when you play it at original quality would be helpful. The expanded Now Playing section of the dashboard should show you what's going on. Without that info it's hard to answer your questions, but in general,

• Tautulli

  419 5,354 8.6 Python

  A Python based monitoring and tracking tool for Plex Media Server.

  

Is your friend's Shield set to play original quality? It defaults to 2Mbps for remote connections, and has to be changed per-client. Outside of that, you would need to check the dashboard or Tautulli to see what Plex is doing with the file, or dig into the server logs to see why Plex is deciding to transcode.

• WorkOS

  workos.com sponsored

  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

• nvidia-patch

  309 2,939 8.6 Python

  This patch removes restriction on maximum number of simultaneous NVENC video encoding sessions imposed by Nvidia to consumer-grade GPUs.

Any NVIDIA card with NVDEC/NVENC should work, though the specific model will determine what codecs can be decoded (Plex encodes everything to H.264 when transcoding, which almost all cards support). The one downside of non-quadro cards is that most are limited to 3 concurrent encodes (see NVIDIA's support matrix here), so you have to manually patch your driver if you want to support more than 3 hardware-accelerated transcodes at the same time.

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