# Force remote streams to HEVC

**URL:** <https://forums.plex.tv/t/force-remote-streams-to-hevc/722660>\
**Category:** Plex Media Server\
**Tags:** server-linux\
**Created:** [June 15, 2021, 6:23am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/force-remote-streams-to-hevc/722660 "2021-06-15T06:23:40Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![dewitpj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@dewitpj](https://forums.plex.tv/u/dewitpj)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2021, 6:23am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/force-remote-streams-to-hevc/722660/1 "2021-06-15T06:23:40Z")

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Server Version#: 1.31.1.2262-74fdc6b7  
Player Version#: 1.23.2.4656

Is there a way to force encoding remote streams to HEVC - I have 3 Nvidia cards that have hardware support (detected by Plex)

Pretty please !

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**Author:** ![FordGuy61](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/22d042/32.png) [@FordGuy61](https://forums.plex.tv/u/FordGuy61)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2021, 7:02am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/force-remote-streams-to-hevc/722660/2 "2021-06-15T07:02:11Z")

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Vote:

> [@Transcode to HEVC/x265](https://forums.plex.tv/t/transcode-to-hevc-x265/360421):
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> Is the ability to transcode to HEVC/x265 something that’s on the roadmap? Most, possibly all, of the people I share my library with use playback devices which support HEVC playback. I’ve got a very beefy Xeon processor with more cores than I have fingers in my server that is perfectly capable of transcoding a couple streams to HEVC. It would be nice if there was an advanced option, or maybe a feature for PlexPass subscribers, to enable transcoding to HEVC for devices that support it to increase…

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**Author:** ![dewitpj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@dewitpj](https://forums.plex.tv/u/dewitpj)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2021, 7:03am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/force-remote-streams-to-hevc/722660/3 "2021-06-15T07:03:17Z")

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Nice - done 🙂

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/2/a/2acb9765406f63293d357b4ec509ec39aa28f2ad.png) [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)\
**Post date:** [September 13, 2021, 7:03am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/force-remote-streams-to-hevc/722660/4 "2021-09-13T07:03:45Z")

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