Announcing the HEVC (H.265) hardware encoding forum preview! This is a feature that has received a lot of votes over the years and we couldn’t be more excited to start getting some feedback leading up to the general release. If you are wondering what value this provides, HEVC encoding offers a bette…

[image] panni: For any linuxserver/plex (lscr.io) users who run into the same search-this-thread issue like me, searching for docker and not reading properly (my fault, obviously), this is wrong: - CUSTOM_DEB_URL=https://artifacts.plex.tv/plex-media-server-experimental/1.41.1.9065- It work…

Thanks for the clarification! Exiting off-topic mode now and leaving this thread for meaningful updates :slight_smile:

Any news on when the next preview build will be up?

@Kermee You’re in the wrong thread to discuss this. This is HEVC encoding technology preview. @Explorer_200 The team is away this week for company-wide meetings.

Hi, I tried this HEVC preview on my server and I noticed a couple of things: The transcoding process is rather slow to start compared to x264. I know this is just a preview so I’m assuming there’s room for improvement. (My Jellyfin server on the same hardware is way faster for example). Maybe it’…

[image] chris_decker08: That being said unless you have transcoding enabled under dvr settings you are likely recording at original quality and there isn’t much plex can do to improve it. Plex doesn’t give the option to use transcoding other than the transcoding built-in to the tuner if you h…

@nS.Gecko Do you have the server DEBUG logs which capture the start of the HEVC encoding which is slower ?

@dtn25 This encoding preview is confined to the output encoding from the transcoder. Until now, all we would ever get is H.264. This step is about enabling H.265 output. The next step is the Transcoder core upgrade (FFMPEG 6.1 base) After these steps are complete, we can figure out where to u…

I think you misunderstand me. In the first post it explicitly states that HEVC encoding applies to DVR recording. Please note the following: HEVC encoding is limited to hardware encoding only, and thus requires a Plex Pass. It can be used for streaming transcoding, DVR recordings (if Tuner settin…

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dtn25 October 21, 2024, 12:39pm 495

Plex doesn’t give the option to use transcoding other than the transcoding built-in to the tuner if you have an HDHR Extend. Please give us this option. I have it explained more clearly here

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