Server Version#: 1.21.0.3616 Player Version#: NA 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 …

Edit: apologies… I was too quick posting a wrong reference

I thought there was already a feature request thread for transcoding TO x265/hevc, but I can’t find it. :frowning:

Exactly why I created this thread :slight_smile:

there’s 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] 4…

Couldn’t agree more! What do we need to do? Vote on the threads you’ve 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 it’s 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 :sweat_smile:

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 ‘behind the scenes’, without even intentionally trying to. That said, technology continues to march forward, so difficult things become easier over time.

Feature Request: Native Support for H.265

Feature Suggestions

DaveBinM February 17, 2021, 11:13pm 16

Closing in favour of Transcode to HEVC/x265

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H.265 (HEVC) & H.264 (AVC) Hardware Encoding for use in Plex Media Server Desktops & Laptops server-windows	15	2671	January 8, 2020
[Implemented] H.265 - High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) Plex Support! Feature Suggestions	201	315	July 10, 2020
Transcode to HEVC/x265 Feature Suggestions	264	38786	January 24, 2025
Transcode to HEVC with HW Support (Intel/NVidia) Feature Suggestions	15	1233	June 20, 2021
Transcode to optimize bandwidth/quality (i.e. x265 if it works) General Discussions	13	1449	July 7, 2019

Feature Request: Native Support for H.265

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