Title: Force encode or change default quality
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Force encode or change default quality

 *  Resolved [mickekring](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mickekring/)
 * (@mickekring)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/force-encode-or-change-default-quality/)
 * Hi!
 * First of all, thanks for a great plugin. It’s one of a kind!
 * I use your plugin with FFMPEG to encode videos but I have a problem. I’ll try
   to explain.
 * Our users use iPads and iPhones to make movies with and then upload to our site.
   Depending on iPad/iPhone version, most users upload 720p mov files. The problem
   is that your plugin seems only to look at the size of the movie, so it won’t 
   encode 720p.mov to 720p.mp4 with h.264 headers for streaming, which means we 
   have to wait for the whole movie to download.
    I’ve set the settings to encode
   videos to 360p and 720p. And since the plugin choose the highest quality, this
   is a problem that I haven’t found a solution to.
 * My question is; is there a possibility to force the encode even though it’s the
   same resolution. The second (which might be easier), is there somewhere in the
   code that I can change the player to choose the lowest quality (we encode to 
   360p as well, which is enough) for playback?
 * Thank you!
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 * Last activity: [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/force-encode-or-change-default-quality/)
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