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Now that we at long last have support for HDR - SDR tone mapping (THANK YOU!!!), are there plans in the near future to natively support h.265 as a transcoding option?
98% of my media is already encoded to h.265, but it would be handy if Plex could do it for me too!
Edit: apologiesā¦ I was too quick posting a wrong reference
I thought there was already a feature request thread for transcoding TO x265/hevc, but I canāt find it. 
Exactly why I created this thread 
thereās a number of them but no exact matches. the one I had linked was focusing on syncing in h265.
Support Direct play HEVC Movie and Transcoding to HEVC (pre-forum migration, 0 votes)
Individual encoding settings for each libraries or media types (e.g. HEVC 4k@60fps) (0 votes)
[implemented] 4K quality options, 4k to 4k transcoding (focus on 4K resolution, not HEVC; 1 vote)
(Feature Request) Profile for the new Apple TV 4K (HEVC/h265 support for Apple TV ā direct play; 0 votes)
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so letās make this an actual feature suggestion 
Couldnāt agree more! What do we need to do? Vote on the threads youāve posted the links for?
I voted for the ones I could, I think 1-2 gave me a forbidden error.
Part of the issue here is that HEVC encoding is incredibly slow compared to AVC. While you can achieve realtime speeds with HW encoding, there would be many processors that would struggle to be able to achieve realtime speeds with a SW encoder, and itās not as widely supported on older devices
I think what everyone wants is HW transcoding TO hevc, when/where the hardware supports it.
On systems that CAN support it, even if it is just 1-2 streams, that would be an incredible savings in upload bandwidth used and/or increase in quality for the same bandwidth.
Yeah, I can understand that, but we also need to have the ability to fall back gracefully should hardware fail, etc. I wish it was a nice simple thing 
Yeah true, often times things that are made to look simple, really are not, and can easily be taken for granted by others not involved ābehind the scenesā, without even intentionally trying to.
That said, technology continues to march forward, so difficult things become easier over time.
I figure if weāre making things seem simple and seamless, weāre doing our jobs well
Why not make it an advanced option and/or PlexPass only option for people who want it? If it fails we can deal with it. It seems like youāre letting perfect be the enemy of good here by preventing a lot of people with capable hardware take advantage of the real world benefits this would provide because itās not going to work for everyone right now.
Hi all,
I would love to have native support for H.265 and I do not understand the technical details why this would be complicated to add. What I do see is that the Plex client on my Xbox X cannot natively run my H.265 4K movies and needs to transcode, which my server does not keep up with.
As a work-around we have VLC installed on the Xbox and that can natively play H.265 4K movies without any delays, but that does not have to great Plex interface.
Also my LG TV cannot natively play H.265 files and need transcoding, I am sure the hardware in the TV could handle a native H.265 codec?
I agree with āmrowā, we could make it optional if that solves issues. Or is there a license issue with using H.265 I do not know about?
How is it that applications like Infuse support both h.264 and h.265 and can fall back to h.264 when it is necessary yet Plex itself does not support such a feature?
Closing in favour of Transcode to HEVC/x265
