Videos: Support Custom Transcoding for Downloads #2469

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opened 2026-02-20 01:12:03 -05:00 by deekerman · 0 comments

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2026-02-20 01:12:03 -05:00

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Originally created by @TheBigSasha on GitHub (Jan 11, 2026).

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I checked this request against the roadmap and existing issues

What Problem Does This Solve and Why Is It Valuable?

I have a lot of large hires videos in my photoprism library and I love the experience of browsing them.

To conserve space and bandwidth, I set Photoprism's transcoder to encode to a very low resolution (720p).

I want to sometimes share these video clips in an intermediate resolution (1080p or 4k), but not the original full bitrate / res. Share res != browse res != original res

What Solution Would You Like?

I'd like to "transcode on demand" to a custom quality level as an additional sharing option for videos. The way I see this working is

User clicks "share (custom resolution)" or maybe when they click share there's a choice of original | 720p | custom
User gets a dialog with a choice of resolution (let's say 360p upto the media's original res), maybe a slider for bitrate, and some FPS choices. If we're being really fancy, maybe the option to do tonemapping HDR->SDR. If a simple UI is desirable, a simple choice of 360 | 720 | 1080 | 4k | 8k | original would be nice too
User selects settings they like and a loading indicator comes up (transcoding)
Transcoded video is saved to the user's device

What Alternatives Have You Considered?

Download whatever lowres clip is in photoprism

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Originally created by @TheBigSasha on GitHub (Jan 11, 2026). ### Confirmation - [x] I checked this request against the roadmap and existing issues ### What Problem Does This Solve and Why Is It Valuable? I have a lot of large hires videos in my photoprism library and I love the experience of browsing them. To conserve space and bandwidth, I set Photoprism's transcoder to encode to a very low resolution (720p). I want to sometimes share these video clips in an intermediate resolution (1080p or 4k), but not the original full bitrate / res. Share res != browse res != original res ### What Solution Would You Like? I'd like to "transcode on demand" to a custom quality level as an additional sharing option for videos. The way I see this working is - User clicks "share (custom resolution)" or maybe when they click share there's a choice of `original | 720p | custom` - User gets a dialog with a choice of resolution (let's say 360p upto the media's original res), maybe a slider for bitrate, and some FPS choices. If we're being really fancy, maybe the option to do tonemapping HDR->SDR. If a simple UI is desirable, a simple choice of `360 | 720 | 1080 | 4k | 8k | original` would be nice too - User selects settings they like and a loading indicator comes up (transcoding) - Transcoded video is saved to the user's device ### What Alternatives Have You Considered? Download whatever lowres clip is in photoprism ### Additional Context _No response_