It sounds like the old auto-adjust setting was able to reduce quality (automatically without user input perhaps?), but it would never raise it after that. This new setting will detect if a video is being streamed that is transcoding at a lower bitrate than Plex can detect the client can handle.
Interestingly, it can also detect if a player is transcoding a super-compressed 1080p file that results in a HIGHER bitrate than the original file, and will offer to change back to the original.
I’d like to know as well whether all clients are going to get these new settings. Specifically, I’d like to know if “Player Experience” settings will make it to the Plex-for-Windows app, since I use that on my personal computer when playing games. I feel like it’s just a temporary oversight that nearly every client got the Player Experience settings except a few. I’d wait patiently for it to get it, but the article itself Player Experience announces upcoming support for iOS and Apple TV, but nothing about the Windows client.
