Con todo el resperto, no estoy de acuerdo contigo.
"Providing the perfect stream
Direct Play, Direct Stream, and Transcoding are designed to provide the perfect media to your device, regardless of what it is. It works like this:
The App Understands the Device
A Plex App understands the device it’s working on. It knows the ideal media resolution, whether it can handle a particular audio format (Dolby Digital, DTS, etc.), and what file format it prefers. When the App connects to a Server, it tells the Server about itself, so the Server knows how to tailor media sent to it.
Direct Play
If an App tells the Server that it has capabilities that exactly match the file you want to watch, the file can be sent to the App exactly as-is, so the work done by the Server is almost zero.
Direct Stream
If an App tells the Server that it is capable of handling the video and audio streams in the source file, but it can’t handle the file container (.mkv, .avi, etc), the Server will copy the streams into a new compatible container and send that to the App. There’s a little more work required by the Server but not a lot."
En resumidas cuentas, si la app de reproducción está en un aparato que reproduce el formato del archivo (resolución, audio, etc.) no se transcodifica.
Un saludo