Thanks for the information.
For some reason, Plex thinks 1917 requires 88.776 Mbps of bandwidth, which is excessive for a Blu-ray rip (If I’m reading the logs correctly, it looks like a 1080p Blu-ray rip).
My rip of the same movie is ~37 Mbps.
To verify, can you analyze the 1917 movie using MediaInfo? What does it show for the video bandwidth? See example below.
Also, pull the XML information for the file and post it to the thread. That will show how Plex has analyzed the file. To save the web page, right click in the window and choose “save as.” Then zip the .xml file. The forum does not support XML attachments. See example below.
Comparing the information from Media Info and the Plex XML info will show if Plex is analyzing the movie correctly.
If this is going in the direction I think it is, there are a couple of ways to attack it.
One is to find out if Plex mis-analyzed the movies and correct it. This basically involves Plex Dancing the movies. That will force Plex to re-analyze them.
I’ve had Plex mis-analyze movies on my system. To correct the info, Plex has to perform a deep analysis of the movie, which occurs as a scheduled task. There might be a better way, but the only way I know to make that happen is to Plex Dance the movie. Choosing “Analyze” from the “three dots” menu for the movie does not perform the deep analysis.
A second way to go at things is definitely a workaround and can cause other problems.
Basically, tell Plex you have a larger Internet connection than you really do. Increase the setting for Internet Upload Speed to something higher than 100 Mbps. Try 120 or 150 or 0 (no limit). Then play a movie and see if it direct plays. Also, check the log files for the Streaming Resource: Bandwidth exceeded message.
This is definitely not the best solution. It can cause issues if you’ve multiple people streaming remotely.
That’s everything I can think of right now.
Example MediaInfo Analysis
Summary
Video
ID : 1
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : High@L4.1
Format settings : CABAC / 4 Ref Frames
Format settings, CABAC : Yes
Format settings, Reference frames : 4 frames
Codec ID : V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC
Duration : 1 h 58 min
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 33.2 Mb/s
Maximum bit rate : 37.2 Mb/s
Width : 1 920 pixels
Height : 1 080 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate mode : Constant
Frame rate : 23.976 (24000/1001) FPS
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.669
Stream size : 27.6 GiB (88%)
Language : English
Default : Yes
Forced : No
Partial XML info showing Plex bandwidth analysis:
Part accessible="1" exists="1" id="164475" key="/library/parts/164475/1588493470/file.mkv" duration="7138144" file="/Movies/1917 (2019)/1917 (2019).mkv" size="33541765201" container="mkv" deepAnalysisVersion="4" indexes="sd" requiredBandwidths="42075,41476,40714,40265,40069,39873,38703,38638" videoProfile="high"
