Server Version#: 1.19.4.2902
Player Version#: 4.25.2 (Samsung Q90R)
It seems that the Samsung profile now has a video bitrate limit of 80Mbps, leading to files being transcoded with reasons like “video.bitrate limitation applies: 85622 > 80000”. One of the joys of Plex is that it often gives us control of settings like these, hidden behind the “Advanced Settings” toggle. I’d love to see an option to tweak the allowed max bitrate in the player profile (or even disable it altogether), so that I could ask the server to try direct playing/streaming this file rather than having it transcode (which is doomed to failure given my server specs).
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I’ve been testing my new Q80T and shocked that a 2020 TV has 100Mb Ethernet and not 1000Mb… so that means my 5Ghz wifi has more bandwidth. 
Anyway I’ve noticed a similar limit too, playing the Jellyfish test files, once I hit around 80Mbit it starts to transcode them. But if I play the files via USB the TV handles the 140Mbit H264 files without a problem?
Who is deciding this upper limit? Is it hard coded for the model tv or does the Plex server negotiate this somehow with the player.
It would be nice to adjust any such set limits and let the TV try to direct play higher bandwidth files
@Andrew_Brett where are you seeing the reason message on the plex server logs?
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I believe that the 80Mbps upper limit is hardcoded in the player.
This is what I saw in Plex Media Server.log
Jun 15, 2020 13:35:42.557 [0x7f60837fe700] DEBUG - MDE: Gemini Man (2020): Direct Play is disabled
Jun 15, 2020 13:35:42.557 [0x7f60837fe700] DEBUG - MDE: Gemini Man (2020): media must be transcoded in order to use the dash protocol
Jun 15, 2020 13:35:42.557 [0x7f60837fe700] DEBUG - MDE: Gemini Man (2020): selected audio stream is not the first audio stream and direct play stream selection is not enabled
Jun 15, 2020 13:35:42.557 [0x7f60837fe700] DEBUG - MDE: Gemini Man (2020): no direct play video profile exists for http/mkv/hevc
Jun 15, 2020 13:35:42.557 [0x7f60837fe700] DEBUG - MDE: Gemini Man (2020): no direct play video profile exists for http/mkv/hevc/truehd
Jun 15, 2020 13:35:42.557 [0x7f60837fe700] DEBUG - MDE: Gemini Man (2020): no direct play video profile exists for http/mkv/hevc/ac3
Jun 15, 2020 13:35:42.557 [0x7f60837fe700] DEBUG - Gemini Man - video.bitrate limitation applies: 85622 > 80000
Jun 15, 2020 13:35:42.557 [0x7f60837fe700] DEBUG - Gemini Man - video.bitrate limitation applies: 85622 > 80000
Jun 15, 2020 13:35:42.557 [0x7f60837fe700] DEBUG - MDE: Gemini Man (2020): no remuxable profile found, so video stream will be transcoded
I also have the same problem. In the logs I get maximum bitrate exceeds 80000. But TV seem to play mkvs nicely which goes above 80mbps in some scenes.
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