Hey @hthighway. I recognize you! I appreciate your quick responses to several of my threads. However Adjust Automatically is indeed disabled. The root cause is actually due to Plex Media Server being unable to parse the audio-bitrate metadata for EAC3 audio tracks in MKV containers (without a deep analysis anyway). It’s been several years since I pointed it out but I guess it’s not considered a high priority issue
Not having audio-bitrate metadata is fine for most clients. Plex calculates an astronomical bitrate requirement without the properly parsed metadata. Even if it calculates a 2mbps video needs 2gbps of bandwidth it’s fine since the Plex clients usually disregard the bandwidth estimation completely if you set Maximum Remote Quality. However AndroidTV seems to have a hidden Max value of 200mbps that causes such files to transcode instead (both video and audio)
Here is my thread about the missing metadata issue: PMS Can’t Detect MKV Audio Metadata
