File Preference Order of Plex Playback

Is there info anywhere that describes how Plex describes which video file to play first?

I’d like to be able to have highly compressed versions of my movies with x265 + HE-AAC but also to have x264 + LC-AAC versions.

The smaller x265 + HE-AAC versions would ideally be chosen first to reduce bandwidth requirements while the larger x264 + LC-AAC versions would only be used by devices that don’t support x265/HE-AAC.

Unfortunately, it seems like Plex chooses the largest file first regardless of codec, assuming it’s higher quality when that’s often not the case if the smaller file is using a better codec.

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