Playing a Plex live channel from outside the LAN always came back as a full
re-encode at the server's highest transcode tier (20 Mbps 1080p on the
reporter's server), no matter which quality the app was set to. The Plex live
path never sent a ceiling: a live source has no bitrate the server can check
against its remote-stream limit, so a remote session without a client cap
falls onto the server's own top tier. On the LAN the server remuxes anyway,
which hid the gap.
The live stream path now reads the same saved preset the library path and
the Jellyfin live path (#2198) already honor. Original is unchanged: a remux
(directStream=1) with no ceiling. A capped preset pins directStream=0 and
sends the bitrate limitation clause plus the videoResolution/videoQuality caps
so the encode lands at the chosen tier rather than the server's. The preset is
session state, so a recovery re-tune keeps the cap.
directPlay stays 0: a tuned Plex session is only reachable through the
transcoder's HLS output, so "no re-encode" on live means a remux, not direct
play. Capped sessions use the h264-only TS target because every codec in the
target becomes an encode output once directStream is off, and HEVC into TS is
the #1859 corruption; the broadcast-codec live target remains the Original
remux menu.
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