Do you have somewhere I could get more information?
Most of my video files are mkv, encoded as MPEG, and audio is AC3 5.1, but I’m only playing audio through my TV speakers, so maybe it’s transcoding for my cheap 2-speaker setup? I also typically enable subtitles, which I think can cause transcoding.
I’ve enabled Direct Stream wherever I could find it, but it didn’t seem to have any effect.
That’s an amazing writeup. Thanks! I’ll take a look.