I'm not sure this is the right place, but I figured most of you would be using Plex, whereas not many redditors at the Plex subreddit would be on Android TV.
I'm trying to get Plex to stream the original file to the Shield TV, without transcoding. I can get Plex to stream smaller files (1 - 2 GB) without issues, but it tries to transcode my larger files (around 6 GB). The codecs seem to be identical, so that's probably not it.
Kodi with PleXBMC runs everything fine, but I prefer Plex' leanback UI. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Can you tell us what settings you have set in the Plex client on the Shield?
Additionally, can you post the file media info? I use mediainfo to get this.
And finally, your bandwidth?