There are a lot of options to filter movies, including Resolution, which is great. I would love to see an option to filter movies by Bitrate as well. Kbps and Mbps.
For example:
Bitrate is greater than 16Mbps
or
Bitrate is less than 900Kbps
or
Bitrate is 25Mbps
Bonus if you can add the greater than and less than options to Resolution as well. Right now the option is only Resolution Is…
There’s an existing request for this that has some votes. You’d be better off adding your comments and vote to that thread.
Bitrate and bit depth are a little different. That existing request is more bit depth related. In video bit depth would be related to color and gradation. Like RGB 8bit video or 10bit HDR video. Which would be a cool option to be able to filter by as well. What I’m asking for is bitrate, which is data in bits per second.
Noticed that even in the thread you referenced, the screenshot shows that audio already has a bitrate option. Video does not.
This option is useful if you want to select your higher quality videos since bitrate is the best determining factor for quality. For example, anything over 18Mbps is likely to be a straight off the disc blu-ray copy without additional compression. So being able to say Bitrate greater than 18Mbps, would be a way to filter for those.
In the mean time, take a look at ExportTools (yes, it’s still working)
Excellent for library curation.
Was just working through my library to see which older rips I need to re-rip at higher bitrate for better quality now that my storage and network are quite a bit roomier now and … can’t filter on bitrate. This would be very nice to have as an advanced filter.
But you can sort by bitrate – in the web app at least.
I’m not really sure why browsing titles by bitrate was deemed more useful than filtering by bitrate but… you’re right, it’s an alternative option that sorta works but doesn’t negate the request. I think filtering is more useful than sorting for a library maintenance\management function.
What I wanted to create - that led me here and similar feature requests in the past - was a smart collection to help me work through the hundreds of movies I’m looking at re-encoding in this case; replacing older 1080p\4K rips with newer higher quality (larger) 1080p\4K rips. If it was just a matter of replacing SD with HD or HD with UHD that’s easy enough with resolution filters so having this bitrate option in filters is just more granular control. The smart collection based on bitrate (and some other filters) would automatically remove titles as I replaced them with higher bitrate encodes so it’d act as my working collection over the very long time period re-encoding hundreds of movies will take. That’d be a lot easier doing it that way than having to resort my library each time I come back to it and track it all outside of Plex.
Plus it’d probably be particularly useful for the music library to have this filter as bitrate is a much more common quality check there than it is for video format (that tend to use resolution more).
Sorting is a work around to expose bitrate of titles in a way… but to my mind it’s not very useful. Plex has been updating filters lately with more options, maybe this one can be added as well.
For what it’s worth, I was in your situation, and had an LLM write my some Python scripts to export sheets as HTML which I can sort/filter, to get a good glance at what I need exactly. In a 2nd step, another script to add films with some resolution/bitrate/whatever threshold automatically to e.g. Radarr. Using an LLM is certainly not popular for a variety of reasons, but it’s a way to get quick access to exactly the info you crave (these scripts are written very fast)
Best Regards
The CSV export in WebTools NG is also still working.
Feature Request topic: “This would be helpful to do in Plex because it’s not there now and I don’t want to use a different tool for it”.
Response: “Use a different tool”
The other tools aren’t wrong or bad… I just don’t want a different tool for this, thus supporting feature request and explaining my use case to have it doable in Plex. 
Fair and understandable. From my perspective, even in perfect conditions a feature request won’t be implemented within weeks, so it’s just an in the meantime-“solution” to fix it now
This request is 7 years old now.
Not a lot of votes though so obviously not many folks asking for it or missing it.
I was just trying to do this thing recently and ran into this limitation which I thought was odd to be missing and found this request and figured I’d bump it for some visibility after voting for it - particularly as Plex has been adding some new filter options recently.
The new API access does make scripting this stuff out easier for us to do ourselves - just part of my job involves managing SAS and the trend to “do it yourself with our published API - it’s a feature!” is personally exhausting. 
