Plex chooses to transcode video on Nvidia Shield Pro, but not on Roku Streaming Stick+ 2021

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That looks like an incorrect Deep Analysis was performed. You can perform a manual update using the info from this post:

Plex is trying to transcode 4k HEVC files instead of direct play

Plex refers to the analysis to generate the requiredBandwidths entries as Deep Analysis. This runs during the maintenance window scheduled in Settings → Scheduled Tasks. You can force a manual reanalysis via the command line. "C:\Program Files (x86)\Plex\Plex Media Server\Plex Media Scanner.exe" --analyze-deeply --item 173156 Details are in Plex Media Scanner via Command Line. The item number is listed in the XML information for each movie/show/etc. Example: ratingKey="173156" from the XML…