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 …

Feature Request: Native Support for H.265

DaveBinM February 17, 2021, 11:13pm 16

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