The Plex Media Player desktop application's default quality setting is in different places depending on the interface you're using. The Plex Web UI is used as a point-and-click interface, whereas the Plex Media Player TV UI is used as a remote-friendly interface.
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Want to change quality for a single playback session? Skip down to Troubleshooting.
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If you don't know how much bandwidth you have, visit https://fast.com and it'll tell you.
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Click Settings up in the top-right corner.
- Click Quality in the left-hand navigation menu.
- Choose a default quality that's better than the stock configuration of 2 Mbps. For the bandwidth-impaired, keep this number below 80% of your max speed. For everyone else, I suggest 8, 10, or 12 Mbps.
- Ensure that Play smaller videos at original quality is checked, and then click SAVE CHANGES.
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If you don't know how much bandwidth you have, visit https://fast.com and it'll tell you.
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Highlight and then select, or click on your user portrait.
- Open Settings.
- In settings, open Video, then Remote Quality.
- In Remote Quality, choose a default quality that's better than the stock configuration of 2 Mbps. For the bandwidth-impaired, keep this number below 80% of your max speed. For everyone else, I suggest 8, 10, or 12 Mbps.
Get lots of stops/starts, or buffering a lot? Try lowering the quality. To temporily adjust quality for a single playback session, follow these steps.
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- Open the playback Settings for the video you're watching.
- Click on the current playback quality and choose a new one from the list.
- Navigate to the onscreen settings icon while your video is playing and click or select it.
- Select/click Quality from the list of settings, and then choose and quality from the list and select/click on it, then back out of the settings menu.
@RulerOf Thanks, that's the same scenario for me. I wouldn't have an opportunity to fork and maintain.
Time to maintain will remain an unknown, depending on any screenshots that need to get redone because Plex decides to make UI changes.
Just recently, I noticed that the whole search functionality was changed for Plex Web. If I have any enlightenments about new Plex user onboarding, I'll post back.